InterContinental Shenzhen

... the Table Tennis Table are what must be often looked for. Let's take a closer look at each point and consider how one must select the best type of billiards pool table they want.
The size of the Billiard Table is a very important factor. But before considering the size of the billiards pool table, you ought to measure the room you are planning to keep the table. Once you ...

... to Hong Kong and spent some time wandering around Kowloon, and later up on Hollywood Road looking at impressive, expensive Chinese antiquities and art.

Dinner at Ye Shanghai in the Pacific Centre down stairs - coincidentally we ate at the same restaurant in Shanghai a couple of years back. Very nice food - maybe cantonesed a bit.
Hong Kong, China clgs

We are now in Hong Kong! Today we got to see Jackie Chan's house! Yes, thats right THE JACKIE CHAN! My idle! We wanted to drop in for tea but the bus driver wouldn't stop. Last night we saw a lazer light show over the harbour. It was very neat. Today we took a water taxi ride in Aberdeen. There were fishing vessels and house boats everywhere! We also climbed Victoria Peek. We saw the ...

... East station to Kowloon in Hong Kong. If you have ever wondered what would happen if eastern and western culture mixed well together and became a city, it would be Hong Kong. It is an island and a world all its own. If you can't get there by foot you can use the subway. The island has buildings half the size of the mountain. It's very impressive. People walk around and give each other space like in the west and say ...

... in the toilet cubicle.. so we rush off to the bathrooms we were in.. and wait for the toilet cubicle in question (its engaged and seems to be taking a particularly long time).. after waiting and waiting we decide to cheak if anyone is in the toilet.. and theres not. Right.. so .. kelsey tries to fit underneath but the gap is very narrow (at this point in time we are getting some very strange looks as ...

... as we are a few minutes late. He further ordered the taxi driver to take me directly to the airport and not to leave the passenger (me) anywhere. I was really touched by their concerns. The taxi driver was forced to take me to the airport at my price at HKD130 as he was ordered. As I also have a compassionate conscience, I paid the driver the right price as I gave him an additional USD20 which he didn't expect. I said this is for the hospitality of all the people in Hongkong!

... of Wisdom sculpture that was further up the mountain. It is a modern sculpture of an ancient religious text. The words are carved into enormous tree trunks that have been split in half and arranged in a figure eight infinity symbol on the side of the mountain. A path runs through them, and there were birds singing and the sun started to come out. Even though there were people there, it was very peaceful and beautiful. I think it might be ...

... I wasn`t robbed like I thought, although my massage didn`t last 3 hours and I had to tip way too much. The worst part was that my room didn`t lock. I hate that feeling of being unsafe, but I had to stay there, because it was midnight and would be far more unsafe to wander the streets. I`m not going to go into details about what happened. It wasn`t too bad, just a little scary. It could have been much worse.

Shenzhen, or at least the parts I inhabit, is generally pretty clean. Of course, traffic jams of lead fuelled cars, buses and lorries are not exactly an environmentally friendly utopia, but day to day, I can see blue skies, feel a fresh breeze and I'm rarely aware of the sun being blotted out or the strange stench I came to recognise as being part of life in further north up the Pearl River. Today, I was leaving ...