boy_fromOz
About boy_fromOz
Member since 16th Aug 07
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Guangdong (Jan 21-25)
Posted by boy_fromOz | 2nd March 2008
I'd booked a room next to Guangzhou's main train station to be well placed for trips out of town, but it proved a mistake at first sight. Ascending from the subway was like entering a Hollywood disaster movie. This is the main square mid-afternoon, two weeks before Chinese New Year.
I'd started this trip in China so that I could leave before the annual holiday armageddon. As it was I was spared any actual threat to life and limb while navigating the Guangzhou region, though the seething crowds combined with the cold and pollution made for a straining visit. It was probably around this time I picked up the nose and chest infection that was to dog me for the next fortnight. Having just covered one half of the family tree in Fujian, however, I wasn't prepar
Travel Blogs boy_fromOz runs
- Deep North postcards - 9 days in Cairns and the Daintree
- Monsoon Coasts - Across the Orient in 40 days
- Beijing Spring - Old China meets New
Trips
Monsoon Coasts (11568 kms)
13 Jan 2008 - 20 Feb 2008
Visiting: Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China.
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