Plan your Guangzhou tour? Arriving at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, you have three tools of city transportation to choose bringing you from Baiyun airport to the downtown of Guangzhou city, namely Subway, taxi, shuttle bus. Taking subway when you arrive is most convenient and economical though sometimes it cannot take you to your lodging hotel directly…
Plan your Guangzhou tour? A side trip to Kaiping County, 130km southwest of Guangzhou is highly recommended. Kaiping is world famous for its Diaolou (fortified village houses ), pristine villages and old townships. Kaiping Diaolous and villages were named as World Cultural Heritage in 2007 for their harmonious fusion between Chinese and Western structures. Kaiping…
Plan your Guangzhou tour? If you are pressed for time and would like to visit Guangzhou in one day or just a few hours’ layover tour, my proposed highlight Guangzhou day tour will bring both the modern and ancient Guangzhou to you, which you can customized per your own request. It will spread to you the…
Plan your Guangzhou tour? Currently Guangzhou has thousands of taxis operated by over 80 taxi companies with taxis in different colors such as yellow, blue, maroon. Taking taxi is a common and convenient way for transportation within the city. Taxi Models in Guangzhou The models of taxi in Guangzhou include Jetta, Volkswagen, Santana, Red-flag, Sonata,…
Plan your Guangdong tour? With Guangzhou ( Canton ) as its capital city, Guangdong Province is often considered as the southern gate to the mainland China, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau. Guangdong is historically known as the starting point of Maritime Silk Road and the birthplace of China’s revolutionary past. The northern Guangdong is home…
Plan your Guangzhou Tour? As the capital and largest city of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou is especially prosperous in commerce, tourism, dining, finance and real estate. Guangzhou is a busy city all year round. It enjoys a typical subtropical monsoon climate, the temperature is moderate all the year round. The high rainfall period of Guangzhou is during…
Guangzhou is oft-lauded as the “Southern Gate to China”, one of the three megacities in China and other two are Beijing and Shanghai. The three metropolitan cities are competing for the tallest building and currently Shanghai is the winner with Shanghai Tower the tallest at 632 meters and Guangzhou Tower the second 600 meters. Of course,…
Mausoleum of the Nanyue King is officially known as the Western Han Museum of the Nanyue King Mausoleum (西汉南越王博物馆). If you are interested in history or archiology, Mausoleum of the Nanyue King is a nice place to go on your short Guangzhou tour. The museum is built on the burial site of Zhao Mo, the…