If people have not ever heard about Guangzhou, they've probably heard about the famous neighbor city, Shenzhen. This special commercial area has been built to look like a new metropolis and nowadays is full of businessmen all around the world. I haven't heard too much good about the city, but still I didn't want to believe all the bad rumors about it, I wanted to experience it by myself. I have few old friends from Finland who are also studying in China at th...

After the Yangshuo trip, me and two of my Italian friends and one Finnish girl continued our trip to the next city. We took a bus to place called Guilin. It was much bigger a city than Yangshuo but very beautiful also. In the evening we just walked around the city little bit but went to bed pretty early. We had booked a whole day trip to Longshen and Dragon Backbone Rice terraces, so we had to wake up early. Next morning we left the city at 8 am. We decided to...

Hi! It's been a little while when I have last time written my blog. We have been travelling a lot during the last 3 weeks, so I haven't been much in front of my computer, but I have collected a big punch of travelling tips for you. :) Here is the story of our fist trip to the neighbour province. This place is something you shouldn't miss if you're in China: In the beginning of April we had a long weekend because 6th of April is a national holiday in here. We w...

On Wednesday we had a city tour which was arranged by our University. We started our day very early by meeting our guide at the campus. At first went to Yue Xiu Xin Hui's Park, where is the symbol statue of Guangzhou, statue of Five goats. Guangzhou's other name is a Goat City. It comes from the fact that long time ago, at the time of famine, there came many people to Guangzhou from abroad and brought goats with them. During the whole trip, goats had carried ri...

Hey! One awesome week has gone again. Language studies were a bit difficult, but because we are only eight persons in our class, luckily the teaching is very individual. This week we were very lucky and were able negotiate us three day-weekends for the whole semester! On Fridays we were suppose to have only 2 hours lecture and nothing else. Our friendly teacher was only happy to postpone the Friday morning lectures to Thursday afternoon, so we could travel and...