Heat wave in Guangzhou

Guangzhou is one of the easiest cities to transfer over to Hong Kong, so for this reason we took a quick stop over to see the city. Unexpected to both of us the city was huge, I mean everywhere in China is big, but Guangzhou is something else. We stayed across the river from the main city on Bar Street, as it was known to the locals. We didn't get up to that much in Guangzhou since there isnt that much to do there. We did however go for a game of tennis, which was nice for a change, but the heat soon got the better of us, other than Xiamen, which was warmer than usual, it was our first encounter since India with really high temperatures...... here comes the sun.

We went to a massive park within the city to have a little walkies, get an ice cream etc, and we ended up finding the recreational area of the park, boy how fun it was. We watched a few games of intense ping pong, then took a walk through the gym area, where I found a elderly fella, who looked to be a janitor of some sort with his massive set of keys jingling by his side, who could do an incredible number of rotations on a pull up bar. He would do a pull up, then flip all the way over the bar (feet first) and repeat. I could do two, he had good technique man. On our exit I was offered to have a quick bash at table tennis, where once again I was humiliated. Chinese barstads! It was strange seeing all the adults and elderly folk getting so much use out of there local park and its equipment, I asked Maj 'I wonder why people back home dont act this way?' His response, 'Cuz they'll get pointed at and be called peado's'..............He had a point.



We met two girls here called Abbie and Nadine who were also going to Hong Kong and south-east Asia. We had already planned to meet up with Elliot in Hong Kong and a few other guys, so we decided to invite the girls along too. Chinese new year was just around the corner and we had a great set-up ready for the celebrations.

We also saw the Gunagzhou west tower, which ranks at number 9 on the list of tallest skyscrapers 1,444 ft.

Guangzhou photo link:

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