How does a country manage to function so quickly after such a long war? The Vietnamese people are so friendly, even in such a big city. we visited the War Remnants Museum - difficult.
Bobby Brewers cafe is great,it has a small free cinema on the top floor with about 30 seats - we saw a few films there.
We had a great meal when Lian Hoe took us for a meal at the Quan An Ngon restaurant - the best whilst we were in Vietnam.
Friday, 29 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Dalat
We went straight to Hue after Halong Bay. We got a good deal on a resort hotel - Pilgrimage Village - which turned out to be fantastic - we even got an upgrade. Hue has an incredible citadel much of which is ruins but is beautiful nevertheless. We also visited 2 royal mauoleums and a pagoda. The town itself is not very interesting.
Hoi An is on the river and still has many of the old buildings that were there when it was a major trading post up to the 18th century. We stayed in the Village Resort. We had one meal that was really good int he Cargo Club - it was the kind of food we expected to have often in Vietnam - lots of spices, lemon grass, basil, chili etc.
Nha Trang is a very pleasant seaside town. We just spent one night - to break up the journey from Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City.
Dalat - we also stayed for just one night. It is a French Hill Station - founded in the 19th century. We visited a Vietnamese royal summer palace that was built in the 1930's. It was like a large English suburban house from that era - even the furniture.
Hoi An is on the river and still has many of the old buildings that were there when it was a major trading post up to the 18th century. We stayed in the Village Resort. We had one meal that was really good int he Cargo Club - it was the kind of food we expected to have often in Vietnam - lots of spices, lemon grass, basil, chili etc.
Nha Trang is a very pleasant seaside town. We just spent one night - to break up the journey from Hoi An to Ho Chi Minh City.
Dalat - we also stayed for just one night. It is a French Hill Station - founded in the 19th century. We visited a Vietnamese royal summer palace that was built in the 1930's. It was like a large English suburban house from that era - even the furniture.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Halong Bay, Vietnam 11th October 2010
We booked a 2 day trip from Hanoi to Halong Bay. It included a bus from Hanoi (3 hours) and an overnight on a boat in the bay. We did not know what to expect because we only paid US$48 each and were worried that it was too cheap. Lian Choo had asked so many questions to a young lad in the travel shop in Hanoi and we think he got confused and quoted the wrong price. Anyway, we hoped it would turn out okay. In fact we were lucky, he quoted us a price for a standard boat, but had given us tickets for a deluxe boat and then the deluxe boat was full and we were upgraded to a luxury boat with the Imperial Company. It was only 3 months old and well kitted out and they served good food as well.
The Bay is amazing. It is hard to believe such land/seascapes really exist. The sea in the bay is green and has about 2,000 rocky karsts across it - most of them are covered in bushes and trees and some have caves.
The Bay is amazing. It is hard to believe such land/seascapes really exist. The sea in the bay is green and has about 2,000 rocky karsts across it - most of them are covered in bushes and trees and some have caves.
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Hanoi 9th October 2010
We arrived a week ago. The city is interesting, lots of old buildings, nice lakes, temples, pagodas and a couple of nice restaurants. Generally the food is a bit disappointing, a bit bland - not what we expected in Vietnam. But we found a good place - Club Ly Thai To, very nice environment, service and good value food at lunch time.
The traffic here is unbelievable - constant motor bikes, taxis and buses. Crossing the road is an experience - no-one stops for pedestrians, many don't stop for red lights either.
Overall though a great place to visit.
The traffic here is unbelievable - constant motor bikes, taxis and buses. Crossing the road is an experience - no-one stops for pedestrians, many don't stop for red lights either.
Overall though a great place to visit.
Saturday, 2 October 2010
1st October 2010
We went for a longer walk with another local tribal woman. We visited 2 villages one Black H'mon and the other Red Dzao - they wear red head-dresses. On the walk we saw lots of rice terraces and the farmers were harvesting the rice. We took a herbal bath in the Red Dzao village. The bath is a wooden tub filled with very hot water and 15 mountain herbs - it smelt nice. I just about fitted in the tub - they are just very large buckets. They claimed that regular baths cure all sorts of ailments - in fact any ailment as far as I could tell.
We have noticed that the people who still live traditionally, in China and Vietnam have a great sense of humour - they make jokes all the time and seem to enjoy making a play on words. Do all people who live simply cultivate a sense of humour like this?
