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Travel Blogs from Guangzhou

Guangzhou

A travel blog entry by ryness

... but it is more the fact that you know you are locked in to a smooth, long journey where you can read, write, think, sleep, go to the toilet any time you like, use electronics any time, enjoy scenery around you, and because you are gradually moving along, there is a constant underlying feeling of positivity about the future. We arrived in Guangzhou and realised we had done it again! It was 5pm, peak hour! Having lost most sense of what day it was, only relying on dates ...

The Long Way Home

A travel blog entry by trish_paul

... 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

A travel blog entry by annierose

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As a friend, I would always have highs and lows in friendship…but truly tested, the friendship itself will remain firm…integrity, loyalty and affection are three determiners that even if inflexible and self-centered I am, I can be a courageous and a ...

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 ...