Originally Posted by
k374
actually I will not be staying in any hotels... in both instances my flight arrives very early morning (6ish am) and departs around 9pm.
If I skip Shenzhen on the way back is there enough in Guanzhou itself to spend a 2nd day there? Or is there anything nearby that is more interesting?
CNN seems to think Shenzhen is one of the most underrated of cities:
http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/10-t...henzhen-307456
I'm in Shenzhen now, and need to spend 4 hours in Guangzhou this afternoon.
-The fast train itself only takes 30 minutes, but I'm not banking on getting one of those (they sell out), so I'm budgeting 1.25 hours plus 30 minutes wait time for this each way
-The required travel time on each end is 1 hour
That's 9.5 hours just to go to a single destination. If I were to try to add on a second destination in Guangzhou, I'd be able to stick to the 9.5 hour total, but would only be able to spend one hour in each place.
The same calculus applies in the reverse direction.