{"id":1598,"date":"2016-04-10T02:28:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2016-04-10T02:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:29:47","slug":"china-trip-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mkurtz.com\/blog\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"China Trip Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The trip started with a long flight to Shanghai and after about 14 hours travel you’re getting close. But it was just the beginning of the travel day as we met our interpreter and we’re driven from the airport to the main train station, which was about an hour and a half away by car.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t really see much of the nice parts of Shanghai, just going around the outskirts of the motorway but it is very different, and obviously very highly populated. Even in the apartment blocks where people are living on the 35th floor, they still hang the clothes outside to dry, and it’s a real contrast between the old and the new. For example, in the smaller cities they still use bamboo to create scafolding for their buildings (even 10-15 story ones) and here in the city you can see that they use steel poles the same size as bamboo but still lace them together in the exact same way:<\/p>\n

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After we got to the train station we managed to take another high-speed train to the city of Langxi where we were met by yet another driver and finish the day with another hour and a half drive to our first hotel. All in all I believe it was about a 26 hour day first day.<\/p>\n

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Next morning woke up and drove a couple of hours through the countryside to our first manufacturer. After meeting with them all day popped in another car and drove to the airport in Hangzou. From there it was another bumpy two hour flight to South China to the city of Shenzhen. The new Shenzhen airport opened in 2015 and is a spectacular piece of design. One more car ride for another hour and we were finally in our hotel in Donguan\u00a0where we would be staying for the next four or five nights.<\/p>\n\n\t\t