Guangzhou
Travel Blogs from Guangzhou, China
A day of walking
... , while Nana and Pa talked to the Canadian couple. We went into a building that was meant to be set up like a home in Guangzhou one hundred years ago. There was lots of old furniture from 100 years ago. We went into more buildings with hand fans, ...
Guangzhou-Adoption City
... babies, anyway before we know it we are about the only table in the whole area without our own chinese baby. Long story short, Guangzhou and in particular this little island of Shamian Dao seems to be adoption city, don't get me wrong this is a good ...
Ya Sure Do Got A Purdy Mouth...
... , ladies and gentlemen, and I have to say, it is a city unlike the others I've seen in China. Where Dalian and Beijing were concrete jungles, Guangzhou is... jungle. This city is lush; verdant; overflowing with flora (and its more than generous helping of ...
Crossing the border- I don't think we're in Kansas
... over to the Guanzhou Chabad, using the little card given to me by the Chabad rabbi in Hong Kong. I arrived to find Guangzhou chabad open, but without any Rabbis or versions thereof, only Chinese workers doing remodeling. I sat down and read, and within ...
Happiness is Just a Streetcorner Away
... . I began looking around at other signs for amusement and stopped dead in my tracks at a large banner. It declared " The 20th Guangzhou International Food Festival". Booyah! My day was made. After stuffing myself for a bit, I spent the rest of the day ...
Shopping in Guangzhou
The night train took us into Guangzhou about 9 and fortunately our hotel was ready for us so we could check in immediately, shower and then head out to meet Luke's cousin for lunch. With lunch wrapped up they took us for a quick tour of the old city ...
Cantonese capital city
... looks older. There is more of Chinese soul and life. There are not so much car horns on the streets. The speciality of Guangzhou is dim sum (dumplings) so we follow Lonely Planet's advice and go to the Pinxi Restaurant that is popular for its excellent ...
Our first taste of China
We chose Guangzhou as our first destination in China because it was close to Bangkok and the flight was cheap! But our first day of exploring found some nice sights. We caught the ferry to Shaiman Island and had a lovely hour strolling around ...
Goodbye Keith and Val
... upset at having to leave and both had tears in their eyes. Mum and I walked back to our hotel through the park. All around Guangzhou are these big statues - just near our hotel we must have seen 20 of them. Some were kids playing marbles, playing Paper, ...
Guangzhou to Enping area (Judy's ancestoral home)
What an exciting day we had! Judy had fun negotiating the taxi fare from Guangzhou to a little village 2 1/2 hours away so we could visit the home built about 75 years ago by her great grandmother and mother. (safe driver, seat belts, ...
Guangzhou - first stop in my Chinese Escapade.
19/3 - 23/3 GUANGZHOU, CHINA (PLUS A SMIDGEON OF BANGKOK) Well I did make it in to the Foreign Correspondants Club in Bangkok on my last night. But budget travellers being budget travellers, we decided that the exhorbitant pricing structure ($2 for ...
On our way to Vietnam
... train to Nanning - First class of course!We arrived at Guangzhou East station and had to make our way via the subway to Guangzhou station for our sleeper train. You think the subway would be easy to use but once again, everything was in Chinese ...
Baby Prams
... are in the process of adopting Chinese babies, a process that generally requires prospective parents to spend a month in Guangzhou." Now that I've stayed there two nights, I see them everywhere. There are dozens of 30 to 40ish ...
Home Sweet Home
... and unfortunately I don't speak more than 5 words of Cantonese. But it's still a little bit special to me to come to Guangzhou and see a couple million people that look peculiarly like my extended family. I wasn't sure how long I wanted to spend in ...
China Trade Society Study Trip to Guangzhou
... important industrial city ranked right after Beijing and Shanghai as the 3rd most important city of Mainland China. Besides Shanghai, there is another stock exchange in Guangzhou as well. Our first stop was at the Zhongshan University. The campus of ...
First business trip to Guangzhou !!
... ; I have been assured it is very easy to get too, so go check it out and tell me how it was :) Highlights of Guangzhou included: Pearl river tour: Oscar and I took this boat trip in the evening after walking around the markets all day, the light show ...
To Guangzhou
... seater minivan to take us to the airport in. It was about 1 ½ drive and mum slept most of the way. We caught the plane to Guangzhou and mum slept most of the way. We caught two taxis to the Victory Hotel - Mum didn't sleep but once we got checked in and ...
Flying from Beijing toi Hanoi
... the airport. There we discovered that our fligh was via GuangZhou. OK. Then the flight was late. In GuangZhou was our actual leaving out from tyhe borders of China, so we had to get off the plane and go through customs... and we finally made it outside ...
Marinating in Mediocrity
... that feature. It's better than clicking, trust. And now for something completely different... Not really. Same old trip. Still in Guangzhou. We went to the post office today. Isn't that thrilling? Barely a week ago I was taking late night plane ...
Made in China
... or use anything electronic you, most likely, are using a product produced in or filtered through the Guangdong province of China - which Guangzhou heads as its capitol. If you don't do any of these things, please re-read... :) We arrived Guangzhou ...
Guangzhou
... and publically hack up and spit on the floor. ( which is quite disgusting) I don't think we have seen everything in Guangzhou I don't think we quite got our heads around it. I think we wanted to be a little more relaxed due to the hectic ...
Travel from Hainan Island to Macau
... hour flight to Guangzhou and then a 2.5 bus ride to the border. We did have some time to check out Shamian Island in Guangzhou which is a peaceful stop with nice trees and that's about it. I guess it's a really great place compared to the rest ...
Pigging out in Guangdong and Guangxi
... our luggage at the baiyun intl airport, we took the airport shuttle into the town centre. guangzhou is known to be the food capital of china so we wasted no time in checking out the recommended restaurants and street food. had lunch at ...
Paddy's Field & the Tekila
... food and again lots of expats, as we are called. Our waiter was even a nice young Mexican with whom we exchanged some words in Spanish. All in all, it was a great day of good international food and fun international companionship, in Guangzhou China. ...
Mar 25, 2011
Beginning of the ImaginativeTraveler adv. tour
We joined a group of 16 others, plus our tour guide Lisa, for a guided tour of mainland China. This was like a vacation from our vacation. We didn't have to worry about any logistics. Transportation tickets were handed to us as needed. Hotel rooms ...
A Very Long Month
... 310 RMB/$50), and spend three nights there at Trippers Diem. They have arranged a sleeper bus for our trip back to Guangzhou, which promises to be an experience. We each teach 23 classes x 40 minutes, each a week. Our classes are ...

