Guangzhou-Shengzhen-Hong Kong - Day 3

Third day in Gangzhou. Today's plan is more shopping for textiles and electronic items. First stop to Baiyun textile again as some of us have made booking earlier. ...

As mentioned earlier each complex is huge and full of all sort of textiles..Everywhere you look cloths everywhere and full of activities. People carting their goods up and down the alleys, lifts, tri-cycles, vans etc

Everyone here uses these modified electric bicycles to get around ....cool 

Business transactions done on the go....

Another modified type of electric bicycle.....this time with an umbrella attached for the cyclist and his passenger

While some of our friends does their shopping, we were left waiting waiting waiting waiting....(sampai bila kena wait sahaja daaaaa? 

Later we found out that the materials we ordered yesterday has not arrived thus causing the delay ....haiyaa 

Finally one part done..Next we took a taxi to our next target destination. Off to Tianhe district where its well know for its electronic products.

Some view of the city below.......the Canton tower view again (bila teringat masih frust sebab tak dapat naik cable car huhuhu)

More high rise buildings in the making....(the fastest rising economy in the world for now !!)

The taxi dropped us to one of the area at Tianhe district but its not what we were looking for. There was only few shops selling electronics and mostly consists of offices.

After asking for directions from few people, we were shown the way to the shopping district. This time we plan to take the bus. So we walked for some distance towards the bus terminal

The terminal is large, clean and the bus services is efficient......

We reached our destination but to cross to the other side of the road we need to walk down the subway and up again. The first round was unsuccessful as we exited on the wrong side of the street.

So off to the subway again...phuhhhh huhuhu @^#&$$%$ at last reached the other side

Entered the shopping center which was a high end shopping mall....Naaahh not our taste and budget...

Wish we had the Batmobile here to bring us around the city hehehehe

Saw this Pappa Roti outlet....sounds like Malaysian yaaa ....roti roti roti. So we stopped by for light tea break and had some bread..

Waaaahhhhh ada teh tarik Malaysian style!!!

After tea break we went out from the mall and took separate taxi to a nearby electronic shopping mall. But alas we did not meet the next group. So we went separated ways again.

This is where we bought some camera accessories selling at a bargain.

Then we wandered around looking for our fellow friends but sadly did not find them. We went throughout all over area and there were rows and rows of shop selling computer gadgets, reconditioned notebook and desktops, power banks, usb ports etc...you name it and you got it here....From the looks of it does not look quite genuine though...

After failing to find them we headed to Beijing Lu for dinner and back to hotel for quick shower

Then off to Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street again to the shop at where we promised to go yesterday.

Ms Tina - the friendly and patience sales. (Kedai dah tutup pun boleh buka balik gara-gara layan karenah kami sampai tutup kedai pukul 1:30 pagi hehehehe)

I want that pleaseeeeee.......

After tense price negotiations and not forgetting our Malaysian habit (ada free give tak????), we went back to our hotel after a long and tiring day.

Tomorrow, we will check out and leave Guangzhou for Shengzhen yeaaaaaa

C u in the next updates

Guangzhou-Shengzhen-Hong Kong - Day 2

Morning my friends...today we are going on a few destinations around Guangzhou city. By the way here are a few tips when travelling:

• plan and do some research of your routes early
• its good if you could get the locals to assist you. And the best source of info or assistance always comes from the ever helpful bell boys. Here in Guangzhou our bell boy Mr Ben is super helpful. He can understand English and knows the areas well and at the same time we found out on our last day that he is also the 'manager' of a rental car company. Wow can you believe it?? His job as  a bell boy is just a part time...hhrmmm (am trying to search his name card and post it later)
  To get to places he will translate and write in Chinese character for us to show to the taxi driver as the pronunciation is totally different from what we use to say.
• Always keep the hotel card in case you need to show anyone the direction to return to the hotel later

Enough of that...let go out and explore....

1st stop - Guangzhou Baiyun World leather shopping center. Its about 5 km from our hotel. What is interesting about China is that each town and cities offers their unique products. for example in this Baiyun districts almost everywhere you go, seems like everyone is selling all types of textiles, clothing, clothing materials and accessories, leather products etc..

Pleazeee...not to bring back those oversize bags

Ladies paradise .......

Let the ladies do their shopping. We spent almost 3 hours exploring this single plaza alone (takpe nanti my turn pulak tau....)

Part of the textile city....busy busy busy

After what felt like almost eternity, we decided to split groups. YB, Shah and wife will continue with their shopping around the textile city while we headed to another location

And our next destination is my favorite shopping place i.e. motorcycle accessories shopping center. However to get there was a big challenge. Almost everyone we asked either does not know where the place was or just don't want to 'layan' (entertain) us. I almost gave up. Until we met one of the local taxi agent who claim that they knew where the place was. We were quite hesitant but decided to take the taxi anyway.

It was quite a long journey which took us almost 45 minutes. For a moment we thought we had been hit..damnn. The taxi driver could not speak English and tried few times to drop us which we felt not exactly where we wanted to go. Until we saw it entered to a town where there were many workshops and tyre replacement shops. Aaahhh...that's more like it.

We got off and the taxi driver gesture for additional fare but we refuse to budge as we had earlier agreed on the fare. So he left us there with what sounded like 'unsatisfactory remarks'.....so what???

This area is exactly what I was hoping for. Rows n rows of motorcycle shops selling everything that I wanted to search for. At the entrance there was a kinda Export center where they provided me with the list of shops around the area, with contacts, types of shops and their products....cool

To say the least, this time its my time to spend almost 3 hours here..hehehe. while my spouse spent her time at the Export center. She was entertained by this lady who was super friendly although she only can speak a little of English.  Did not manage to complete to visiting all the shops here but the managed to buy the stuff I wanted at a super price compared back home.

At almost 5 pm, the lady arrange for a taxi for us to head back to the hotel to meet up with our group. But alas they were not at their rooms. But luckily we know in our itinerary we had planned to do more some shopping at Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street.

After a quick shower and short rest we headed to Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street by taxi.

Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street is another popular street selling all kinds of stuff from leather goods, clothing, baggage and electronic products

And true enough we met YB and geng nearby...so my friends remember to share your plan with your group and set a meeting point should we split up

Found another stall selling the satay and roti...so makan time for today.We did not have any proper meal in the afternoon.

Let's enjoy the view of Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street

They have many bronze art statues here.....

Group photo.....

Police buggy...

YB met a Malaysian auntie there.....

We stayed there until all the shop almost close...drop by to one of the electronic shops selling all kinds of hand phones and gadgets..we negotiated for the best price but did not buy much (jual mahal konon) and promise to come back again here tomorrow for another round of shopping.

It was already late and we headed back to the hotel by taxi and can't wait for another day in Guangzhou..

c ya later...bye