30th September 2010
We took a short walk with a local tribal woman to a local village - Cat Cat. The people there are Black H'mon. They are the same ethnicity as the Miao people we met in Yunnan. The Black refers to their clothes - which are dark from the indigo dye they use. We picked some indigo leaves, they are ordinary looking green leaves, but after about a minute, they turn your fingers blue - amazing. There is a lovely waterfall in the village
29th September 2010
Yuanyang to Sapa Vietnam
We booked a bus from the mountain town leaving at 7.30am and were told it would take 5 hours to Hekou on the Chinese side of the border. The bus finally left at 8.00 and took just over an hour to get to the main town where it stopped until 10.00am. after that it went straight to Hekou - via back roads in order to avoid the tolls on the highway. We arrived in hekou at 4.30 - 7 hours altogether. Luckily, Vietnam is one hour behind so we got a bus from Lao Cai to Sapa. The border crossing was easy - it took about 10 minutes. Both sides were efficient, they did not search our luggage and from the Chinese side to the Vietnamese side is a short walk over a bridge.
We are staying at the Sapa Rooms Hotel which is a community project that trains and employs people from the local tribes. It is nice - the only disappointment is the cooking here - it is very bland - not at all like the Vietnamese cooking we can get in London. I expect we will get better food in Hanoi.
28th September 2010
We tried to visit some local villages today but it was raining so much and the clouds were so low that we could not see beyond the roadside, so we returned to town and had a walk around it. It is ugly - the buildings are in the modern concrete box style and beginning to crumble - but the views from the town are great - when the clouds cleared - it is very high up the mountain.
27th September 2010
Jianshu to Yanyuang
We took a taxi because we would have had to take quite along taxi trip to get from the main town to the mountain town anyway. It cost £37 pounds and took about 3 hours. the trip was very scenic - mountains, windy roads, mountain passes and we drove through clouds in one place.
After checking in to the hotel we hired a driver to take us to the huge rice terraces. They are over 2,000 years old. They are spread along the sides of a long wide valley - it is spectacular.
26th September 2010
Double Dragon Bridge and Tuanshan Village
The bridge is fantastic. Built in the traditioanl style in 1886 from stone and wood. I guess it is in such good condition because it is too narrow for motorised vehicles to cross.
The village is very old and we were lucky to be the only visitors. We visited some peoples' homes.
25th September 2010
Kunming to Jianshu.
We are staying at the Zhu Family Garden which is an old manor house that belonged to the Zhu family when they ruled the surrounding area. It is a traditional Chinese house with lots of courtyards and beautiful gardens.
We went to the Kong Ze temple which is the largest confucian temple in China and were lucky to see a traditional orchestra practising in the main courtyard.
23rd September 2010
We visited The Dragon Gate and the Confucian Temple. They are disappointing. The temple has been re-built in concrete and clearly no-one cares for it as a temple any more. It overlooks Ten Lake which is badly polluted by the factories on the far side of the lake - detergent is clearly visible on the lake. After we went to a really good local restaurant and had a meal with spare ribs mainaded in 13 spices and tied up with lemon grass and Yunnan ham fried with chili. The ham tastes like spanish Serrano ham - very nice.
Then we went to Yunnan Unversity. Its main building was built by a Chinese architect trained in France and the style of the building was a mixture - built in the 1930's
22nd September 2010
Train - Lijiang to Kunming
We returned to the Jinjiang Hotel - it is good and in a good location. We checked in and had another good meal in the hotel restaurant.
20th September 2010
Went to Baisha Village - a Naxi village. It is less visited than the other villages in the area, so is quieter and easier to see the lovely old buildings, mostly built of wood. We met the famous Dr Ho at his Chinese medicine clinic - he is over 80 years old now. We visited a few peoples' homes becasue they kept inviting us in.
After we went to Black Dragon Pool. It is the nicest city lake we ave visited in China - peaceful, clean, nice old buildings and bridges and a lovely view of Snow Mountain.
19th September 2010
Tiger leaping Gorge and Chiang Chiang First Bend
The gorge is beautiful - the river is very powerful here and the gorge very deep with steep sides.
After we went to the first bend in the Yangste river. It is one of the locations where the Red Army crossed on the Long March. It is at Stone Drum village and has a memorial to the crossing.
