The Landmark Hotel Shenzhen

My arrival in China coincided with it's week long National Holiday celebrating the People's Republic of China's 60 year anniversary. During this time China goes into a mass frenzy; huge swathes of people go travelling and sightseeing within the country, streets swell to double or triple capacity, accommodation prices soar and transportation gets booked solidly. The advice given was to me during this time was akin to that ...

... of the most if not the hottest places I have had to work in not in terms of the tempreture but in terms of the humidity. The tempreture is not as hot as some places I have lived in i.e. South Africa or Australia where it got up to 44 degress it is simply the humidity that kills me, the heat does not have anywhere really to escape it gets caught in all of the buidlings and the hills and mountains that surrond Hong Kong and you ...

... out of there when the husband of the woman showed up and seriously started to yell at me. They had a real problem with the fact that I wasnt going to stay unless I looked at the room first. Finally they agreed to show me the upper class room which consisted of a living space smaller than a closet back home. Literally there was a door, a foot of space, then a mattress, no window and a toilet in the corner. If you wanted to shower you could ...

... We would be guaranteed either a laptop, holiday to Thailand, or $1,000 USD. The company doing the promotion were a timeshare company, so of course there was no laptop and cash, just a holiday. We got back to the hotel for lunch before taking a walk down through the markets and ending up at the sound and light show. This was amazing - all the skyscrapers on Hong Kong island lit up in time ...

The Flight from Puket to Hong Kong was pleasant and very quick! I arrived at 18h30 and with no guide book I just followed my nose! Thank goodness I had Pre booked Accommodation and they send me detailed description on how to get there it was pretty easy! Hong Kong "I cant Believe I'm here !!!!!" the First thoughts popping threw my mind. At night the City looks Dazzling, Mystical and Just a magical place to be discovered. I took the bus not ...

... temple is open daily, from early morning till around 5:30 pm and although it is not one of Hong Kong's most impressive temples, it's certainly worth a visit. <br>Yung Shue Tau Square , just outside the Temple, is a good place to rest and enjoy the cool shade of the Banyan trees. The square comes alive in the late afternoon, when hawkers, Chinese chess players, Cantonese opera singers and Fortune tellers are setting up their ...

... for the toilet so we walked into some random restaurant where Rachel got her first taste of a squat toilet, she was not impressed. We've been watching the situation in Bangkok carefully, seems the protests against the current government were stepped up over the last few days and they have closed the airport. Were due to fly in on Monday so were hoping things are sorted by then. If not we have a few back up plans so were not too worried. Time for bed now its 3am!

... left * ******ting grin on my f*ce w*s the *fternoon of *ctivities *nd g*mes th*t they org*nized for us. Splitting us into groups of 8 or 9 students, we competed with one *nother in * b*lloon popping g*me, * l*tern m*king r*ce, *nd *n *m*zing-r*ce style expedition *round the town. Arriving b*ck *t our origin*l destin*tion *fter the r*ce, we indulged in * chinese style BBQ. B*sic*lly, there *re tubs *nd tubs of r*w me*t th*t you put onto your pl*te, *nd ...

Shenzhen is a mystery: a booming city with an estimated population of 12 million people butted against up against Mainland China's border with Hong Kong, it makes up part of the concrete, commercial megalopolis formed by Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Dongguan and Zhuhai across the Pearl River Delta. 25 years ago, the city was a fishing village of 20,000 people. Today, it is awash with architecturally and financially spectacular ...

"You're fired! You've been doing all these things wrong for the last 3 months, but we didn't tell you." You have 2 days to get out of your accommodation." It's an unbelievably brutal message, but that's what happened to one of my colleagues last week. There is no protection from employment law here. The cynicism of this was compounded by the fact that the school just happened to have a replacement teacher ...