Shenzhen and Lanterns

 We have presidential elections in Finland and so I went to Hong Kong to vote. After voting, I took the MTR to the Chinese border at Lok Ma Chau. This was said to be a quicker one to cross the border than the old Lo Wu crossing. It was quite good as it only took about 20 minutes for me to cross the checkpoint to Shenzhen.

The main point of my coming here was to see the lanterns in the Chinese Folk Village. The lantern festival ends the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival celebrations but these lanterns have been on show since December.

I went there after dark and in my opinion, the lanterns were really impressive. Also the village is worth another visit as it exhibits the different minorities living in China. There are 56 minorities. I just walked around the area and took photos of the lanterns.

The next day I went to have a look at a book shop, which claims to be the biggest in the world. I don't know if this is true but it surely was a big one. Bought two books and before returning to Macau I also had a look at the big electronics market in Shenzhen. As I wasn't planning to buy anything and most of the things they had, had no prices, I didn't stay there for long. An exception to not having prices where the drones, which started from something like 30€ up.

Again during these two days, I had been walking quite a lot so I decided to go back home. Took the metro to the harbour and a ferry back to Macau. On the way we went under one of the world's longest, if not the longest bridges, the Hong Kong - Macau - Zhuhai bridge, which is 55 km long.

Shenzhen still has quite a few places I want to see and as it is only one hour ferry ride from Macau, I will surely visit it again.