Wow! Our adventure in China begins. The plane ride was a
very long, 16 hours total to be exact.
For some of us this was our first international flight. It was interesting to have the bilingual
flight attendants and to get served 3 meals on the ride over the Pacific
Ocean. Many of people would get up
during the flight to stretch and move their legs. Many of us talked to the people sitting near
us. Many of the people were American businessmen
who were headed to China for work. They
shared tips for the trip and cool things to do in the cities we are
visiting.
We started our trip
in Hong Kong. It was great weather today, wasn't super hot but not too cold
either. And we even brought the rain with us, as it rained in the evening.
After arriving in Hong Kong last night we were able to enjoy a huge meal, great
food. And this morning we started the day with a tour of the city of Hong Kong.
It's a very different atmosphere in Hong Kong than what we experience in the
United States. Most Chinese seem to love Americans; we had a lot of people
trying to either take pictures with us or of us. We took a group picture and it
seemed like the Chinese just swarmed towards us to take pictures. While on our
city tour of Hong Kong, the large number of people in a small space came more
and more apparent as everywhere you looked there were buildings and apartments.
The roads are also a lot narrower than we are used to, while we were going up
the tallest peak in Hong Kong, there were many times we were inches from the
rocks on one side and inches from the vehicle in the next lane.
On our tour of the city we saw, a lot of different things.
From apartments with the people hanging their clothes out the window to dry all
the way to stores and different sculptures and structures. We saw some of the
beaches and local people. We also got to see and take pictures with the Money
God statue; it is said that if you rub him you will receive good fortune in
money. The task to do so includes first rubbing his head, then rubbing his
hands, then his feet, and finally his wallet. After doing that you must act as
if you were stuffing your pockets with the money. After that you rub the money
box statue that is located next to it. In addition, we also crossed a bridge
that is said to add 3 years to your life as long as you don't cross back over
it.
We left Hong Kong, made it through both the Hong Kong and
Chinese Customs (in the same building), and are now in our hotel in
Shenzhen. 30 years ago it was a very
poor village and today it is a prosperous city of over 10 million people! Tomorrow starts the adventure in Guangzhou.
Downtown
Beach
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