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A day of walking, Guangzhou, China travel blog

A day of walking

A travel blog entry by katemel

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... , 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou-Adoption City

A travel blog entry by yeats_t

... 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..., Guangzhou, China travel blog

Ya Sure Do Got A Purdy Mouth...

A travel blog entry by dogeleven

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... , 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Crossing the border- I don't think we're in Kansas

A travel blog entry by iyavor

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Happiness is Just a Streetcorner Away

A travel blog entry by dogeleven

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... . 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Shopping in Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by yyztrvlr

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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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Cantonese capital city

A travel blog entry by agi_and_rudi

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Our first taste of China

A travel blog entry by michael_lizi

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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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Goodbye Keith and Val

A travel blog entry by katemel

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... 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), Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou to Enping area (Judy's ancestoral home)

A travel blog entry by noalarmclocks

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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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by ruudbatta

By train to Guangzhou, big city in the south. One of China's trading ...

Guangzhou - first stop in my Chinese Escapade., Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou - first stop in my Chinese Escapade.

A travel blog entry by adrianmurray

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 ...

Stop in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Stop in Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by koaclarck

A few pics of our stop in ...

On our way to Vietnam, Guangzhou, China travel blog

On our way to Vietnam

A travel blog entry by weebleandbob

... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Baby Prams

A travel blog entry by jkirby

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... 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, Guangzhou (Canton), China travel blog

Home Sweet Home

A travel blog entry by cmj

... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

China Trade Society Study Trip to Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by steibock79

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... 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 !!, Guangzhou, China travel blog

First business trip to Guangzhou !!

A travel blog entry by mcafee1990

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... ; 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

To Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by katemel

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... 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, GuangZhou, China travel blog

Flying from Beijing toi Hanoi

A travel blog entry by peacefrog

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Marinating in Mediocrity

A travel blog entry by dogeleven

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Made in China

A travel blog entry by mjlankers

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by jamesandruth

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Travel from Hainan Island to Macau

A travel blog entry by travelbee

... 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, Guilin and Guangzhou, China travel blog

Pigging out in Guangdong and Guangxi

A travel blog entry by wander

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... 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 ...

Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by ninaversteeg

Guangzhou ...

Paddy's Field & the Tekila, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Paddy's Field & the Tekila

A travel blog entry by mbryred

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... 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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Mar 25, 2011

A travel blog entry by cellordoor

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Beginning of the ImaginativeTraveler adv. tour, Guangzhou, China travel blog

Beginning of the ImaginativeTraveler adv. tour

A travel blog entry by gojoadventures

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, Guangzhou, China travel blog

A Very Long Month

A travel blog entry by mbryred

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... 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 ...

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