Blogs from Guangdong, China, Asia - page 10

Weekend Outings Shenzhen is a big city and even though I tried I didn't get to do and see everything but I thought I'd talk about a few of the things I did manage to see and do during the weekends. The weekend after Destry and I went to Hong Kong, Laurent, Destry and I went to Happy Valley. Happy Valley is a theme park in Shenzhen which also has a water park. I'd never been to a proper water park before so the aim of the day was to get on all the water rides. However, when we arrived at the park the water section wasn't open so we went on a few of the theme park rides, including a roller coaster that uses a swing shot motion to activate the car, it was pretty ... read more

Dapeng is a sea side town split in to two parts. There's the newer area of Dapeng and the older area. The older area has a fortress, a temple and an area with lots of bars and restaurants (called the new fortress). From the Shenzhen Dapeng is around an hour and a half journey by bus. As Laurent lived in Dapeng, the Irish and I all spent some time in Dapeng. We had only been to the new fortress and not visited any of the historical parts. So one weekend the four of us decided to go there for that reason. Unfortunately Val was leaving to return to America that day so couldn't join us. We had gone out for a meal the evening before to say goodbye. We started by going to the fortress, a ... read more

Trip details: Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Toronto, Sudbury, Toronto (again), Beijing, Langfang, Beijing (again), and back to Shenzhen. (Pictures: Toronto, Sudbury, Beijing, Langfang, and Shenzhen) Last Few Days Before the Flight Back ... :^( My time in China was coming to a close. At least my first trip in this foreign land far from Canada. I must admit that I have seen very little of China over the past 9 months. The simple beauty of Jinhua, Jishou, and Wuhan; the tourist-traps of Guangzhou and Shenzhen: all this made some of the sights of Paris pale in my memories. It has been a wonderful adventure but, with 4 days left here, I started realizing how much I still had not seen. It was earlier than my originally planned return date of February 19th (2016) and slightly forced ... read more

My incredible luck once more came into effect as I went to visit an area called “Xili Lake”. It is one of the new metro stations created in Shenzhen and I was thinking a nice park could be found there. Instead of a lake with a lakeside park or beach, I found Safari Park Shenzhen. I relished the chance of seeing another wonderful safari park after the great experience I had in Guangzhou (Chimelong Safari) but wasn’t prepared for this slightly smaller place. I will note that with the bright colours and cartoonish statues within the place, the Safari Park Shenzhen is geared for children but still enjoyable for adults (or children of all ages). Once more, I will not list the many animals present in this safari park since you can see all of them ... read more

My second view of Shenzhen: After a 45 minute rapid train ride, I was back in Shenzhen but with an alternate purpose for my visit to here. Yes, I was offered a job to teach English in a high school. It was a bit of a nervous time in my life which colored how I saw this city upon my return. I was also displaced into a new part of Shenzhen which was not the technical end point for my long-term stay here. This 5-month layover spot was an older part of the city which was very similar to where I ended up living in Shenzhen over a year later. Both were beautiful quiet places but very simple in structure and definitely not like my starting point at Luohu (first set of photos). It was here ... read more