We went for a longer walk with another local tribal woman. We visited 2 villages one Black H'mon and the other Red Dzao - they wear red head-dresses. On the walk we saw lots of rice terraces and the farmers were harvesting the rice. We took a herbal bath in the Red Dzao village. The bath is a wooden tub filled with very hot water and 15 mountain herbs - it smelt nice. I just about fitted in the tub - they are just very large buckets. They claimed that regular baths cure all sorts of ailments - in fact any ailment as far as I could tell.
We have noticed that the people who still live traditionally, in China and Vietnam have a great sense of humour - they make jokes all the time and seem to enjoy making a play on words. Do all people who live simply cultivate a sense of humour like this?
30th September 2010
We took a short walk with a local tribal woman to a local village - Cat Cat. The people there are Black H'mon. They are the same ethnicity as the Miao people we met in Yunnan. The Black refers to their clothes - which are dark from the indigo dye they use. We picked some indigo leaves, they are ordinary looking green leaves, but after about a minute, they turn your fingers blue - amazing. There is a lovely waterfall in the village
29th September 2010
Yuanyang to Sapa Vietnam
We booked a bus from the mountain town leaving at 7.30am and were told it would take 5 hours to Hekou on the Chinese side of the border. The bus finally left at 8.00 and took just over an hour to get to the main town where it stopped until 10.00am. after that it went straight to Hekou - via back roads in order to avoid the tolls on the highway. We arrived in hekou at 4.30 - 7 hours altogether. Luckily, Vietnam is one hour behind so we got a bus from Lao Cai to Sapa. The border crossing was easy - it took about 10 minutes. Both sides were efficient, they did not search our luggage and from the Chinese side to the Vietnamese side is a short walk over a bridge.
We are staying at the Sapa Rooms Hotel which is a community project that trains and employs people from the local tribes. It is nice - the only disappointment is the cooking here - it is very bland - not at all like the Vietnamese cooking we can get in London. I expect we will get better food in Hanoi.
28th September 2010
We tried to visit some local villages today but it was raining so much and the clouds were so low that we could not see beyond the roadside, so we returned to town and had a walk around it. It is ugly - the buildings are in the modern concrete box style and beginning to crumble - but the views from the town are great - when the clouds cleared - it is very high up the mountain.
27th September 2010
Jianshu to Yanyuang
We took a taxi because we would have had to take quite along taxi trip to get from the main town to the mountain town anyway. It cost £37 pounds and took about 3 hours. the trip was very scenic - mountains, windy roads, mountain passes and we drove through clouds in one place.
After checking in to the hotel we hired a driver to take us to the huge rice terraces. They are over 2,000 years old. They are spread along the sides of a long wide valley - it is spectacular.
26th September 2010
Double Dragon Bridge and Tuanshan Village
The bridge is fantastic. Built in the traditioanl style in 1886 from stone and wood. I guess it is in such good condition because it is too narrow for motorised vehicles to cross.
The village is very old and we were lucky to be the only visitors. We visited some peoples' homes.
25th September 2010
Kunming to Jianshu.
We are staying at the Zhu Family Garden which is an old manor house that belonged to the Zhu family when they ruled the surrounding area. It is a traditional Chinese house with lots of courtyards and beautiful gardens.
We went to the Kong Ze temple which is the largest confucian temple in China and were lucky to see a traditional orchestra practising in the main courtyard.
23rd September 2010
We visited The Dragon Gate and the Confucian Temple. They are disappointing. The temple has been re-built in concrete and clearly no-one cares for it as a temple any more. It overlooks Ten Lake which is badly polluted by the factories on the far side of the lake - detergent is clearly visible on the lake. After we went to a really good local restaurant and had a meal with spare ribs mainaded in 13 spices and tied up with lemon grass and Yunnan ham fried with chili. The ham tastes like spanish Serrano ham - very nice.
Then we went to Yunnan Unversity. Its main building was built by a Chinese architect trained in France and the style of the building was a mixture - built in the 1930's
22nd September 2010
Train - Lijiang to Kunming
We returned to the Jinjiang Hotel - it is good and in a good location. We checked in and had another good meal in the hotel restaurant.
20th September 2010
Went to Baisha Village - a Naxi village. It is less visited than the other villages in the area, so is quieter and easier to see the lovely old buildings, mostly built of wood. We met the famous Dr Ho at his Chinese medicine clinic - he is over 80 years old now. We visited a few peoples' homes becasue they kept inviting us in.
