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Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by ryness

... about us, there was some confusion. We wanted to sit so I pointed at the only free table. It was one of those massive round tables that seats eight people with a lazy Susan in the middle. She didn't look to keen on plonking two people there. She spotted something else that appealed to her more. A clothless table around the corner, near the toilets, next to the kitchen and laundry, but available. To be honest, despite feeling a little ostracised, we weren't too bothered ...

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

Am I really that difficult to resist? Or is there a certain natural magnetic air of authority in me that confirms my prestige as warm-hearted yet fearsome? These are just few lines from my personality metre as the 3rd animal sign… the TIGER.

12 hours in Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by guykb

So, we had this rather long layover in transit in Guangzhou. We could have chosen just to sit around the airport for 12 hours but hey - there's a place to explore we've never been before just waiting for us. I wasn't sure whether they would let us through immigration because you normally have to have a visa already before you get to China but in Australia they gave us an application for a 24 hour visa. They told us we might be allowed in. As it turned out we didn't need ...

Guangzhou.Another day, A completely different city

A travel blog entry by mauza

... 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 ...