After dinner, I went for a walk in a seaside park in Shenzhen.

Evening scenery

The sunset is gorgeous.

All kinds of food stalls

They were selling things to eat at the entrance. There’s nothing like this at all inside the park. Just in case, I bought a drink and took it with me.

All kinds of food..

Having just eaten, nothing really tempted me.

Scenery

The seaside park is incredibly long. Apparently it runs for a dozen or more kilometres.. so I only went as far as the middle and came back. Far in the distance you can see a truly dazzling view, and I think that must be Shenzhen’s new city centre. It’s lit up the whole time, with entire buildings mobilised to spell out “I Love Shenzhen”, and it really is spectacular. If you pick the right day, there’s supposedly a drone show too. If you’re visiting Shenzhen, it’s a view well worth seeing once. But the park is so big that rather than planning to walk there, it’s better to take the metro and get off at the central part.

View towards Hong Kong

I was told the lights in the far back are buildings in Hong Kong. Not central Hong Kong, but the outskirts. The line of lights on the right is said to be the bridge that connects to Hong Kong. This view is spectacular too.

Walking all around, it wasn’t much different from the Han River. Full of people exercising and people cycling, and since it was a hot day, couples on dates too. Nobody was spreading out picnic mats, but anyway, it’s the kind of big park a big city really needs. I got the feeling that living around here wouldn’t be much different from living by the Han River..

I meant to look around and head back, but I’d walked too much, so I decided to take the metro back. Walking that distance again was out of the question.

Scenes in the metro

I guess it’s a golden rule that there are good eateries in the metro. Ventilation underground can’t be easy, so I wondered whether it’s really okay to sell food there.. but I suppose that’s just China..

Sushi

No way.. surprisingly, sushi was on sale here and there.

Bingtanghulu, or tanghulu as we call it in Korea

They do sell the original tanghulu.. So it wasn’t just a Korean craze..

Beef slices

They sell something bread-like too. Anyway, it seems like serious business. With this many people passing through, I figured the food trade must do well.

Transferring in the metro..

I took the metro to get back to my hotel comfortably, but the transfer was no joke. I think I walked well over a kilometre just for the transfer.

Transfer scenery

After going a long way, just when I thought that must be enough, another enormous space would appear.. But the problem was that those passages were all packed with people. With that many people, I suppose they had no choice but to make the metro stations deliberately huge. Even the entrance going underground wasn’t straightforward; you had to go round in a loop. I thought, so this is the scale of China..

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