13th July 2007, Guangzhou

Yuexiu Park (越秀公园) is a big park that is not suitable for a tourist to tour around by foot. I think it is a waste of time to do so as there is not much thing to be seen! The entrance fee is cheap which is RMB5. But then you need to pay entrance fee again for certain attractions inside the park.

We visited the museum which located inside a historical building named 镇海楼 （zhen hai lou） that built in 1380 and renovated in 1928.


You may read the history of the building here and some might be more interested in the wrong spelling for the word "scene" as "sence" on the upper signboard.


On top of the building, you will be able to see Dr. Sun Yat-sen's study room last time and now it is a memorial statue.


Then, we also took photos for the Sculture of Five Rams.
The 5 rams got legend one. About 2000 years ago, the people in Guanzhou were poor and starving even though they worked hard everyday. One day, 5 celestial beings riding on the rams with 6 bundles of spikes reaching to the land. They sent the spikes to the people and granted them with good returns in every year harvesting season. Then, they rose up the sky while the five rams turned into stone rams. So, that is why Guangzhou is referred as "The ram city".

Take a break, have a bottle of coca-cola!


Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Memorial Hall.


The tiles are nice!


I called this "unlucky". When you travel so far and then realised that the place you visit is closed for maintenance.

Inside the hall, this is Dr. Sun Yat-sen's stage!


We had lunch at the nearby restaurant.


We hired a taxi to send us to the oldest temple in Guangzhou "光孝禅寺".
It is built about 1700 years ago. The entrance fee can be made using the MTR card.


We visited another old temple called "六榕寺".
There is a pretty 9-storeys pagoda.

We had successfully climb to the top! Proud!

We took MTR to "陈氏书院" (Chen's School?).

You can find fine carving works done on the roof, wall, and even woods there.




There are some stone and metal sculptures.



There are also exhibitions on fine carving and sewing arts.


Dinner at a famous restaurant "西关人家" where we saw there are a lot of celebrities photos. But the food is just so-so. ;p

We went on Pearl River Night Cruise (珠江夜游) that night. You can learn a lot about Guangzhou during the 2 hours cruise.


End of Day 10.