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WE’RE TAKING YOU TO GUANGZHOU We enjoyed this city of tradition and the future This 30 th September will see Air Serbia commemorate the first anniversary of its direct flights to Guangzhou, a Chinese city that was
linked to Belgrade a year ago Y ou can discover a lot about Guangzhou by search- ing online, but you’ll on- ly come to understand what’s most important there once you’ve spent a few days in the city. We had an opportunity to spend a week exploring southern China. Those seven days provided us with an unfor- gettable experience and taught us that you can feel at home and see a lot in Chi- na, but that it’s really important to first get well informed and to plan everything in detail. Our preparations already began in Bel- grade. We researched Guangzhou’s top tourist attractions and recorded what we wanted to visit on Google maps, then downloaded some alternative maps just in case. We installed the Alipay app, to which we added our payment card details and passport information, then bought train tickets to every city in southern China that we planned to visit. We set out from Belgrade on a Monday, 20 minutes after midnight, with Air Ser- bia flight JU988. We arrived at Guang- zhou Baiyun International Airport 11 hours later. Despite being a large airport, it was easy to navigate, while the proce- dure for entering the country was also simple. Serbian citizens don’t require a vi- sa for travel to China, but we were giv- en a form aboard the plane that had to be completed and submitted to the bor- der police together with our passports. We simultaneously provided digital fin- gerprints of both hands and were left laughing heartily at the fingerprint ma- chine, which told us what to do in Serbi- an that was clear, yet somewhat robot- ic. And that was that. The doors of China opened to us. We arrived in Guangzhou at around 7pm local time and decided to transfer from
Shamian’s architecture is distinctive in the city and most resembles European styles
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