Day 2 and 3

Day 2 ended up being a big history lesson, I don't really mind them :).

Anyway, we drove 2 hours East / South East of Guangzhou and arrived at pretty much the "mouth" of the Pearl River, you could argue that the mouth is really where Hong Kong is, but for most of the last century, this was the "mouth" of the Pearl River that China controlled. The place was called Hu Men (tiger's mouth literally).

Local sights included some coastal batteries that remained from the days of the Opium War, a lookout to the general direction of Hong Kong (not that you could really see Hong Kong), a HUGE bridge across the mouth of the river (they had put under water barricades/stakes here during the Opium War to stop British ships heading into Guangzhou proper), and the Opium War museum, which was on the site of where 2 million crates of Opium were destroyed.

Day 3, I went lychee picking, I'm not too big a fan of them (too sweet) but there's a town close to Guangzhou that is quite famous for its lychees, one of the driver's at Mum's school owned a plot of land, so we headed out there, en route, we also saw a few banana trees, and some rice paddies (minus people in straw hats... sorry Jared).

Let me know via e-mail if anything comes out bung (pref. with screenshot). China has blocked blogspot.com (so i can't view my own blog!!!!).

Sorry, having trouble uploading photos... will have to try something else, maybe someone could lend me some webspace somewhere?? :)