After we went to Black Dragon Pool. It is the nicest city lake we ave visited in China - peaceful, clean, nice old buildings and bridges and a lovely view of Snow Mountain.
19th September 2010
Tiger leaping Gorge and Chiang Chiang First Bend
The gorge is beautiful - the river is very powerful here and the gorge very deep with steep sides.
After we went to the first bend in the Yangste river. It is one of the locations where the Red Army crossed on the Long March. It is at Stone Drum village and has a memorial to the crossing.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
17th September 2010
Shuher
Another Naxi town, but much less tourist orientated. We walked around the less busy parts of the town and saw a private museum run by a 5th generation Horse Gang Leader. His ancestors traded tea along the Tea Horse Trail from Nepal to Shuher. He still trades in tea and we had some really nice tea there and bought 2 tea bricks.
15th September 2010
Lijiang
A Naxi town. The town is very pretty – lots of well-maintained traditional wooden houses, but the whole town has been given over to tourism and is like visiting a Disney version of China. However, even here there are some great places. We visited the Mu residence. The Mu family were the ruling family in the town for many years and their house is like a palace. Also, there is an ancient concert hall in the town where an orchestra of mostly very old men play Tang dynasty music.
13th September 2010
We joined a tour to take a trip on the huge lake next to Dali. After the lake we were supposed to visit a very large temple – the biggest in China, but the guide was determined to make as much money as possible (her commission from shops) and kept stopping at different shops – tea, silver, jade – and we did not get to the temple until only one hour before it was due to close. This is a big problem with tours in China. I think this will be the last we go on – they make the visits cheaper, but the price one has to pay with waiting around in the car parks of large shops is too high.
12th September 2010
Dali
Dali is a Bai minority village that is very pretty, it has some wall intact and an impressive gate, but it has become quite tourist orientated in some of its streets. But the village is quite big so it is possible to walk around in quieter places.
11th September 2010
Visited the Golden Temple on the outskirts of Kunming. The temple is very nice and has a cable car to go up the mountain to get to it. The cable cars are large toboggans that run in between guard rails – they go quite fast and have lots of twists and turns in order to make it up the steep slopes.
Our last day in Kunming – we will return in a week after we visit some local villages.
10th September 2010
We went with Julia, a waitress from the hotel, to the Stone Forest. She grew up near to there, so was a really good guide. The forest is a huge area with stone pillars that are the result of 200 million years of erosion. It is all very strange – it is even possible to see perfect fault lines that accurately run across pillars standing in a row – as if the rock in between them were still there.
9th September 2010
We met Lin Amaiia who we contacted via Couchsurfing. She gavus loads of information about Kunming and the area around and also Vietnam. We had lunch with her near to the university.
8th September 2010
Kunming
All day on the bus from Anshun and we arrived in the early evening. The Jinjiang Hotel is nice though and is fairly near to the train and bus station which is useful for when we leave. We had a very nice meal in the hotel restaurant.
7th September 2010
Anshun
Visited Huangguoshu waterfalls – they are spectacular – there are several big falls in one area. They charge admission fees to see them though – £18 each and then a further £10 for transport – far too expensive. We also visited the Ye San caves which are pretty good.
5th September 2010
We visited Longjiang to see the Dhong Village there. Their costume is beautiful and their singing is fantastic – their singing is harsh but they stay in tune and harmonise with each other so well.
Congjiang Village – the women all seem to dress in traditional costume and even still keep their hair in the style of the Qing dynasty.
Zhaozhing Village – Dhong village. We heard music by local musicians. It has been supported by a Norwegian fund and is in great condition and very beautiful.
Longlee town. A walled town that was built by soldiers during the Ming Dynasty. Their descendents still live there. The wall is still intact, as are the four gates. The buildings are made of stone and were obviously built very strongly to have lasted so long. The town was a garrison to guard the main routes from South East Asia into China. It was attacked and the first garrison was wiped out by the Dhong people not long after they built the town. The replacement force took the town again finished building it and stayed there.
Chingping Village – Dhong Village. This used to be a very prosperous village for 500 years until trade routes changed because of modern transport. There are some old houses that were built by rich traders and quite a bit of stone was used to build the village. But now the village is dying. The population is ageing, there are a small number of children being looked after by grandparents, but it seems the village will not survive once the present adult population begins to die. We heard a group of 4 elderly women sing – it was beautiful.
