November 2024 – traveller

Hi I think I have updated this enough now.

China was great, quite a different thing indeed.

11-12 hours in the Airbus to Shanghai PVG

Then not long at all in the Magnetic Levitation train from the airport. 301kmh

First area to visit the French Concession, french flavour from the early 1900s, I think we could have spent a lot of time in this area.

Good public transport, sometimes crowded, QR code on phone for ticket

Underground corridors

Security, bags always x-rayed going in, they want to see any liquid is drinkable.

And old and new buildings about the place.

Some artistic food I did not try

And the well known Shanghai skyline from the Bund.

Heading for 1933 the old slaughter house

Getting there. This is across the road.

And this is it.

Those would have been cattle races I guess.

Looking back across the road.

And at what has been built from the top level.

Awesome brutalism.

Now it is filled with web designers, landscape architects, designers etc, and still being developed.

Old style Shanghai is getting replaced.

Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, the dragon wall, and then more.

Roads

That Shanghai skyline from another direction.

Longhua temple.

The Shanghai Chinese Expo Pavilion

The arrival of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

Leader Deng having a smoke.

Back to the river and heading along it to the center

That’s a lot of apartments.

The Museum in Guangzhou.

Traffic

The Chen Clan Academy

Alleyways

Could remind me of work!

Old Guangzhou

Date and Yam seller with dozing driver

Fresh dates

More alleyways and street scenes, I really like the alleyways.

Then to the stuff I don’t know what it is, what part of an animal, dried, or plant or fungus.

Sending money to dead relatives

Shamain island in Guangzhou

I asked this guy what the thing was (with pointing and scratching my head). He indicated it was for shoving people, crowd control.

They were outside a Primary school that was closing for the day. I don’t know what the threat is but they look to take it fairly seriously

Not far along the kids are just kids though.

Travel in China needs a phone, Alipay, a VPN to get to real internet for Alipay to talk to the bank, powerbanksto keep the phone going, Cameras to charge…

I improved the solution while I was there

And there are these rental powerbanks all over the place

Off to see the five rams, or goats or sheep that brought prosperity to Guangzhou, first a park.

A classy dragon

Reminders of the excesses of the Japanese in an architecture exhibition.

The beasts

Back to the commercial world

And a Bhuddist temple in Guangzhou

Street scenes

A boat trip on the Pearl River, quite the light show they run there

Then a 2 and a half hour bus trip to Shenzhen, to see Leader Deng’s portrait…

A pillow in the Shenzhen Museum.

Rule 3.d keeps the methanol and petrol out.

Then to Window on the World, a n Exhibition, a fun park …

There was going to be a drone show, instead of fireworks that night, but we were too tired to stay for it

Under the pyramids they had quite a fun Indiana Jones odyssey, moving statues, thing swinging in front of you, a mirror maze and puff of air in your face

NY with towers

Back to the street in Shenzhen

And the subway again.

Up to the border at Chung Ying street, where on one side of the rd it is Hong Kong, and the other China, I was not allowed there but hey… Hope the kids liked it, they look suspicious of me, I did find myself to be scary to little Chinese girls.