Guangzhou Tower is also known as Canton Tower, I don’t know
which one is the popular name. When I was there, I thought it’s famous as
Guangzhou Tower instead of Canton Tower. But I’m not really sure because
everybody was speaking Chinese, LOL.
Guangzhou Tower looks like Tokyo Sky Tree, in my opinion.
Both of them also functioned as Television Tower. Guangzhou Tower’s height was
beaten by Tokyo Sky Tree in 2011. I visited Guangzhou tower during night time so I get to see it color changes. The color changes in like, every 5 seconds, I guess. It came out colorful, or one color like gold, blue, purple, red, etc. See the left picture, it's soo colorful. Meanwhile, Tokyo Sky Tree doesn't change the color periodically in one night, and I visited it in day light, so I only got this picture in the right.
From my hotel in Tian He district, it took about 20 minutes
taxi ride to reach the boat port. It’s a small port for tour purpose only. I’m
sorry I don’t know the port name, or the location name. I just went where my
colleagues took me. Haha.
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| In front of the port building |
The ticket was about 80 yuan/person if I’m not mistaken
(about USD 16.00). This is for probably around 1 to 1,5 hours ride (vaguely remember).
I went there at around 8 PM so it was a bit windy, but I visited in April so the weather was still pretty nice. The boat was decorated with colorful little lamps around it. I think it’s a little bit tacky, but oh well who cares.
I went there at around 8 PM so it was a bit windy, but I visited in April so the weather was still pretty nice. The boat was decorated with colorful little lamps around it. I think it’s a little bit tacky, but oh well who cares.
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| The boat decorated with lamps all over it |
Inside the boat, we were served with Chinese Tea (refill)
and peanuts. There were tables covered in white sheets just like in a
restaurant, with a wide window right beside these tables.
After sitting for 10 minutes, we decided to go to the top of
the boat. There were also tables here, but the atmosphere is more romantic with
all the candles and the flowers and the starry sky. Just the right place to
propose your girlfriend (yeah right).
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| The scenery from the top of the boat |
All of a sudden there was this Chinese guy shouting with
loud voice and was pointing to a certain area on the boat. I was shocked and
thought if there’s an accident or someone was jumping out to the water. But
people were so calm and they started to make a line. Apparently it was for
taking pictures, and people have to move very fast to take turn to get a good
picture angle when the boat was passing right below the Guangzhou Tower.
It was so fast that I didn’t have time to gather up my cute
face and suddenly the cameraman told me to move my ass because it was the next
person’s turn. The picture was printed immediately while we’re on the boat and
we have to pay 20 yuan (USD 2.00) to take it. You don’t have to pay if you
don’t want the pictures, though. But it was already printed, and it looks like
this business strategy is paying them off really well.
Also they print your picture in a small size to put it into
a keychain. It was a D.I.Y. All you have to do is take one key chain and put
your picture in it. Voila!
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| Tada.. Awkwardly posing while holding my camera |
About 6 months after I visited Guangzhou Tower, I went to
Japan and visited Tokyo Sky Tree. I sent my Mom the pictures of these 2 towers,
and I proudly tell her everything about them and how happy I am to have the
opportunity to visit them. But she’s all like: “Why are you so obsessed with
towers? Last time it was tower in China, and now it’s tower in Japan. What is
so special about towers?”. Apparently I suddenly became a tower-freak to her.
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