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Lodging in Guangzhou
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 9:21:14 PM
Apr. 2006. For the Canton Fair the rates of the hotel climb up to 3 times the prices. However, always you can get room. Just arrive to the airport or train station and you will find many many offers of hotel brokers, with reasonable prices. You can bargain there more easily.
However, remember: three star in china is not the same that in US or Europe, and many times many things doesn´t work as expected, so be patient.
I recommend also to pay the hotel just one or two nights per time, since the rates will go down according to the fairs goes. This means, in the third day you may get half of the initial rate.
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Train from Shenzhen to Guangzhou
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 9:16:32 PM
Apr 2006. Buy early your tickets, so many people travelling. Show your passport to gain preference.
I would suggest to have meal in the station, and never in the train (meal in the train is not good ).
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How to read the chineses signs
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 9:08:48 PM
Apr. 2006. It is not easy to read chinese symbols. But I found a partial solution. First I made friends by internet in almost all city that I will visit. Then, at the entering to china, I bought an chip of chinamobile. So this allowed me to call and send pictures to my friend asking help for whatever thing I need. I works!. So, I took the train to Shenzhen downtown (Tianjing), without knowing nothing of chineses symbols.
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Entering China from Hong Kong
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 9:03:42 PM
Apr. 2006
It is easy to enter China from Hong Kong. Just take the metro to Shenzhen border. Then walk to the customs with your passport in hand. Along with you there will be millions of other chineses doing the same, but as foreigner you will have the advantage to use a different counter to cross the border. Just show your passport and things will be easyer for you. However, during the passport inspection and stamping the guard will check carefully you and your documents.
After crossing the border, take care with people (mainly security guards) who try to "help you" speaking some english, asking to buy for you phone cards, or calling to your friend or something else. They will ask you money for whatever "help".
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VISA TO ENTER CHINA
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 8:55:59 PM
If you don´t have a China Visa, you can get it easyly in Hong Kong, only have to wait some 24 hours and you will have it.
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Hong Kong
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 8:49:50 PM
Apr. 2006. Really modern city. Excellent night life. I spent my birthday there in a Irish pub drinking good Guiness beer. The YMCA is a good option to have lodging at low cost in a clean and safe place.
I suggest to take a taxi and ask the driver to take you to visit the main points of the city. Must spent one night in the Soho, , viist the HKTC and take the ferry.
Many many foreign comunities. Hong Kong looks like a meeting point of all cultures, like westerns, chineses, arabs, africans, etc.
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Changzhou
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 8:43:42 PM
Sep 2004. From Wuxi to Changzhou I visited small factories of electric parts and metal working. These are the really chinese manufacturing plants, where the small parts are made. Many young girls seat one by the other in long tables assembling parts. I looked like them as strange.
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Jinan and Dongying
By JOSE | 4/1/2007 8:37:09 PM
I knew the famous Yellow River. Traveling from Jinan to Dongying Is a good opportunity to know the inner country of this part of china.
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