Blogs from China, Asia - page 7

I had seen an art exhibition advertised at the Guangming Culture and Art Centre that I liked the sound of so headed there on my last day of freedom (the National Day Holiday week). I took the subway to Fenghuang Town on line 6 and from the station it was about a 10-15 minute walk to the museum. I was a little confused when I arrived as the complex is quite big and there were two entrances opposite each other and I wasn’t sure which one was the art museum. Luckily, I picked the right one. I have no idea what the other one was for, but it was pretty busy. After checking all my various codes, I was allowed in. I had been able to book a ticket for the (free) general museum online. However, ... read more

Well I had a lot planned for today, but it didn't work out as planned. After waking up and getting myself sorted, I headed out to the reganmian place for breakfast. The noodles were even better than last time. I didn't think that was possible. I could eat every meal there, but force myself to branch out a bit. I headed back to my place for a post breakfast coffee and to make a rough plan for the day. I had a look on my map app and found a couple of places nearby that I wanted to visit. The first was Dongshan Temple that was located really close to the ancient city. It only took me about ten to fifteen minutes to walk there, but when I got there, I could see it was boarded ... read more

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

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

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