We literally walked over from Macau to China. It was wierd. We walked through one building and exited Macau and then walked to another building and entered China. On the China side, it was a mad house. People everywhere! And smoking! Everyone smokes there! It was very annoying. The city we entered into was called Zhu Hai. We checked into a Hotel nearby that was supposedly new, but stunk of cigarettes. In our room, there was a box on the nightstand that looked like a box of cigarettes for sale ($25Yuan), but David pointed out that they were condoms. Gross. After checking into the hotel, which was late afternoon on Saturday, November 8th, my aunt took us to this underground shopping mall that was walking distance from the hotel. It was like walking into heaven! I neglected to take a picture of this place cause I was too busy looking at things to buy (our time there was limited – and I was there with several women and we needed to stick together). This place had it all: Gucci, LV, Chanel copies galore! Art work, jewelry, clothes, shoes, food, everything! You also have to be good at bargaining. My aunt bought some scarfs, the price started at $70Yuan each and she got it down to 4 for $100Yuan. I was bummed, most of the clothes didn’t fit.
After being dragged away from the mall by the guys because it was way passed dinner time, my uncle took us to this seafood area. We walked down this alley way of live seafood sold by various vendors and you buy what you want and then take it to the restaurants behind there and they cook it to your liking. It was interesting. We picked up shrimp, eel, razor clams, fish, crab and oysters. Needless to say, the kids didn’t eat much that night. I think we ordered some chicken and they had that with rice. By the time we were done with dinner, it was pretty late. We headed back to our dirty hotel and called it a night. David said he saw 2 roaches in our room too.
The next morning, we had some quick dim sum for breakfast, checked out of the hotel and headed out to the Guangzhou airport via a 2 hour bus ride to head to Guilin.
Seafood alley
Raw Oysters
Raw fish & shark
Razor clams
Eel
Crab
Shrimp shells
Our bus to the Guangzhou airport
One of many of Tyler’s water bottles
Big Uncle enjoying a Chinese branded coca-cola