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Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen October 1st 2022

National Day holiday, seven days off work, something I have been looking forward to a lot. To make life easier, I decided to stay in Shenzhen, but go to Dapeng, which is pretty far east. This city just sprawls and sprawls. It would take me about two and a half hours to get there, plus I thought it would take longer due to the terrible holiday traffic. First it was the subway, which I thought would be the easiest part, but turned out to be the most annoying. Due to Covid (I know the rest of the world has got over it, but not China), Guangdong province (or maybe just Shenzhen) has a policy where you have to scan in places, but of course the system only works if you have a mainland ID number, normally ... read more
Dapeng Ancient City
Dapeng Ancient City
Dapeng Ancient City

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen September 12th 2022

Holiday weekend and I was spending the last day of it exploring a different part of Shenzhen. We started at O Power, which was built in the 1980s and had been Huazhong power plant. This power plant had been used to light the whole OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) area. Since the power plant has been closed, it has been transformed into an art and culture centre. We spent about half an hour or so looking around the place. I probably wouldn't have chose to visit it myself, so it was nice to see somewhere different. I spent a while wandering around the grounds. The first part I walked around had been transformed into a play park. There weren't many kids around, but there were a few adults chilling on the swing seats. It was really hot ... read more
O Power
O Power
O Power

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen August 27th 2022

Shenzhen Museum is located in the heart of Shenzhen in the Civic Centre complex at Futian. Booking a ticket online was fairly straight forward using their WeChat account/mini programme, I can't remember which one it was, and the WeChat translate function. Getting in was pretty straight forward too, health code check, green arrow (travel code) check, and then ticket check. I don't think the woman even looked at my ID. I was happy to get out of the heat and into the air conditioned building. The museum has three floors and I started on the ground one. The first exhibition that I had a look around was a temporary exhibition, since it was a temporary one, there were no English explanations and not even the name was in English so I was pretty clueless as to ... read more
Shenzhen Museum
Shenzhen Museum
Shenzhen Museum

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen August 13th 2022

Dongmen Pedestrian Street wouldn't be my usual pick of place to go. Maybe if I was visiting a new town or city and had an hour to kill, but shopping streets don't really do it for me and there is a long list of places I would have preferred to visit in Shenzhen. But when I saw that there was a Worldwide photowalk happening there, I decided to sign up as it would be something different and not somewhere I would venture off my own bat. I had a little time to kill before the photowalk started, so I had a bit of a look around, walking up and down a couple of streets. It was hot, loud and bright, definitely a bit of an assault on the senses. I headed over to the meeting point ... read more
Dongmen Food Street
Dongmen Food Street
Dongmen Food Street

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen May 3rd 2022

Another day, another hike. I have to get them in before the weather gets too hot and humid and I retreat to curl up under my air con for the summer. Since it was a holiday, I thought the trails might be busy. I headed from the subway up to the park entrance. I was surprised that there wasn't too many people around. The guard actually checked to see that my health code was green, which I'd never had done there before. They must be being stricter because it is a holiday. The walk up the road to the start of the trails was quite busy, but not too bad. Just before reaching the trails, I popped into my favourite public toilets in the whole of China, still spotless. I wish everywhere was like this. There ... read more
Nanshan
Nanshan
Nanshan

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen February 5th 2022

I headed back to Nanshan to try a different hiking route. On a side note the toilets at the start of the hike are probably the nicest and cleanest I've come across in all my time in China. I decided to take the trail up that I had taken down the first time I was here. I did think that this route was easier, but going up I changed my mind. There were some pretty lanterns near the start of the trail to mark the new year. It was only a few steps to the first pavilion, which since I'd just started, I didn't take a break at. Since it was the holiday, it was busier than the last time I was here. I hiked up and up the stairs were pretty steep and each set ... read more
Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Nanshan

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen January 30th 2022

Shenzhen Bay Park has its own metro station so is very easy to get to. I had been in the area before, but since the weather that day had been pretty bad, I'd skipped having a look around the park. Since the weather was better today, I decided to stretch my legs with a nice walk in the park. When I came out of the metro station it was quite busy with people having a look at the view and deciding where they wanted to go. The park stretches for 13 kilometres, I though it was 16km, and is a popular spot for walking and cycling. There was some stuff to the north, but since that wouldn't have been much of a walk and I didn't want to retrace my steps. I headed south. I had ... read more
Shenzhen Bay Park
Shenzhen Bay Park
Shenzhen Bay Park

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen January 27th 2022

The walk from Xianhu Road subway station to the entrance to Fairy Lake Botanical Garden was about ten minutes. There wasn't much to see as it was through a residential area. I had already bought my ticket online through their WeChat account, and it looks like this is the way to go as the ticket offices are closed due to Covid. The ticket was 15 RMB. I made my way through the large gate and scanned my ticket and started my walk to the centre of the park. There are buses that take you around the botanical gardens if you don't want to walk. I followed the path for about ten minutes or so. There were some nice little boardwalks that branched off from the path so you could walk through them. I had spotted a ... read more
Fairy Lake
Fairy Lake
Fairy Lake

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen January 6th 2022

From Seaworld Station exit B, it was a short walk about 5-10 minutes to the entrance to Nanshan Park. I passed a few nice looking apartment blocks. The walk to the start of the trail wasn't too bad, as it was on a nice gently sloping paved road. There were some pretty trees lining the walk with pretty red flowers. It was nice to look at those and made up for the fact there was no view of the surrounding area. I think I must have walked along the path for about ten to fifteen minutes before I reached Longevity Culture Square. This was a nice little square with some kind of rock feature/waterfall that was missing the water and plenty of exercise equipment in the shade. The trail, the No. 1 Climbing Path, started here. ... read more
Nanshan
Nanshan
Nanshan

Asia » China » Guangdong » Shenzhen January 5th 2022

Dafen Oil Painting Village is a pretty well known place in Shenzhen. It is quite far out of the city centre, but right next to the subway station. The village is famous for recreating famous paintings, so that you can get them at a fraction of the cost of an original. Since I went on a weekday, it was pretty quiet. There were a few other tourists taking a look around. I imagine it gets pretty packed on the weekends. The village is pretty small and I spent about an hour to an hour and a half wandering around. I made my way to what I think is the main street/square in the centre of the village. There were a few galleries and shops there. I had a look in a couple of them. I wasn't ... read more
Dafen Village
Dafen Village
Dafen Village




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