Guangzhou - Guilin Trip 2014 : Day 1

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Lama dah tak update blog ni kan ... ni pun rasa malas bebenor nak update ... tapi kang takde dalam rekod pulak ... macam Batam Trip early this year...hehe .... punye la lama dalam draft ... tu pun tak habis2 mengarang kekekeke .....

Pwincess baru je balik dr Guangzhou - Guilin trip  ni ... sebelum terlupe pasal vacation ni, kena cepat-cepat blog about it. Trip ni actually dari awal tahun lagi berura-ura nak pergi ... tapi setakat cakap-cakap tanpa action .... ni dah 5 bulan pregnant haaa baru lah terkocoh-kocoh cari travel agent bagai. Honestly, I prefer to DIY your trip ... tapi memandangkan pwincess akan travel with a toddler and being pregnant dan Encik Mon tak ikut sekali, decision untuk join travel agent adalah yang terbaik buat masa ini ... that was what I thought ....so this trip, adult fare is RM2,799 dan little button kalau tak silap RM2,612 ... kami travel bersama my parents ... so amek bilik berdua for each pair since we were told that hotel di sana usually 3-star (sempit). 

8 Oct 2014

This trip was from 8 Oct - 12 Oct 2014 ... 5 hari 4 malam dan penerbangan adalah dengan China Southern Airline. Flight from KL to Guangzhou approximately 3 hours and 50 minutes. Food served was halal .... we were given a choice either fish rice or chicken noodle. I chose the latter for myself and fish rice for little button. Food was not that yummy ... but I ate it all anyway. Rezeki jangan ditolak lah katakan....Sampai-sampai je Baiyun Airport dalam pukul 2 petang lebih ... and nak claim baggage bagai, dalam kul 3 lebih gak la nak naik bas. Baiyun airport sangat besar .... berpeluh gak lah nak berjalan dalam tu. 

Cuaca di Guangzhou sangatlah teramat panas - 31 degrees!! Terkejut hokey .... because sebelum pergi dah buat la research ... it should be autumn now ... and suhu dalam 19-22 degrees cenggitu .... just nice lah, macam sejuk-sejuk aircond kita kat sini. makcik-makcik semua yang dah siap bawak jaket tebal semua pack balik masuk dlm beg. 

Lagi satu yang mengejutkan ialah jalan sana sini di Guangzhou adalah teramat congested .... penat weih. Tour guide kata we are very lucky because they just ended their national holidays, from 1 Oct - 7 Oct ... during those days, everywhere adalah sangat packed. adoyai ... kalau ni pun dah jammed, caner lah ye mase national holidays derang tu kan. Our first stop in Guangzhou is Huaisheng Mosque ... dalam perjalanan nak menuju ke Huaisheng Mosque ... ader pulak orang tak tahan nak ke toilet .... so terpaksa drop dia kat hotel tepi-tepi jalan tu dan kita terpaksa mengharungi balik jem utk buat satu pusingan. huhu. 

Last-last, sampai pun di Huaisheng Mosque. We all performed our Zuhur-Asar prayer here ... cantik masjidnya. Ada unsur-unsur budaya Cina di sini. This is said to be one of the oldest mosques in the world ... and is also called the Light Tower Mosque since the tower once had a beacon light on top for ships. 

Rata-rata blog kata please beli satay kambing yang dijual di area masjid ni ... unfortunately, tak nampak sorang pun penjual satay kambing ke, ayam ke, atau apa2 jenis satay pun. 

Byk kedai menjual makanan halal di luar perkarangan masjid Huaisheng

Next, we went to Yuexia Park or also known as the "5 Rams Sculpture". We were told by the tour guide that this 5 Rams Sculpture is a symbol of Guangzhou. If you have been to this place, it means you have been to  Guangzhou. Legend has it that many thousands of years ago, the immortals had gifted the city with five lucky rams that turned into stone.

Entrance of Yuexia Park

The trademark of Guangzhou - 5 Rams Sculpture

After that we headed to a Muslim Restaurant for our dinner. By now, I felt really exhausted oh boy. Terdapat juga pilihan lawatan tambahan on that night : Pearl River Night Cruise (150 Yuan=USD 25=RM75). For those who opted not to join had to wait in the bus ... before everyone got to check into the hotel. 

Our cruise - Bank of Guangzhou

Scenery around the riverbank

Pearl River

Guangzhou Tower at night

The cruise took 1 hour and we were served bottomless chinese tea. Dari boat boleh nampak macam bangunan tinggi pencakar langit di sekeliling ... dan bridge as well as Guangzhou Tower ... cantik dia berubah-ubah lampu warna-warni every minute. Ada juga photographer yang khabarnya mengambil gambar FOC .... lepas snap, dia bagi slip, dan kita kena collect the hard copy later ... sekali mase nak collect, kena bayar 20 Yuan utk sekeping gambar .... hahaha ... semua orang sudah terkena la beb ~

By now, mmg terserlah la kepenatan semua orang .... so kita pun pergi check in otel. We stayed in Euro Asia Hotel. Bilik pwincess adalah corner lot, alhamdulillah luas sangat-sangat. This hotel provided kettle, hair dryer, TV and lots of power plug but no fridge. As you can see, the room is lacking in brightness.

dekat hujung kiri tu pun ade space lagi, study table and such

That's it for Day 1 !
Night night ~