Hon Yang – Miao village. The drive to the village was fantastic – rolling hills, rice terraces and we drove through clouds when we drove through one of the passes.
Back to Kaili
Shuher
Another Naxi town, but much less tourist orientated. We walked around the less busy parts of the town and saw a private museum run by a 5th generation Horse Gang Leader. His ancestors traded tea along the Tea Horse Trail from Nepal to Shuher. He still trades in tea and we had some really nice tea there and bought 2 tea bricks.
15th September 2010
Lijiang
A Naxi town. The town is very pretty – lots of well-maintained traditional wooden houses, but the whole town has been given over to tourism and is like visiting a Disney version of China. However, even here there are some great places. We visited the Mu residence. The Mu family were the ruling family in the town for many years and their house is like a palace. Also, there is an ancient concert hall in the town where an orchestra of mostly very old men play Tang dynasty music.
13th September 2010
We joined a tour to take a trip on the huge lake next to Dali. After the lake we were supposed to visit a very large temple – the biggest in China, but the guide was determined to make as much money as possible (her commission from shops) and kept stopping at different shops – tea, silver, jade – and we did not get to the temple until only one hour before it was due to close. This is a big problem with tours in China. I think this will be the last we go on – they make the visits cheaper, but the price one has to pay with waiting around in the car parks of large shops is too high.
12th September 2010
Dali
Dali is a Bai minority village that is very pretty, it has some wall intact and an impressive gate, but it has become quite tourist orientated in some of its streets. But the village is quite big so it is possible to walk around in quieter places.
11th September 2010
Visited the Golden Temple on the outskirts of Kunming. The temple is very nice and has a cable car to go up the mountain to get to it. The cable cars are large toboggans that run in between guard rails – they go quite fast and have lots of twists and turns in order to make it up the steep slopes.
Our last day in Kunming – we will return in a week after we visit some local villages.
10th September 2010
We went with Julia, a waitress from the hotel, to the Stone Forest. She grew up near to there, so was a really good guide. The forest is a huge area with stone pillars that are the result of 200 million years of erosion. It is all very strange – it is even possible to see perfect fault lines that accurately run across pillars standing in a row – as if the rock in between them were still there.
9th September 2010
We met Lin Amaiia who we contacted via Couchsurfing. She gavus loads of information about Kunming and the area around and also Vietnam. We had lunch with her near to the university.
8th September 2010
Kunming
All day on the bus from Anshun and we arrived in the early evening. The Jinjiang Hotel is nice though and is fairly near to the train and bus station which is useful for when we leave. We had a very nice meal in the hotel restaurant.
7th September 2010
Anshun
Visited Huangguoshu waterfalls – they are spectacular – there are several big falls in one area. They charge admission fees to see them though – £18 each and then a further £10 for transport – far too expensive. We also visited the Ye San caves which are pretty good.
5th September 2010
We visited Longjiang to see the Dhong Village there. Their costume is beautiful and their singing is fantastic – their singing is harsh but they stay in tune and harmonise with each other so well.
Congjiang Village – the women all seem to dress in traditional costume and even still keep their hair in the style of the Qing dynasty.
Zhaozhing Village – Dhong village. We heard music by local musicians. It has been supported by a Norwegian fund and is in great condition and very beautiful.
Longlee town. A walled town that was built by soldiers during the Ming Dynasty. Their descendents still live there. The wall is still intact, as are the four gates. The buildings are made of stone and were obviously built very strongly to have lasted so long. The town was a garrison to guard the main routes from South East Asia into China. It was attacked and the first garrison was wiped out by the Dhong people not long after they built the town. The replacement force took the town again finished building it and stayed there.
Chingping Village – Dhong Village. This used to be a very prosperous village for 500 years until trade routes changed because of modern transport. There are some old houses that were built by rich traders and quite a bit of stone was used to build the village. But now the village is dying. The population is ageing, there are a small number of children being looked after by grandparents, but it seems the village will not survive once the present adult population begins to die. We heard a group of 4 elderly women sing – it was beautiful.
Hon Yang – Miao village. The drive to the village was fantastic – rolling hills, rice terraces and we drove through clouds when we drove through one of the passes.
