Apr. 2006, Guangzhou. The taxi drivers the ones with official taxi logos are ok. However, take care with those drivers with cars offered in the hotel or fairs. They are very unprofessional and can drive you crazy with their behavior (smoke crazily, sets teh radio at high volume ).

Apr. 2006. In general, it is easy to find western food in Guangzhou, since it is a very international city.

I found a Brazilian rodizio, but as a surprise they charged in the bill everything used in the table, like napkins!, and toothpick!

In the Guangzhou fair I saw the most crowded McDonald. May be 100 customers per counter, and some 100 counters at the time!!!

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.

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 ).

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.