Beginning of the most awesome trip: In China, there's a long holiday in the autumn called The Golden Week. This year, there was two national holidays during the week. First was the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's a long tradition, and basically people celebrate the harvest during the 9th full moon in the Moon calendar. According to the legend, Chang'e, the Moon Goddess of Immortality lives on the moon, and during the 9th moon she is the nearest to her lover on earth ...

Before we left, we bought Lonely Planets travel guide to China. It's been a great help since the first day in China. You should get it as soon as possible when you have decided to travel or study in China. It contains a lot of useful information about everything you need during traveling. Visa applying, how to order food, basic phrases, transportation, sights etc. etc. Also a good place of information was the package our exchange organization Asia Exchange (www.a...

We already knew that Guangzhou is huge, but the first taxi ride to the city center was mind-blowing. Taxis of Guangzhou are easy to spot due to their coloring, they are air-cooled and generally in good shape. Half of the trunk was occupied by a huge gas(oline?) tank. We had so big luggage bags that it was hard to put even one inside the trunk. Even then, it was left half open. You could hear honking behind when the trunk opened during the drive, fortunately the t...

In the planeTravelling long distances is hard for children, so therefore we started to train or guide our daughter few months earlier for the trip: how to behave in a plane and in the airport. This would be Amelia's first flight. We watched pictures of airplanes and told stories about how airplanes work and about our earlier vacations so she could get a clear image of what is coming. We told about the security checks and how the bags are placed and fetched from...

We are a couple of hipsters studying industrial design in Kuopio Academy of Design, Savonia UAS, Finland. Our destination is Guangzhou, P.R.Chinas 3rd largest city in Southern China, "Canton" or Guangdong province. We are going to study abroad in Guangzhou University via Asia Exchange program. Right now we are in a train to the Helsinki airport. We are an open-minded and inventive geeky couple, excited about our trip to China. What makes our trip special is th...