210 km cycling behind. I crossed Pearl River in Guangzhou today. Hotel has WiFi, so I use my mobile. (Very difficult to write as for some reason the mobile wants to write all Capital letters to the blog)

This is my last night here in Shenzhen. Tomorrow morning I will start my bicycle ride hopefully quite early to avoid the noon heat. I do not know where I will stay next night but it will be somehere in the outskirts of Guangzhou. I have been quite satisfied with my stay here, (Shenzhen and the hotel) so I have to force myself to leave towards unknown. The afternoon heat is worrying me a bit. Before this entry I added some new pictures from Shenzhen. As I have t...

Today I managed to buy a bicycle. It is not as good and not as big as I had hoped for but "when in Rome do like Romans do". It appears that most Chinese drive all too small bicycles, so I do the same. The bike was cheaper than I had budgeted so I might even leave it in Southeast-Asia when I (propably) fly to India some time next year. I got translation help from a university student selling Motorola phones in a shop. He was very delighted to be able to ...

Here I am at Shenzhen Holiday Inn Express Luohu. You may be able to find the exact location by Google Maps or some similar service. I arrived here yesterday evening. As it was raining and I knew that the hotel was a couple of kilometers from the railway station I took a taxi. As there were no legal taxis around I took a illegal one. I had to once again pay 100 Juan for the trip, although I would have expected it to be officially may be between 20 and 30 Juan. Th...

My stop in Beijing is nearing its end. Ultimately I got the requested ticket to Shenzhen this evening and thus will soon start my trip towards Beijing West Railway Station. Today I visited couple of the old (about 1000 years) royal gerdens next to Forbidden City. Otherwise I have mostly been wandering around random hutongs. As weather has been mainly cloudy and foggy during recent days the temperature has been very convenient except yesterday, when it was sunny a...