I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 642. Today the amateur traveler talks about the

maritime silk road, 72 hour visas and places like the temple of the six banyan trees and the mausoleum of the

Nanyue King as we go to Guangzhou, China.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Let's talk about Guangzhou.

I'd like to welcome this show Bill Abbott from Chicago and also from Blabbot.

Weebly.com and I'll put a link to that in the show notes who's come to talk to us

about another lesser known place in China, Guangzhou.

Bill, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, Chris.

Good to be with you today.

I say lesser known as if it were some little tiny village off in the hinterlands which it is not.

Yeah, we, I mean we are talking about one of the largest cities in China and in the world and I think it's probably number two after Shanghai I think that

Beijing and Guangzhou are kind of right in that same type area in terms of

population.

14.5 million is what I'm seeing and I don't know how old those statistics are.

Why should someone go to Guangzhou?

Chris, you've mentioned in your shows about Hong Kong how Hong Kong is kind of China with English

subtitles.

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