I went to china for a tour holiday and travel within Guizhou and Hunan, mainly visiting the scenic hills and waterfalls of Guizhou and going to Zhangjiajie in Hunan.
Here are the highlights of day 9: Shenzhen
We left the hotel. It was a nice hotel, very nice by China's standard, and possibly nicest room of the entire trip. Well, Shenzhen is a bigger city anyway, so if it is not nice it would be embarassing.
After breakfast, I went down and took some street shots.
There is a bank around the corner near our hotel, and this is the guard. Wow. Is that a shotgun? And body armour?
A beggar near traffic light.
Bicyclist are probably a dying breed in China, not that they are involved in a lot of deadly traffic accident but more due to lifestyle changes. More people want to appear wealthy, and owning a car is a status symbol. So here are some pictures of the cyclist.
Um... what!?! No bicycle!?!
That sign is near the miniature world park in ShenZhen, the place where you can find the all of these in one place:
The Golden Bridge (we went pass it, so this has to be taken from inside a moving bus, good thing it was sunny)
A mixed style building
I am terribly sorry, the lamp post decided that it needs to be in the picture.
On the left side of the park, there is something that looks like the pillars of the The Phanteon build by the Romans or The Parthenon build by the Greeks with Eiffel Tower behind it. You can go up the stairs and reached a ticketing booth to go inside. We did not go up.
And here is the view of the right side of the park, where you find the jumble of different style buildings.
And this is the Pyramid of Subway Station, in front of the park.
And at the center of the foyer, there are nice water fountain, and if you notice in the background, there is a KFC outlet.
Along the fence you can also marvel at the copy of the famous statues from left to right, possibly statue from the Ancient Greek (I am not sure the name, it is a female statue, so may be Venus), followed by David (by Michael Angelo, from Italy), two Asian looking bronze statue (may be Indian and Tibetan), a statue of Pharaoh from Egypt, and faintly on the rightmost looks like a Persian or Babylonian style statue. Going downhill next to the man-made waterfall (or water staircase) are two tribal looking statue which is either South East Asian origin or Pacific Islander origin.
This is the bigger photo of the statue which I have no clear idea from where (may be ancient greek origin). Behind as you can see, the mini Eiffel Tower has been decked with some Christmas looking ornament, and possibly at night it doubles up as a Christmas tree lookalike.
From there we were taken to shop for silk produce, and again some more tea. Then we are taken to another exhibition center where we can roam around freely, and I did.
I took more street shots, at nearby the wet market. And here some example of good environmental practice done in China.
Recycle your plastic mineral water bottle. Carry them, lots of them, with bicycle.
Use LNG or LPG. They have less pollution. Deliver them by bicycle. If you want one, call that number:
Amazing skill. He carried 4 tubes at one go, and look at the road condition.
And climbing uphill.
And I saw a pink bicycle! Apology for the excitement, it is just that pink bicycles are quite rare, if you notice.
At noon, we were taken to this shopping center to spend the rest of the time, eat lunch at own expense, till it was close to dinner time.
Look at the crowd.
It is prohibited to take picture in the shopping mall and in the supermarket, but I have a swivel LCD on my Olympus E-330 so I can still take candid shots without alarming the people around me. Hehe.
Yeah, wrong white balance. I will fix it later.
This is taken from inside a lift in another shopping mall.
This old man is dead, but he still watches over the people.
We went some more time around the city and was shown the sky scraper of Shenzhen.
This is Shun Hing Square (the one in the middle, greenish colour) tallest completed building in Shenzhen.
After going around by bus in the city, it is time for dinner. The arranged dinner (with additional payment) is at a restaurant serving goose meal. I opted out and eat food sold at the stalls near supermarket and my mum scour the supermarket for bargains to bring back home.
We then transported to the airport, and that is the almost the end of our journey.
Oh by the way, in the plane, the same incident happened again. Want food fast? Order special food. That is the tips for flying with Silkair.
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