Tour of South China- Day V Shenzhen

As this was our last day in China, we had a little bit of a lie-in before we were taken to an extremely large shopping mall, or more accurately, several shopping malls which were linked together. By mutual agreement, the ladies decided that they would go shopping leaving the men to do their own thing. We decided to go to a day spa, which was eye opening to say the least. This place was LARGE! By that I mean,  you enter on the first floor, which housed the changing  and shower rooms. Then via a lift, you are then taken to the lounge floor which had at least 200 large  and sumptuous recliners, each with it's own personal mini LCD monitor. There you could get massages for you feet, head and back. I also had my ears cleaned. There was a whole list of pampering you could get done whilst you were seated in those recliners. 

So after 2 hours of pampering, we left to meet up with the ladies and got ready to leave for the airport.

At the Airport, we said goodbye to our local guide, Mary. We were then greeted by the news that the Air Asia flight was possibly delayed. There was confusion as the monitor display indicated that the flight was delayed 'til 12 am, however the counter staff said that the flight was on scheduled to fly at 10pm. Typical Air Bloody Asia. Anyway we were mollified when Raven, our tour coordinator informed us that she bought a roast goose soas we do not go hungry during the wait for the plane. Unfortunately, the photos of us enjoying our last pig-out of this tour was lost when airport security requested that Yew Pun delete the photos as we were by the exist gate.

As it turns out, the Air Asia fight was late getting in, so we had to endure a 2 hour delay. Which meant that we arrived back in LCCT at 3 am. There the group split up and went our separate ways. I bummed a lift with Yew Pun and Doreen, who dropped me off at Straits Meridian at 5.30 am.

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Tour of South China- Day IV Shenzhen

After last night's fun at the karaoke, it was a bit of an effort to wake oneself up and get down to breakfast. I also had trouble finding the coffeehouse as I did not remember being told that it was on the fifth floor. So after an unscheduled tour of the "Mary Celeste" I finally found the coffeehouse and gobbled down my breakfast in 15 minutes.

Then it was off in the mini-bus to Shenzhen. Needless to say I slept most of the way, only to wake up periodically for a wee at a rest stop. We finally arrived in Shenzhen at approximately 3 pm where we decided to find some food after checking into "Days Inn". Of all things, we found a halal cafe which was still serving food at that time of day. This was the place where I had my "shaggy yak" noodle, which wa

s detailed in an earlier post.

After an afternoon rest it was then off to a very touristy cultural s

how. It was bright and spectacular, more Las Vegas then traditional China. 

Then it was off to dinner at yet another randomly selected restaurant. Once again we had a feast, this time around, the herbal soup took centre stage; as we all tried to guess what was in it. We of course could not, however, it did not stop us from ordering a second pot of the same soup. However a bitter taste was left in our mouths, when the bill came with a 800 remimbi "arithmetical error".   

After last night's drunken frolics, an early night was the order for the day.