Colonial Shamian Island // Streets off Chang Shou Lu // Police van on the lively Beijing Road // Cantonese street snacks
There is one thing I love about travelling, that is wandering around and savouring the sights, sounds and flavours of a foreign place!
Once, we got lost looking for a place, and I was pretty sure we walked a good 3km around the same place, over and over again. When I was just about to get grumpy and hungry (hey, it rhymes!) somehow, we stumbled upon a street littered with fruit peddlers. It must have been the season for grapes and cherries, because many of them were selling it! The cherries looked really big and juicy (and since they are my favourite!), we bought a couple of hundred grams. And they tasted as good as they look!!! Instant mood lifter ;)
The Cantonese are very entrepreneurial too. At any chance, they will sell something. Anything! There were many places with these 'pop-up' businesses (even along the underground walkway tunnels). However, I saw the local authority chasing them away too :P But the Cantonese are very fast. They always manage to pack up and leave before the authority comes by! I managed to capture two women selling sneakers on their car in a busy area with many locals and tourist around. Other than having sneakers on top of their car, they had many, many boxes of sneakers inside too!
So typical of Chinese, right? :D
A last picture of us fooling around in Shamian Island :) I like this quaint place!
