Guangzhou

A very easy flight across the Pacific. I pretty much slept, watched a few movies and zoned out for hours upon hours listening to Taylor Swift. It was glorious.

Hong Kong airport was a breeze to get through. We had a driver waiting to take us the three hours into mainland China. We are currently at the border crossing. I love a mini van and we are in a fancy Toyota in comfortable reclining chairs. Our driver doesn’t speak English but he handed Brad a headset so they could speak freely with translation. Very handy!

We were able to see a taste of mainland… and the lights and building are what I expected. We cross at Shenzhen but won’t be visiting the city until the end of the trip. First stop Guangzhou.

We are using our roaming that is included with our Rogers and a quick speed test shows that our traffic is routing through Shaw Vancouver. Hopefully that stays that way!

This is just outside of Shenzhen.

We are nicely settled into the Conrad Ghanzhou. Our room is quite lovely and thanks to Brad (and the rate he got that is only available through travel agents, which he now is) we got upgraded and free breakfast everyday. I’m excited about that!

We also learned that water in China isn’t potable in most locations due to underlying old pipes, even in the newer buildings. We would probably be fine since the hotel does filter, but we aren’t going to risk a Charlotte in the shower situation and will use bottled water to brush our teeth.