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Travel Blogs from Dongguan
Guangzhou
... and accommodation, we soon calculated that it was in fact a Saturday and therefore peak hour would thankfully be avoided. Getting pointed in a general direction, we found the metro and it was a short ride to our nearest stop. Another short walk, through streets lined with Christmas decorations and food vendors, we'd made it. Although Guangzhou (known in the West as Canton) is the third largest city in China, it does not have any major tourism draw cards so we ...
The Long Way Home
... about lunchtime on Thursday Nov 29 and arrived home Sunday Dec 2. Our itinery had been altered but none of us had actually realised until we arrived in Orlando ready to fly off into the sunset. We were not getting back for another 24 hours after our original schedule. Wow!! What a shock and the pain didn't stop there. Unlike our trip over, we hit a snag at each airport which found us spending quite a few more hours standing around waiting for things to be corrected ...
Feeding MY ZODIAC
... step in unpredictable circumstances, I would not be afraid to explore the new and the unusual.
I can only think of those times back in 2002, when I won the respect of a populace, ...
12 hours in Guangzhou
... The thing is, it was still before 8 in the morning so even though there were shops around, absolutely nothing was open. We were getting a bit weary when we found a nice cafe that had free wifi, cafe latte and a decent view of the street below us. What more could we ask for? We sat and recharged our batteries for more than an hour while we watched people scurrying along heading for work. Access to wifi meant access to maps. I worked out that we were only a ten minute ...
Guangzhou.Another day, A completely different city
... in 2010. Mark Hemel, the architect that together with his partner Barbara Kuit designed the Guangzhou TV tower, comments, ″Where most skyscrapers bear ′male′ features; being introvert, strong, straight, rectangular, and based on repetition, we wanted to create a ′female′ tower being complex, transparent, curvy and gracious.″ ″ it certainly is that!!
For a sum of 150 Yuan (Aus$21) you asend by lift a total of ...