Back to Kaili
31st August 2010
We left for a 6 day trip around the local villages.
30th August 2010
Matang Village
The local people were holding a harvest festival. There was singing and dancing as well as bull-fighting. The water buffalo are taken to the river where they fight each other. The competition lasts the whole day and after a series of rounds one of the bulls is the champion. Many of the bouts are quite short because one of the bulls just decides against fighting and runs away. But others last for the full 5 minutes and the referee decides the winner. In one bout, unbelievably, one bull tossed the other onto its back after they had locked horns and the winner tossed its neck. Incredible – they are so big and heavy.
28th August 2010
Kaili
A small town that is the capital of the local area – lots of local ethnic minorities live here.
We booked a local guide in order to find local villages. We saw Xia huang, Langde and Ziyang – all are beautiful, old traditional places with nice old wooden buildings. We met Miaou people and had lunch with a local family.
27th August 2010
Guiyang museum is really good. It has lots of displays of ethnic minority costume.
26th August 2010
Guiyang
Went to a musical show, but it was disappointing - too much electronic music and miming. The performance was supposed to be folk music.
23rd August 2010
Kaiping
Kaiping is a good base from which to visit the Diaolou. They are towers that were built in the countryside up to the 1930's by returning overseas Chinese. The Diaolou were strongly built and provided them protection from people who would attack them for their money. They were mostly vacated during the Cultural Revolution. They are strongly built of reinforced concrete. Some of them are in the process of renovation although many of them still had original furniture inside, so they are good to visit.
21st August 2010
Guangzhou
We met John Wang our friend from London who is living in Guangzho for a while. He took us for a really good vegetarian meal and then we visited the Shamian island in the Pearl River. It was the base for Europeans before the second world war. The old buildings have been restored and they are great.
20th August 2010
Back to Shenzhen
We took the ferry back to Shenzhen and successfully renewed our Chinese visa in he process so it is good for a further 3 months – although we will not be staying that much longer. Guangzhou is the next place and we are taking the train.
19th August 2010
We went into town and visited the Pawn Museum. It is an actual old pawn shop that still has all the old shelves, counters, record books etc. Then we took a bus to Taipa, the other island of Macao and visited the Macao museum.
We left for a 6 day trip around the local villages.
30th August 2010
Matang Village
The local people were holding a harvest festival. There was singing and dancing as well as bull-fighting. The water buffalo are taken to the river where they fight each other. The competition lasts the whole day and after a series of rounds one of the bulls is the champion. Many of the bouts are quite short because one of the bulls just decides against fighting and runs away. But others last for the full 5 minutes and the referee decides the winner. In one bout, unbelievably, one bull tossed the other onto its back after they had locked horns and the winner tossed its neck. Incredible – they are so big and heavy.
28th August 2010
Kaili
A small town that is the capital of the local area – lots of local ethnic minorities live here.
We booked a local guide in order to find local villages. We saw Xia huang, Langde and Ziyang – all are beautiful, old traditional places with nice old wooden buildings. We met Miaou people and had lunch with a local family.
27th August 2010
Guiyang museum is really good. It has lots of displays of ethnic minority costume.
26th August 2010
Guiyang
Went to a musical show, but it was disappointing - too much electronic music and miming. The performance was supposed to be folk music.
23rd August 2010
Kaiping
Kaiping is a good base from which to visit the Diaolou. They are towers that were built in the countryside up to the 1930's by returning overseas Chinese. The Diaolou were strongly built and provided them protection from people who would attack them for their money. They were mostly vacated during the Cultural Revolution. They are strongly built of reinforced concrete. Some of them are in the process of renovation although many of them still had original furniture inside, so they are good to visit.
21st August 2010
Guangzhou
We met John Wang our friend from London who is living in Guangzho for a while. He took us for a really good vegetarian meal and then we visited the Shamian island in the Pearl River. It was the base for Europeans before the second world war. The old buildings have been restored and they are great.
20th August 2010
Back to Shenzhen
We took the ferry back to Shenzhen and successfully renewed our Chinese visa in he process so it is good for a further 3 months – although we will not be staying that much longer. Guangzhou is the next place and we are taking the train.
19th August 2010
We went into town and visited the Pawn Museum. It is an actual old pawn shop that still has all the old shelves, counters, record books etc. Then we took a bus to Taipa, the other island of Macao and visited the Macao museum.
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