How I move around in Guangzhou

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How I move around in Guangzhou. Armed myself with a street map of Guangzhou that comes with the metro train route map too. Can get the map from the tourist board office in your own country or at the airport. When I was there, they run out of the English Version of the map at the Guangzhou Airport but luckily I found a tourist office in Beijing Lu Shopping District and got a English Version of the map even though I can read mandarin, I still prefer the English Version cause the information I got are all in English and I am more at ease in the english language cause English is our official language in my country.


You can view a clearer map of the city as well as the metro route map from TravelChinaGuide.


With the help of the information I got from the internet before I arrived in Guangzhou, I easily can move around in Guangzhou and visit the places that I wanted to. :)

The promotional airfare that I got from Singapore Airline is a very good deal. I pay only S$442.90 for Singapore to Guangzhou and back to Singapore per person.

China - Guangzhou Trip - Day 5 - Guangzhou International Airport - Home Sweet Home

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As we took the 1.50 am flight we need to reach the airport two hours before hand for security check. We decided to take the metro train from Haizhu Square to the airport. It was so super cheap at only CNY7. We save so much on transport.


I had a great time in Guangzhou and enjoyed so much and hope to visit Guangzhou again.

As ours was the morning flight, we had breakfast for our inflight meal. Argggg, I was sleeping so comfortably in my seat on SQ flight, my hubby had to wake me up for breakfast. Did not eat much cause I was so sleepy. We actually make a right choice taking the wee morning flight so we could save a night accomodation cause the next flight will be around 12 noon and make no sense to just sleep in the hotel for few hours and to head to the airport at 10 am for security check and dont forget the metro train take about one hour from Haizhu Square to airport. So I figure we had to check out around 8 plus am in order to take the 12 noon flight.

Hubby had fried noodles for his breakfast while mine was omelette and sausage and hash brown.

China - Guangzhou Trip - Day 4 - Grandview Mall

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Being the last day of our short visit to Guangzhou, we decided do some last minute shopping. We took the metro to Tianhe Sports Center Exit D3 and made our way to the biggest mall in Guangzhou.

Grandview Mall located in the heart of Tianhe district. They got super-sized cinema for 3D movies, indoor ice-skating rink, etc. The mall is huge and outside the mall everywhere looked so huge to me too.






I could not see the end of the road, there were so many tall buildings on eitherside of the road that seems to lead no where. Thought I was in the Land of the Giant. So much changes in Guangzhou as compared with my first visit in 1986 (very antique visit lol).


Wow, there were so many people but everywhere in here is peaceful and calm. Very clean and beautiful district.


Saw a familar bank - DBS (Development Bank of Singapore) in Guangzhou. A branch belongs to a major Bank of Singapore.


Amazed by the rows and rows of tall and modern buildings in Guangzhou.

China - Guangzhou Trip - Day4 - Garden Hotel Guangzhou

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I wanted to visit Garden Hotel cause when we first visited Guangzhou in 1986, we stayed in this hotel but this trip I did not stay at Garden Hotel cause I wanted to stay near Pearl River and also the hotel was cheaper over there hahaha.

So much changes, the streets are so much cleaner and not dusty and gone are the hundreds of big black bicycles, they can now afford luxury cars and traffic jam is now a common sight.

I cannot recognized the interior of Garden Hotel anymore except for the reception area. The big beautiful panel at the reception is still the same while everywhere in the hotel had gone for major renovation.

We had dim sum lunch (very late lunch) at Garden Hotel.

Not much choices of dim sum left cause we were very late almost 2 pm. We check out of our hotel Canton Landmark at 1 pm and left our luggage at the hotel's lobby for safekeeping as our flight was about midnight and took the metro to Taojin Metro Station to Garden Hotel (very convenient - the station was just infront of Garden Hotel).

First time I had this deep fried har gow

Deep fried spring roll

Steam har gow

BBQ pork bao (Char Siew Bao)

Glutinous Rice wrapped in lotus leaves


Siew Mai
The dim sum dont costs much but the tea was expensive. Do check the different type of tea. We had chrysathemum tea at CNY25 per person although they come in a pot they counted as per head but have free refill to the teapot. They have even more expensive tea. Do ask for the tea menu if unsure what to order.

There's a 15% service charge to the bill.

China - Guangzhou Trip - Day 4 - Yide Lu

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Yide Road was just a short walk from our hotel at Haizhu Square. (See the above map for Yide Lu/Road and One Link Plaza). Yide Lu is the wholesale market for toys/stationery and also some dried food stuff.

Most sold items in bulks and some do sell to walk in customers.

Saw this beautiful church while walking along Yide Lu. The Stone Church built with pure granite and also known as the Sacred Heart of Jesus.




Hahaha was thinking what is whole salem arket but actually is a spelling mistake should read as wholesale market.


Wow take note of the huge mushrooms.

Was in Guangzhou last month, and they were already selling Chinese New Year decorations. They were really cheap, if you buy more it was so much cheaper and some shops only sells in bulks.


Yide Lu is a very busy road as they were busy doing business. These migrant workers were waiting to deliver goods with their trolley or carts or bicycles. You have to be careful not to block their way cause they were so busy as if they were a colony of ants working very hard. Most of these workers are from other provinces of China that came down to Guangzhou to work.


One Link Plaza - wholesale for stationery and toys - worth going to have a look.

China - Guangzhou Trip - Day 3 - Buffet at Hotel Landmark Canton

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After a long day out, we finally returned to our hotel and have buffet dinner at the highest floor of the hotel. As we are the hotel's guest we got a 15% discount on the buffet.

Love the christmas decoration in the restaurant and they have a great view of Pearl River too but too bad I did not get the window seat.