May 30 to June 01 - Macau/Zhuhai

Sooo, we're in MACAU! We took a bus to Zhuhai and then literally walked across the border. We had to go through customs though, but it was quick. First thing we did was explore the streets here, they look pretty ghetto, but we're a little off from downtown. Everybody speaks canto here though, and many speak mandarin. We're almost REAL foreigners now. ohnoes.

Ghetto looking street in Macau.

We found that things are pretty expensive here, for example, this little bowl of soup was like 5 USD. I can only imagine what Hong Kong will be like.

We ended up trying and buying half a pound of pork jerky. Apparently it's a specialty food here.

The next day, we returned to Zhuhai and SHOPPED FOR AN ENTIRE AFTERNOON. (Grace even borrowed 100 of my RMB to buy a coat >>).

I also found the best invention ever. This fan gives off MIST. Wow. Why didn't i think of that?

It's so weird seeing the traffic here, it's the opposite!

We decided that Macau is famous for its casinos, so we hit some up! Here's the best rated one in Macau, the Venetian casino. I think there's one in Vegas too, its like a copy of it probably.

We first hit the gambling area, took a few pictures, and decided to gamble later.

We found this place that looked pretty cool with lots of expensive stores :D.

Then we decided to step outside and find another less expensive casino to gamble at.

We found this one! It was called The Sands.

Grace decided to spend a lot of her money on these random 20 cent, 10 cent, and 5 cent slots.

She also wasted like 50 HKD on roulette.

We agreed to both only gamble away 100HKD each maximum. She won some, but eventually lost it all to slots and roulette.

I decided to test my luck with blackjack.... however, 100HKD was the minimum bet. I went through with it and lost. Oh well. it was fun, they didn't have Texas hold'em anyway.

Grace vowed that she never wanted to go to a casino again. I thought it was alright, it would be more fun if i had lots of money to waste though :D.

Anyway, tomorrow's time for HONGKONG!!! We're taking some ferry over. Should be fun, we'll keep you updated!

May 27 - 29, Kunming/Shenzhen

Our tickets to Kunming!

Just another big city.

We finally decided to visit a nice restaurant, the food was pretty spicy, (but good in my opinion). They gave us our desert first though, which was quite annoying since it was ice cream :(.

While walking around the city, I couldn't help but notice this "Business Hotel" advertisement. It says there's rooms available for 90RMB per 3 hours. Guess theres lots of 3-hour stands going on.

We spent the rest of our time shopping, and then moved on to Shenzhen!

Our tickets to Shenzhen.

The first thing we noticed... was how empty the subways were. This would never happen in Shanghai.

We then found some food. It smelled really good so i was really happy. But then to my demise, i found out all the green vegetables were really hot peppers :(. But i still managed to get through most of it.

Grace and I managed to find a gigantic shopping plaza (somehow we always do), and there grace depleted all of the money she was carrying on her, which was like 300 RMB or something.

Now, time for MACAU!

May 24 to 26 - Sanya

I'm going to have to admit, Sanya a city in Hainan had probably one of the most beautiful coastlines I've ever seen, probably comparable to the Bahamas or Cancun, but I have yet to go to those places.

Here's pictures to prove it.

Us arriving in Haikou, Hainan, it's been a while to get off the airplane via steps.

A poor resolution panorama my phone took, but gives a pretty good idea of the beach!

Of course, we swam a bit in the ocean.

And tanned a bit, (without putting sunscreen on ), BAD idea, still recovering from sunburns haha.

JETSKIING! It was pretty expensive, like 20 USD for 15 mins, but a tooon of fun, I'm considering buying a jetski when i get back to the US and when i'm more rich xD (You can see my sunburn already :( )

After, we decided to buy some seafood. This crab was like 13 USD. Thankfully, it was a really good tasting crab xD.

However, Grace's scallops were only like 2.5 dollars, and they were good too. Darn, guess I should have gotten some of those xD.

We then decided to check out the beach during the sunset, it was quite a sight!

The next day, we went to this tropical rainforest/ethnic area, it was interesting to say the least.

We saw some cool performances too!

After, we said goodbye to our cool tour guide. (Thumbs up is some sort of greeting there)

And we went on another plane to Kunming!

May 22-24 - Guilin/Yangsuo/Nanning

Sorry it's been so long since we last blogged, we've been to MANYY cities in the past few days, and we have pictures to show from all of them! This post is for just Guilin, Yangsuo, and Nanning since we have too many pictures to put in one post! We'll put more a lot more pictures onto facebook when we can, right now the internet's too slow to post :(.

Guilin/Yangsuo: May 22, 2010 to May 24, 2010

Airplane tickets to Guilin from Shanghai :D

We were recieved by Tim Su's mom and uncle/aunt, they were very friendly and treated us to a verryy nice dinner, here's our desert ;)

This is us in front of a really cool lighted bridge on the Lijiang river!

A picture of a ticket we bought to go into this lighted cave thing with lots of stalagmites.

A picture of a scene in the cave, it was really pretty :D

We decided to be cool and have some old guy push us across this lake on a raft after we left the cave to go to the parking lot, lazy us xD

We decided to climb this mountain too, it was a preetty good view, but tiring too.

Later, we decided to climb another mountain called Elephant Trunk mountain, this is Grace still trying to make her way up the stairs :]

After the mountain, we decided to do a little shopping.. this is how one vendor decided to implement a changing room.

We decided to go on the Lijiang river on a little cruise down to Yangsuo, here's Grace holding our expensive tickets.

While on the cruise, I decided to look at the rules for passengers, and I noticed point number 1: Do not throw coins or food to the swimming CHILDREN?!

Grace and I having someone take a picture of us on the river, lots of water and mountains.

In Yangsuo, we did quite a bit of shopping, but this was by far the best buy. This guy has the ability to inscribe our names on a grain of rice, and trap them into an ornament. It was only like 1 USD for each one too! Makes a nice necklace/cell phone decoration.

We decided to watch a pretty light show too, it was made up of like 300 natives, we watched from the side though, since we didn't want to pay the 40 bucks to buy real tickets haha.

So far on the trip, i had gotten like 12 mosquito bites, but I killed one. Revenge!

After that, we left Yangsuo and then went to Nanning.

We only stayed in Nanning for a matter of hours, this is Grace and I before we leave for Sanya.