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Guangzhou (广州) , located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, China, is one of those port cities that China had opened to the world long time ago. Nowadays, Guangzhou is a very large and quite international friendly city. Apart from its rapidly growing economy each year, Guangzhou is also a beautiful city with lovely sub-tropical climate and various interesting travel sites offering to world. Every year, Guangzhou receipts hundreds of thousands of tourists and business visitors for its beauty and the famous China Export Commodities Fair, also named Canton Fair.
Guangzhou TV Tower, also known as Canton Tower, is a must see site in Guangzhou. With a total height of 618 meters, Canton Tower offers visitors a great bird view of the city at its observation floors on 107 and 108 F.
Pearl River possesses a unique beauty of her own, a Pearl River cruise in Guangzhou is what you truly come here for. 2,129 meters in length made it ranks the third largest river in China.
Shamian Island was a combination of concessions of France and United Kingdom during Qing Dynasty government in the 19th century. After the Independent of People's republic of China, the island is now become a historical area with England and French style architectures attracting tourist who are interesting in that colonial European period and also with quiet pedestrian avenues equipped with western catered café and restaurant.
Chimelong Tourist Resort, must-go destination for those family tour visitors with children, icon of Guangzhou City and popular holiday destination.
Though all visitors have to obtain a visa to visit China, Guangzhou is among those 144-hour-visa-free cities in China. The vis-free policy offers simplified entry and exit procedures for visitors. Visitors can stay for not longer than 144 hours (6 days) without visa as long as you have a valid fly ticket heading to a third country.
Learn more about China’s 144-hour Visa-free Transit ，China 72 Hour Visa Free Policy , China visa application knowledge and China Entry and Exit Tips.
Guangzhou is a quite convenient city for foreign visitors compared to other inland Chinese cities. We don’t think it is necessary to change currency before you arrive here, because you can get money changed at Guangzhou Baiyun airport which is very international standard airport. But if you are worried about the transaction fees and feeling unprepared without some Chinese cash with you, try to change some 5000 yuan in your country will be enough to keep you survive for 2 to 3 days in Guangzhou before you find a reasonable rate.
The city is very foreign friendly for sure. The efficient metro system here will get you to most of the travel site you want and the station names are with English beneath them on the train. The local taxi drivers here in Guangzhou can mange some basic English conversations knowing travel sites, foreigner popular hotels and restaurants & bars. You can download the Guangzhou metro app on your smart phone which also has an English version. You just need to set the app’s language to English version. You can type in the nearest metro station and the station you need to go, the app will map out the most reasonable route for you and suggest you to take which line, you can even purchase metro ticket via the app if your app is bonded with alipay! All you need is an updated Guangzhou map and an efficient smart phone!
However, you should be aware of that Guangzhou is definitely not a low budget city in China. If you are travelling in a short time schedule and prefer to take taxi rides than join the metro queues, be prepared that Guangzhou taxi drivers sometimes won't run metre during rush hours and will over charge foreigner a bit.
The living cost in Guangzhou is simiar costly to that of Beijing or Shanghai if not higher and so as to the travel cost in here.
Guangzhou is an important stopover city for many international flights and is also a large city as a busy destination for many flights from many nations. There are plenty flights between USA or UK to Guangzhou. A flights ticket from New York to Guangzhou will be around 450-700 $ depending the timing and many of them will have a stopover in Moscow, Beijing or Shanghai though. It takes about 30 hours. But, good news is that there is one direct flight offered by one of the Chinese major airlines: China Southern Airlines. It will take only 16 hours from NYK to Guangzhou. Flight from England to Guangzhou is about the same situation of that in USA. A flight ticket from London Heathrow to Guangzhou Baiyun airport will take about 500-700 $ but only take 12 hours if you book a direct flight with China Southern Airlines. Because most flights are non-direct flights stopover at Cairo , Paris , Bangkok , Beijing or shanghai.
The best time to visit Guangzhou is Spring and Autumn. During those seasons, it is less likely bothered by typhoon weathers and nor too warm or cold. However, there are some periods better to be avoided:
Generally speaking, 3 days is good enough to most of Guangzhou.
You can check Guangzhou downtown layout and its tour sites locations in these Tourist map produced by Top China Travel both above and below. Normally, the areas we recommend travellers to stay in Guangzhou are:
At present, Guangzhou has 12 metro lines and one APM. It is quite convenient to travel by metro and it is very cheap! Apart from the crowded carriges at certain lines at rush hours, traveling via metro in Guangzhou can be very efficient compared to traffic on road. Tourist can visit Guangzhou metro official web site for updated info for its metro system and service.
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