Category: China
SHENZHEN EAT STREETS The Chinese love to eat. They love the company of other people. They are absolutely addicted to noise. Put these together with hot nights and giant …
PACKING CHECKLIST You can buy almost anything you need in Shenzhen with the exception of Western larger size clothing and shoes. See Shopping Section for information on buying Western …
COASTAL CITY AND POLY PLAZA SHENZHEN We deal with them together because they are together geographically. We said that we thought the built environment of Garden City was the …
LOCAL TIME Shenzhen is eight hours ahead of GMT and is in the same time zone as Hong Kong and Beijing. China does not have daylight saving. CLIMATE At …
Next morning we emerged refreshed and girded our loins for the one mile walk to Nan’ao. It was hot, sun beating down on us, sweat pouring from us. We …
FUTIAN SHUI WEI VILLAGE, HUANGGANG VILLAGE SHENZHEN These two villages are situated just north of the Huang Gang border crossing and south of the CBD around Cai Tian and …
AMBULANCESChinese Ambulances just transport people to hospital and the personnel usually have little medical training. If possible, travellers should take taxis or any available transport to nearest major hospital …
Outside the fort is a large statue, in the modern mode, of Lin Zexu. Lin was born in 1785 in Fujian. He succeeded brilliantly in the Official Examinations where …