Outdoor Excursion in GuangZhou

Maybe it's a bit too late, but I just want to let you guys see what we've been through during the excursion near GuangZhou city. It's actually organized by the school to let us these newcomers to have a brief understanding about GuangZhou. We didn't took that much of photos because there's not much to take as our trip is limited by too many restrictions and rules....

So, back to the point. We took our school bus early in the morning at around 8am and departed with our almost empty stomach. We would be going to 4 main locations, that are The University City, the Military School of Huang Pu, the Coca-Cola factory, and the ice-cream factory. All of them are in GuangZhou so we won't be going anyway further. At first, I thought that we would go places further from GuangZhou. Guess I'm wrong.

There nothing much interesting at the University City. You can lots of universities built and sponsored by the government as part of the "211 Project" of China. They are quite huge and they got their own stadium too. The only place that we went was the some sort of Cultural Village place, but they don't actually look like the one in Kuching, Sarawak because the buildings there are quite modern and empty...It was actually built for exhibition purpose but it was empty when we went there. I took just a few photos there as there is not much to remember but some unique designs, especially the man-made fountain.

This is the entrance to the so-called Cultural Village. Quite misty.

This is the aforementioned man-made fountain. Pretty, right?

Red carpet? Surely not for us to walk on...

Cheese!!

I wondered why i did that pose...looks stupid...
A wider view of the fountain.
Back to the ancient China.
Staircase...really don't know what to say about this.
Standing on the red carpet. Quite empty, huh...

Next stop, the Military School of Huang Pu. Actually, you can't see soldiers or trainees pumping or running here and there with any ammunitions because it was built for soldier training purpose during the Resolution Era in China. It is still a military school here but we can't enter the actual place as it's confidential. We went to their display house and it was quite an honor to see the comrades' living places and how our ancestors in China fought with their soul and might for our freedom and rights. But to be honest, it was also a bit boring because we can't do this and that here...we are even restricted from taking photos. Lucky i can take some.

Outside the entrance to the Military School (in the bus)

Remember the movie "Para Para Sakura"? What a beauty!

Here's the Military School! Aiyay, Sir!
Our classmates. Can you find us both?

First time seeing a real battle cruise. I will actually be fined for taking this photo (as mentioned on the notice board). Military secret, maybe?

Taking photo with a Taiwanese friend.
The place where the soldiers(or camrades) and their leaders used to dine.
The headmaster's office.
Outside the headmaster's office.

We went to the Coca-Cola factory next. It was located near the port. There's not much here for us to take photos because we didn't actually entered the real factory to see those machineries in close distance. We can only see how they pack those drinks from a high corridor, sealed by glasses from the production area. Boring...but at least we got a drink each here and some souvenirs.

Guess what's behind that girl. Cans of Coca-Cola, Mirinda, 7-Up, ......

Ceilings made of glass bottles. What will happen when it falls? ^^

Collections of limited edition Coca-Cola cans.

I took this secretly at the display corridor.

I guess this is the bottling section.

Giant size table tennis bat signed by famous players.
GOLD??

A photo with tons of bottles before leaving.

The ice cream factory is the only place where everyone is excited to go. We never saw how ice cream is made in real. When we reached there, we were given an ice cream each and watched a short video clip about that ice cream brand's history. We were watching while eating ice cream but our main purpose is to see how ice cream is made. We went into a pathway leading to the production area, but we were disappointed because we were actually watching it in the same way we did when we were at the Coca- Cola factory. Disappointed again. And we didn't take any photos there.

We went back to school in the afternoon at around 3pm and we'd skipped the PE class, Woohoo!!

So, i guess the whole trip bored both of us quite a bit as it was out of our expectation. Hope that someday we can go out there by our own and explore more than we did.