Train ride from Yongding to Shenzhen

Photo taken on 7th August 2010.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5.

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Backlog. I traveled to China in August 2010 and these photos are from that trip.
Dug this out from my draft folder. 

I took the train from Yongding (永定) to Shenzhen (深圳),
Yong Ding train station was much smaller than Wuyishan’s (武夷山) train station.

That’s the train I took.

Fuchou (福州) to Shenzen (深圳)

Once again. I’m really impressed with the quality of China’s train. It’s clean & the seats are not bad.
And there’s TV in the train!

The food cart lady who sells food, snacks & drinks came a few times during the journey.

Chinese auspicious paper cutting stickers on the train window.

My friend bought their lunch box. Not sure if it’s good…

Dapu (大浦). A station we passed by in Guang zhou (广州).

OMG. These Fuchou fish balls really looks very yummy yah!!!
I didn’t have it coz’ I shouldn’t be taking any seafood bcoz
of the Chinese medicine I was taking for my injury at that time.

We reached Shenzhen at around 3pm plus.

One last picture of the train seats.

Oh. My friend told me that’s the express train on the right.

From here, I struggled all the way to the immigration which is so far away from the train platform.
It was quite a pain to walk with my injured leg :o
And my poor friend had to carry my backpack for me :o
Super sorry and thank you so much :o

Oh. btw. I found a very useful page with information on traveling by train in China over here>>

I also traveled by train from Wuyishan to Xiamen which I’ve blogged over here>>
If you want to read more about my China trip, have a look at the links at this page >>

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Listening to flumpool 「36℃」

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[China] Hakka earthen building – Sheng wu lou (縄武楼)

Photo taken on 5th August 2010.
Kodak 200 film. Canon EOS 300 camera.

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Sheng wu lou (縄武楼), Hakka tulou (客家土楼） 

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*These photo were taken during summer 2010*

Sheng wu lou (縄武楼) is one of my favorite tulous (Hakka earthen building)
among the Fujian tulou cluster (福建土楼) that I visited during this trip.

The whole architecture were ornate with beautiful wood cravings
but it’s really sad to see most of it in a really bad state now.
No one is living there now except an old couple.

The other Tulous (Hakka earthen buildings) that I visited during this trip
were quite well preserved but not this one.
I wonder why?

It’s such a waste to see such a beautiful architecture
became derelict over time…

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English : Cultural heritage
Japanese : 文化遺産　(ぶんかいさん・bunka isan)
Korean : 문화 유산 (mun hwa yu san)
Chinese : 文化遗产 (wen hua yi chan)

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p/s: Thank god it’s friday tomorrow!!! I don’t know about you guys out there.
I’m sure looking forward to weekend!!

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[China] Hakka earthen building – Yanxianglou (衍香楼)

Photo taken on 5th August 2010.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5.

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Yanxianglou (衍香楼) Hakka tulou (客家土楼） 

*These photo were taken during summer 2010*

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 衍香楼 (Yanxianglou) is one of well preserved Hakka earthen buildings
in Yongding country (永定), Fujian.

Yanxianglou (衍香楼) was built in 1880 by Su Guchun (苏谷春) .
Can you imagine this building is more than 130 years old!!
Su Guchun’s family was very poor when he was young but after his middle age,
he started to engage in tobacco business and earned a fortune.
He build Yang xiang lou from the money he made from his successful business.

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The main body of the whole building measures 40 meters in diameter.
1.5-meter-thick bottom walls,
0.7-meter-thick crown walls as well as the 14.5-meter-high walls,
Yanxianglou has a gate, 2 water wells, 3 halls and 4 sets of staircases.
It consists of 4 floors, each floor with 34 rooms,
a total of 136 rooms in Yanxianglou.
Information reference here >>

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Also, you can go over to wikipedia to read more about
these Hakka earthen buildings in Fujian province.

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p/s: I can’t believe I have this post sleeping in my draft folder
for more than 2 years…
Actually I visited more than 5 Hakka tulou during this trip.
I’ll try to share the others too.

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