Shortly after airport/railway station pick-up, hotel transfer and luggage settle-down, you just can’t help desiring having your eyes hit by the awesome emblems of Guangzhou one by one. Look up to the five stone rams in Yuexiu Park, the strongest one of which holds ears of rice in the mouth, you would feel a sense of being blessed together with the blessed city you freshly set foot in.

Go visit Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Perhaps you haven’t prepared much insight into what great deeds Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his comrades performed, it doesn’t get in the way of you marveling at the grant bronze statue of Dr. Sun at the central square, the graceful application of sapphire blue, bright red and ochre yellow into the exterior and the stately interior arena.

Following is the tender night. You need to do nothing but enjoy an accompanying dinner buffet and utter your wows at those amazing skylines silhouetted against the blanket of night cloud during the straight 60-minute Pearl River Night Cruise!

Today’s menu is another perfect salad of the modern and the vintage. Shut the delayed introduce book of pre-Asian-Games Guangzhou scenic spots and have a sheer update at Flower City Square. Look at these new skylines like Guangzhou Opera House, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou library, West Tower and Haixinsha Asian Games Park that line together encircling the big square across which the new city axle wire goes. More thrilling is the drop-dead gorgeous bird’s eyes view provider, 600-meter-high Canton Tower!

After landing gently from Canton Tower for lunch, you’re headed for the other ingredient of the salad, namely the old-fashioned Guangzhou. Shift the steeling wheel from new Tianhe District to the traditional Litchi Bay. The over-900-year-old Renwei Temple, arrays of typical Qilou (Arcade buildings) and exquisite Xiguan Mansions are all densified around here. However, don’t drop the European-flavor Shamian Island from the salad though it looks like a dot compared with the large area of the local building. Link the vigorous touch of Gothic, New Classical, French churches, consulates, schools and banks on this island with the elaborate display of Cantonese houses, you’ll somewhat understand the interesting mix-and-match methodology of Guangzhou culture!