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TRAVEL NOTES
| Guangzhou collage | |
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Five goats monument.
One legend tells that five gods riding on five goats brought the first grain to the city. So, Guangzhou is known as the City of Five Goats. |
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Five-goats monument and five-story pagoda on the background |
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Sun Yatzen Memorial |
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Guangzhou's mosque, with minaret, also known as the
Six Banyan Tree Temple. (The only mosque in the Guangdon province. I have more pictures of Basheer, Sukran and me there, which I haven't scanned yet.) |
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Guangzhou, city view. |
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Guangzhou: Dong Fang Hotel This is where Sukran, Basheer and I stayed on 28 May 1997. I have more pictures of the beautiful Chinese garden, which I haven't scanned yet. |
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Seal of Guangzhou |
| Guangzhou is on the coast
of the South China Sea and 182 kilometers away from Hong Kong, it
is China's largest and most prosperous city in the south, an
important seaport (through the Pearl River) for foreign
trade and a famous historical and cultural city over 2,000 years old. Flowers
are in blossom all the year round, so Guangzhou is called
"the City
of Flowers." Its spots of interest include Yuexiu Park, Guangxiao
Temple, the Octagonal Flower pagoda in the Temple of the Six Banyan
Trees, the Dagoba at Huaishen Temple, and the Mount BaiYun Scenic
Area in the city, and Zhaoqing Seven-Star Rock, Foshan Ancestral
Temple and Conghua Hot Spring outside the city. The city has many monuments honoring its revolutionary past. The monument to the Anti British struggle at San Yuan Li is in remembrance of the 1841 uprising against a British invading force. The Huang Hua Gang Park keeps alive the spirit of the 72 martyrs killed in an 1911 uprising against the Manchu dynasty. The National Peasant Movement Institute is the former cadre-training school founded and run by Mao Ze Dong and Zhou En Lai in 1925-1926. The Guangzhou Memorial Garden is in the memory of those who lost their lives during the Communist Uprising in 1927. Some of this information was obtained from http://www.geocities.com/Baja/3697/e_frame.html, where additional material can be found.
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