It World Guangzhou

... we haggled for some jewellery and sarah is ruthless. we sat down at a table in a long hall of Chinese restaurants and tried duck and chicken bone dishes, then it hit, whitewash face of sarah dissapeared into the horizon of black bobbing cuts, she returned in a matter of seconds to only say a few words 'i vomited, in front of a chinese family, they ran away and squealed'. I looked perplexingly at her but we quickly ...

We caught a train from HK to Guangzhou on the 4th. Its a very hectic city. Lots of people, bikes, cars and buses. people riding bike on the road with ridiculous things tied to the back. we are staying on an island in the city named shamian. its very pretty, but a true tourist hub. our hostel is lovely. we thought that we were truely livinh the high life until we visited a hotel across the road that ...

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Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

Arrive after 11 pm and my company screws up the pick-up. 20 guys trying to sell me sim-cards are chasing me around baggage claim because I'm clearly not moving out. After an hour and deciding I won't be picked up, I bee-line for the first cab in lineup. The ...

... Kong vers 11h20 et au guichet automatique pour ramasser les dollars HK, je perds ma carte de guichet. On passe beaucoup de temps a chercher, on se rend finalement a l'hotel, bien d'autres desagrements (chambre fumeur, appeler la banque pour canceller carte guichet etc) on on finit par se coucher vers 2h am tres brules de notre journee mais tout de meme contents de s'etre rendus.

Mais comme tous bons voyageurs que nous sommes, nous etions a 9h sur ...

... offer some great views but my sky was grey and overcast. Too see all the sites you simply continue climbing the stairs at the back of the temple and when you reach the Shangding Square (I think it's called that anyhow) where the cable car ends continue following the road upwards. Each site is Five Yuan to enter but if you are lucky like me, most of the ticket people are either asleep or will wave you ...

... known at the time as Zheng Ze, the president of a Hong Kong company called the Golden Eagle Group. From the beginning, Wang carefully manipulated his image and won the trust of the local government. Reports say that Wang was often seen in his Cadillac limousine accompanied by eight body guards wearing black suits and sun glasses. Wang was also seen by many as generous ...

... nail clippers, a precision screwdriver set, packets of tissues, tweezers, scissors, a book on how to learn Chinese using pictures and a little notepad for me. We caught a taxi to the 6 famous banyan trees. Near the entrance to the Banyan tree there are a million and one beggars throwing tins and bowls in your face and doing some trick hoping you'd give them money. The absolutely freaked me out. We went into the Banyan Tree and looked at the temples with big ...

... eel with rice to udon noodles. I didn't think it was that large of a restaurant until I went to the bathroom. I had to walk a really long way to get to it, and I passed a long hallway of probably 50-60 private dining rooms, which seemed pretty cool. When I got back, everyone was gathered around our table, and Chrysta was cutting her cake. I had missed the entire surprise and singing! Oh no! \ But it was a good time regardless. The Poly U ...