Shenzhen

appears to be only a segue.

oh well!

It was the first place where I set foot in the People’s Republic of China.

I had gone up there on a day trip with a friend of mine. We were staying in Hong Kong. (It was still a British territory at the time.)

It was an interesting contrast from the orderly society that we saw in Hong Kong.

It was January and it was spring at that time, New year holidays , i enjoyed thoroughly …

I saw Hongkong on the way , and the Plcae was really cool …
People were very helpful …

Its a nice place , where i want to go again …..

Not a very picturesque city. Supposedly not very safe so you’ll see tons of policemen walking around. Make it a day trip if you have to. I went shopping at Lao Jie and they really do have cheap stuff but quality can be really poor.

The only part that I hated about our Hong Kong trip, was that when we got to Shenzhen…they led us twice to two museums where at the end of the museum tour…they kept leading us to a room inside where they would sell us Jade jewelries. We were hungry, tired (mostly of their selling because by that time our pockets were already empty) and we just wanted to go back to Hong Kong.

Well, in Hong Kong, I also hated the part where every time we rode the bus, our tour guide would always sell us something new. 1st day – extra tours, 2nd day – key chains…next, our GORGEOUS pictures embedded in small Chinese plates (w/c you couldn’t resist because somehow your picture would end up really nice and you suddenly look photogenic…grr). My mom called it…like some highway robbery or something? I forgot the term…anyway I didn’t enjoy our Shenzhen tour because we didn’t get to see the nice malls and places there. After Windows of the World, they led us again to a museum and when we were hungry, they brought us yet again to another Chinese restaurant…and that awful smell and taste again…ugh.

By that time, it was already late at night, we were all hot headed…irritated…and lastly they brought us to this cheap and dirty mall when it was nearly closing time. Great. Why they brought us there? I really don’t know. And all the beggars would just bug us and would really never leave us alone because we didn’t give them something. But if you start giving away something, all the rest would go to you and expect something from you so…grr…and they speak Tagalog w/c really shocked all of us. Chinese people speaking Filipino? “Maganda!!!” “Palimos po…” Impressive…

Yay! I explored it alone but I never felt soo alone, everyone was helpful and very much approachable. I’d love to stay for a few more days when I go back again.

May be fun if you have a bag of $$ to set-up a sweatshop. Nothing to see here.

dont do much things here,, only went to the theme park, happy kingdom, hahahaha such a child, but it was great, just like another theme park.. cheap things here… if u go to hongkong, Shenzhen is one whole package, by hongkong kcr, go to the end of the station (forget the name), made visa on arrival (about 150 hk$), then free to travel, but people were not using english much, so dont go there without someone speaks chinese..

I spent the past year teaching English in Shenzhen. It is a nice city because it’s very comfortable, there are many foreigners, and the Chinese people are from all over the country. there is very little history because it’s a brand new city, and it’s all about money and looks.