Guongzhou - loud and clear

Hi! hi! rombongan china telah selamat kembali ke tanah air. Ya, badan semua sakit, duit habis, tapi happy. All in all an enjoyable trip. Group kami 13 orang semua yang mana 12 adalah family. Yang seorang tu groupleader yang mengatur trip untuk office club (my sis office). Kami ni orang luar yang ikut2 office orang punya trip tapi last2 staff semua tarik diri, kami pula yang tinggal.


So this is the story of 4 sisters, 1 brother, 1 sis-inlaw, 4 nieces and 2 nephews, touring Guongzhou, Shenzen, Hongkong and Macau in 6 days. Lets begin :

DAY 1

We arrived at Guongzhou about 2.30pm. Off to lunch. Very bad traffic. It's not weekend. Its Thursday. Punyaaa banyakkk manusia di tempat ni! Congested. We got to the restaurant almost 4pm. Very late lunch.

Qinghai Muslim Restaurant. Sedap makanan dia. Surprising, sebab banyak dengar cerita masakan sini either too masin or tasteless tapi makanan kami sedap-sedap belaka.

Zoom la sendiri ok.

Tapi service dia aduh! punya kasar. Pelayan dia hantar makanan main hentak ja pinggan sampai sekali tu, pecah teapot nya. Seriously. Mengalir air teh dari teapot bottom tu. Bodohkan. Merosakkan harta sendiri.

Anyway, lepas makan, kami di bawa ke Beijing Street. Tempat shopping la . Engine belum panas jadi tiada pembelian dulu. Tapi adalah 'beberapa orang itu' yang terpisah dari kami bila balik bas mengangkut barang., menimbulkan rasa persaingan di kalangan lain. uiii !...awalnya shopping..nantii..

Beijing Street

2 jam di Beijing Street, lepas tu kami pergi PearlRiver Night Cruise. Cruising di waktu malam. Cantiknyaa pemandangan...bangunan2 sekeliling semua diliputi lampu neon.. its a beautiful sight from the river. We couldn't believe it. Just this morning we were in KK, now look at these...

Me & niece

Lepas sejam setengah cruising, kami late dinner, 10pm di restoran yang sama.

Dekat jam 11pm baru check-in hotel. Furama Hotel.

DAY 2

Wake up call 7am. Breakfast 8am. 9 am out touring. First stop, 5 Ram Statue. Ini adalah sebuah taman yang di tengahnya terbina tugu 5 kambing, lambang bagi Guangzhou. Adalah legenda nya, pasal 5 dewa yang jadi kambing atau ada kambing sakti. Entah. Something like that la.

Cantik juga this park. Lush green. It's an old park and it has that ancient look. A vast area. We didn't tour every corner but form where we stood, di sana sini ada cina tua bertaici dan ada yang berdancing. Serius!. Old couples exercising ballroom dancing.

dancing in the park

Diorang ni memang rajin exercise ba kan.Pagi pagi lagi. Bukan macam kita. Bangun-bangun makan nasi lemak.

Next destination, Yuntai Park. Another taman.

Again, beautiful. Very big park. And hilly. None of my sisters sanggup meround (they're just gonna take pictures around the entrance) so I dragged my brother and nephews, I just had to look around. Yes tiring walk, up and down the hill but it was a nice walk, cool weather and the view..gosh..worth the sweat.

amazing landscape don't u think?

and breathtaking rose garden

And just when we reached the top of the hill, we spotted this lady with a tentful of costumes and accessories behind her. Curious, we approached and found that she's offering rental of costumes & pictures. Only 10 yuan. About RM5.40. Thats cheap. Brother got his eye on the pedang samurai and I just love the bright colored korea dress. Apa lagi. Mula la kami berangan.

ala-ala princess bersiar-siar di taman sambil dikawal oleh shogun

We were supposed to meet down 12.30 for the next journey but when the others learned of our adventure up there, semua berlari balik ke bukit tu to take pictures too. They only had 5 minutes. Needless to say they exceeded it. They came down after 30 minutes. Guide was clearly displeased. Alah..next agenda was lunch anyway. Thier pics :-

After lunch we were brought to a silk market.

The kain were all beautiful but no purchases made. Very expensive.



Final tour for the day was Shang Xia Jiu.

A walking street shopping area. Strictly walking. No cars pass here.

Tapi berjalan sampai patah kaki pun memang nda habis. Kawasannya sebesar alam. Dan barangkali sebagai hukuman kerana kelewatan tadi, kami cuma diberi 2 jam, walaupun kami plead more.

So me & sis just chose 1 mall and made some purchases there.

For dinner, we went to a different restaurant. Not as sedap as previous one. Dan lambattt! Kami sampai jam 6pm tapi sudah 7pm masih menunggu. Another thing. We were stunned by the noise. I mean, yes the place was full. But they talk loud here. I mean LOUD. They're practically shouting at each other when having conversation. Dan seperti biasa, tiadalah service nya lemah lembut. Semua kasar. Hempas-hempas. Huh.

bersambung..