Wonderful show in Windows of The World, Shenzen

I went to Shenzen with my younger sister last Dec 2006 from Surabaya via Hongkong. Our flight was arrived very early morning around 05:00 o’clock, we didn’t know that the earliest boat to Shenzen was at 09:00, so we had to wait for a long time in the Hongkong airport, lucky that the toilet was very big, very clean and very comfortable. We brushed our teeth and washed our face to refresh, then we searched some brochures about interesting places in Hongkong. We could not go too far exploring Hongkong airport, because we had to bring along the luggage, so my sister and I took turn for watching the luggage while others walking around. Finally we could get the boat ticket (HK$200), then we had to wait in another waiting lounge.


We didn’t know that the weather was so cold, we didn’t prepare for cold weather, so we bought some long sleeves T-shirt in Shenzen. We were shivering when we arrived from the boat from Hongkong in the morning waiting for the luggage. We went by cab directly toward the Century Plaza hotel for check-in. We were cold and starving, so RBT a nice ambience café with tea as their speciality became our place for lunch. My sister loved the hot pomelo tea, it’s unique and delicious, especially drinking something hot to warm the body, she hadn’t ever taste it before. We stopped by a supermarket to buy waters and breads. “Windows of The World” was our main destination, we went there by Shenzen Metro. Tourists would need minimum two hours to cover the total area of this entertainment park which is often dubbed as mini-globe. Splendid China, Shenzhen treasures the replicas of the Seven Wonders of the World, chronological heritages and renowned sites of beauty and glamour. The Mahamuni Pagoda of Rangoon located within the periphery of Splendid China. This Buddhist shrine is one of the major pilgrimage sites. European styles has been imitated in this part of Shenzhen. You could take peep-a-boo in the streets of Manhattan accompanied by towering skyscrapers. Soak your heart’s desire in the jingles of Niagara fall and Sydney Opera house with the bridge could also be found here. It is not possible for people to visit every country in the five continents of the world, this boundary is a magic that needs to be ventured with only cost 120 Yuan. Splendid China of Shenzhen remains opened from 9 o’clock in the morning to 10:30 at night.

Some Disney characters also could be found there, lucky we were there during Christmas season, so most of the decoration were Christmas tree and it’s ornament. It’s very beautiful as if we were in Christmas celebration party. Everywhere you could see Christmas tree, bells, and the beautiful bright red Poinsettia. I was lucky that I could take pictures with Snow White and the handsome Prince. My sister took picture with more than 10 Santa Clause, they prepared to parade in the amusement park. A long queue was happened when we want to see a show provided by Fuji, it’s more than an hour, but we had bought a ticket for the main show at 20:00, we still had time for it. During the queue, lucky that we bought bread, so we could fill our stomach with the bread.

The main show at 20:00 was at the front part of the park, right after the entrance. We could get the seat in the middle of the area, if you didn’t buy ticket, you could see from the edge of the area. We faced the giant globe, when the show was started, it’s amazing that the globe could open, and the stage with the dancers appeared from inside of the globe. It’s very windy, although the spectators were crowded, we still felt freezing. My sister and I kept sitting close to each other to keep us warm, the show was very spectacular, that we felt a pity to leave it. There were many attractions from different country with a story, the background and the stage kept changing depended on the story. The dancers were very professional, although it’s cold, they didn’t show the suffering wearing an open costume. They kept dancing gracefully, with various costumes and accessories. In one of the story, our seat became moving to the right, split the seat column into two parts. From bottom of the split, some dancers were running from downstairs to the main stage. It’s unbelievable, they must have a very huge power to slide the place where there were many persons. There were also giant big screen at the left and right side of the main stage, so people could see the expression of the dancers. We kept shivering, but we didn’t want to miss the attraction.

At the end of the show, some of dancers using big cars with beautiful ornaments were parade around us. I tried to take a picture, but it’s rather difficult, because they kept moving and my pocket digital camera it’s not capable to take a moving target at night. The show was ended by producing beautiful frameworks with a beautiful Eiffel tower as the background. The Eiffel tower also had some lights, finally after the fireworks ended, the lights at the Eiffel towers formed a Christmas tree. It’s very wonderful. We had to rush to the metro unless we missed it. It’s almost ten o’clock when we arrived near hotel, so we tried to find food, lucky that a restaurant in the mall accepted us as the last customer, so we wouldn’t be starving at night. The funny thing were happened when we wanted to order, the waiter could not speak English while we could not speak Mandarin. He didn't understand our order, fortunate there was a customer who's kind enough to help us translating the order into Mandarin. During we were eating that started closing the restaurant.