As mentioned in my previous entry , I had stayed in Guangzhou for 3 days during my hols.
It was my first time travelling to another city in mainland China. The departure hall for inland flights was a bit different from that for international flights. I can’t really describe it but still, I remember that the departure hall for international flights was way nicer.

Departure hall for inland flights:
Shanghai Pudong Airport inland flight departure hall

Shanghai Pudong Airport inland flight departure hall

I thought that we’d be having dinner on the plane but unfortunately we only got drinks and these:
SH to GZ airplane food

I guess it was because we boarded the plane at 8 p.m and most of those chinese people already had dinner. I keep forgetting that in China they usually have dinner at about 5:30 p.m. :???:
I’m used to having dinner at about 8 p.m. That was in Mauritius. In Shanghai, I usually have dinner as from 7 p.m . 5:30 p.m is too early for me.

Tired and hungry when I reached Guangzhou, I didn’t bother taking pics of the new airport. :cry:
It sure looked lovely at night. :)

9 Responses to “My first inland flight in China to Guangzhou”

  • March 6th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
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    Joachim

    Hi Aline!
    I’m glad to see you back =)

    Dinner is take at 5:30 p.m. in China? wow, in France it’s around 8:30 … and in spain it’s not rare to have dinner at 10 p.m. (but lunch is served around 4 p.m.)

    anyway, I hope your trip went well!
    did you took more pictures of the places you visited?

  • March 8th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
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    Andrew

    Hi Aline, haha, yeah in Australia we normally have dinner about 6pm, when I go to Mauritius I’m usually starving by the time they have their dinner, the first time I was there it was quite a shock! By the way, I’m going there on March 22nd for 6 weeks – (you may remember I’ve written previously, my girlfriend lives in Ste Croix) Can’t wait to be back there :)

  • March 9th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
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    Karl

    Same here,I like to take my dinner at about 7 to 8pm too :) (I didn’t know that people in China take an early dinner)

    As usual,the photos are good ^_^

  • March 9th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
    4
    Zhang Liping

    http://sevencastles.blogchina.com
    A Shanghai blog featuring news and views of great interest

  • March 9th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
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    uncle sha

    great to see u’re blogging … yeah over here our dinner is ard 7-8pm .. 530pm there, is there still daylight?

  • March 13th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
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    mrkiasu

    Wonder how come they give cake nia? Didn’t at least give some snack.

  • March 22nd, 2005 at 4:07 pm
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    aline

    I guess you are on your way to Mauritius right now. I miss my home in Ste Croix. I’ll be going back in July. :)
    Enjoy yourself in Mauritius.

  • March 22nd, 2005 at 4:08 pm
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    aline

    yup.I took many pics. I’m going to upload many of them on my blog. Already started with the food photos. hehe

  • March 22nd, 2005 at 4:10 pm
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    aline

    there’s still daylight. It gets dark as from 6 p.m.

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