captainfatguts

Up early this morning 4:30 am had coffee and went down for ciggie Yesterday went to Terracotta warriors, snowed all day---kids were wrapped. Not too cold (-3) no win though Bummer - because it was the off season - the surround movie was not playing but bought it on DVD (80 yuan) Bought 2 sets of terracotta warriors for Y10 each, actually only wanted one for Y15 but old woman would not give me change for 20. Pissed off, could have got them for Y5 (Y280 in hotel gift shop) so with two sets I got ripped off Y10 (AUD1.60) LOL Warriors were not as impressive as I imagined, probably due to very poor lighting and viewig distance. Went to big wild goose pagoda - cool this pagoda was built by tripitaka (Monkey) to house the ... read more

Departed hotel at 8:30 after protracted farewells to rest of family Very slow taxi ride under harbor to Sheung Wan (macau ferry terminal) Left HK at 9:45 Arrived Fu Yong and whizzed straight through customs Got to airport and checked in baggage to safe area Y80 The rest of the family went to China on daytrip on Monday and guide said that HKD was accepted in Shenzhen.....WRONG No atm at the airport would accept mastercard exchanged HKD to RMB 0.90 bad rate Caught Taxi to Windows of the World Y64 (30min trip for AUD11) No english, no accept credit card, no atm that worked....with the help of the guide book we managed to get directions to bank 500m up the road - still had to use visa savings account. On way back from bank two young ... read more