Zhe Jiang Hotel 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 ...

... 2 pools, resturaunts, shops, bars, fish pond with massive goldfish and a waterfall! yesterday we visited yuexiu park, it was really beautiful. we had many asian admirers, all saying helloooooooooo and staring at us, especially the kids. we tried our first weird foods including eel rice and hawthorn ice blocks, sarah has been sick for a while but dont stress mum mums cause she is ship shape for our ...

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.

... doesn't speak English nor does the lead of the sim-card mafia, but he jumps in the front seat after I negotiate 200 yuan for the ride into the city using the hotel's chinese character address. Guess he just made commission on me. 30 minutes to GZ city center

... As you can imagine I nearly had heart failure worrying! I had visions of him being turned back from China (this might have been a blessing in disguise!) and just when I thought he was gone forever a load of chinese people in white suits from head to toe (think astronaut) appeared from the room he was in......thankfully Ollie appeared a few minutes later looking unharmed but with a white mask clamped to his mouth...hilarious sight!

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The mall suffered millions of dollars in damage on July 11, 2004 when a severe storm of hail and rain caused roofs to fail and drains ...

... above the temples gateway. The original pagoda was a huge square wooden structure which was destroyed by fire in the tenth century, but reconstructed in 1097 during the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1980, when the pagoda was being repaired, bricks inscribed with the names of periods of the Northern Song Dynasty were found. Pagoda is made of wood and brick and is fifty-seven ...

We got up nice and early for a change. We got the Subway to Hun Hom station and caught the high speed link to Guangzhou to catch our sleeper train to Nanning - First class of course!We arrived at Guangzhou East station and had to make our way via the subway to Guangzhou station for our sleeper train. You think the subway would be easy to use but once again, everything was in Chinese symbols and it took a few attempts to reach the correct stop!

A lot can happen in 21 days in the wonderous world of China. As I think about Thailand, Burma, and Singapore I can't even put China on the same planet. When people visit Thailand they get a shirt with a picture of a beach and some pretty girls. Maybe just a Chang Beer T-Shirt to represent the lost nights they had getting loser drunk on the beach. When someone leaves China I think the border should just give them a shirt with big block letters ...

Don't go to Guangzhou, I'm give this advice bro, It got on my nerves, I wish I'd given it some swerves. It had a big river, It thinks it's so clever, But I know it's ****, Even with a good map. We went for two days, Without much to gaze, I stayed in my bed, And just read and read. It did have a fun fair, But it was hard to get there ...