There is little detail because I have to spend my time on a childish “course journal” for a final-year politics course. Grumble, grumble.
As I suspected, I ended up gawking around Shenzhen on Wednesday instead of taking a bus to Yangshuo.
The border fortifications between the HKSAR and the Mainland are just as imposing as they’ve been hyped up to be.
I took the metro (with nifty electronic tokens like Bangkok) out near the end of the line and surfaced in an alternate reality: the “Overseas Chinese Town” development. It was pretty nice, leafy, uncrowded, etc. All cars, very few bikes. Private bus network. Not gated though, as far as I could tell.
Going to Wal-Mart in China is one of the more unexpected surreal experiences I’ve had. I’ll post more about that when I deal with the pictures.
I’m keeping it simple now: no travel until Tuesday when I fly to Bangkok and do my first solo backpacking since 2004.
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