Macau, Zhuhai (stop-over), Shenzhen, and Hongkong...

Our 4-hour trip... that's what my dad wants to call it. because we spent four hours in every part of the itinerary.

4 hours Macau City Tour.
4 hours Hong Kong City Tour.
4 hours at Hong Kong Disneyland.
4 hours Shenzhen, China City Tour.
4 hours at Windows of the World.
4 hours of sleep on the first and second night.

the remaining time was spent mostly for travelling, eating and falling in line at the immigration.

we rode the bus and the uber loooooooooong train for travelling. the train was maybe twice or even thrice as big as the MRT here. it takes 45mins to get from Lu Wo (near Shenzhen) to Hung Hom (a bridge away from Hong Kong). we even had 4 tour guides. wahahaha. Ester, Jackie, Andrew, and Poks. i wonder what 4 stands for in China.

China is uber big. well... i knew it was big. i didn't know it was THAT big. i mean, from Shenzhen, it takes you 3 hours to get to Beijing by plane and 25 hours by train. Come on! SUPER BIG!

on our second night (Hong Kong), we actually spent 2 and a half hours at the immigration on our way back to Shenzhen, China. we arrived there at about 9:25pm. "we" were a group of two: our family of seven and a group of eight FIlipinos that came from Marinduque, Canada and America. we used a group visa, a piece of paper that has a list of our names and genders, etc. so if one of us loses a passport, the whole group can't go pass the immigration. that wasn't the problem, though. the last in the list was KC, a guy. the first problem was, his gender in the paper was Female. and he's gay. "Natuluyan na. Baka 'female' nilagay niya sa form.", we laughed. the other problem was, the computer at the immigration doesn't have any information about KC. so we sat on the floor like squatters and an officer eventually shooed us to sit in a different place.

the head of the immigration gave us a deadline, if the tour guide's agency can't bring a new list to the immigration by 11:55pm (it was 11:25 then), the 14 of us can go back to our hotel in Shenzhen while KC has to return to Hong Kong and meet us in the morning. thankfully, the list made it! at exactly 11:55. and we were uber happy and the experience gave us something to laugh about. traumatized na raw si KC, at hindi na siya babalik ng China. hahaha.

it was fun. bitin nga lang yung trip. we didn't have the time or energy to roam around the streets. well, it's a given when you're in a tour.

we're planning to go to Singapore in three years time. Singapore-Malaysia-Indonesia is also an option. at least doon hindi kailangan ng visa when you cross the border.

it was a wonderful experience. the first time the whole family went out of the country, and we wanna do it again!

oh, and i'm sick of Chinese food. *blek!* even the Pepsi tastes Chinese.