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Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by ryness

... were so hungry and other prospects seemed dim. She whipped open the scrunched table cloth that sat on the small two-person table and gave us crockery and chop sticks. They knew what was going to come next was going to be a challenge so they stood as a team, poised to decipher our order. They handed us the menu again. It was covered back and front with Chinese. All we could read where the prices. We really only knew the names of three dishes in Mandarin, so we tried our ...

The Long Way Home

A travel blog entry by trish_paul

Nov 26 - Dec 2 We still had many things to do and people to catch up with that the next few days was all gogogo!!! So in between Joe's continued tour guiding duties, he managed to get in a couple of ocean fishing trips and a quick bit of snook fishing off this rather high bridge. We ate the 'pompano' fish he caught and it was delicious. Emma and I had a girl's night out organised at 'Bone Fish' where they had martini happy hour and some very yummy nibbles. One of the ...

Feeding MY ZODIAC

A travel blog entry by annierose

... to curb, My seemingly endless supply of energy makes me appear a bit dramatic and it makes me more sensitive to cautious or down-to-earth approaches in others.

Yes, I can be ...

12 hours in Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by guykb

... the guidebooks but it is quite pretty in its alleyways and the river provides a focus. We strolled along the riverside towards a wharf where you can catch a ferry to the other side for the princely sum of half a yuan (about 7 cents) or to the university, which is a ten minutes ride upstream for 1 yuan. So that's what we did. It was a great trip and when we got to the other end we stayed on the ferry and came right back to where we started. It was lunch time and Guangzhou ...

Guangzhou.Another day, A completely different city

A travel blog entry by mauza

... city is so dense .. the wide Pearl river snakes through it's centre.. have decided this city has more to explore and find than the couple of city bound days spent wandering .. a few guided tours being the easiest option..
Back on ground level it is to see some of the wholesale Xmas wares.. my gosh.. one needs a container next visit! Street after street full of various merchants.. all eager to sell sell sell...
Haizhu Square area had not only the ...