"Guangzhou" a Guangzhou Travel Page by klj&a

The thing that struck me about Guangzhou is how much growth is going on there. I'm sure this is probably true for most cities in China. The number of cranes that are erected to build huge skycrapers can be seen everywhere you look. I imagine this is what cities in the U.S. looked like in their infancy. The other things that struck me is the just sheer number of people. It definitely keeps the city and streets alive. The restaurants in the area are huge. I wouldn't doubt that many of these restaurants can service 500 people. I also noticed that the buses had flat screen monitors in the buses in the front and back. Not sure if this was purely for advertisements or entertainment.

Off the main streets I found these narrow pedestrian only streets that were in between apartments. The streets were filled with small vendors(produce, seafood, tea, barbers, flower shops, herb shops, small restaurants. Of course these shops are frequented mainly by locals in the neighborhood, but it was refeshing to see instead of huge mega stores like Best Buy, Costco, Home Depot, etc like we see in the states.