I first arrived in Blagoveshchensk on the day of the Annunciation twenty years ago. I really liked the city, despite not a modern look. Most of the city was built wooden houses, but a lot of greens.
On the other side of the Amur, whose width is at this point just eight hundred meters, is located the Chinese city, more like a village - Heihe. For the first time I was on the wrong side of the river in 1993. In another country, another culture, in a different world. This was my first trip abroad, and a wave of new experiences I already covered in customs.
We have thousands of citizens, rinuvshihsya develop suddenly open up the country, not spoiled at home, treated without restaurants and hotels. We then were not familiar with Chinese cuisine, and hungry, bought hot dogs, ham in the bank, bananas and beer. Stuffed into cheap Chinese trunks down jackets, windbreakers, track suits, hundreds of people in the evening returned to the shore of the Amur attack to take customs. Weak dropped out of the fight immediately. I traded in the market in Yakutsk, and then opened a shop, and my wholesale warehouse was also a southern neighbor. In China, I traveled regularly changing customs regulations, even faster than I Heihe and Blagoveshchensk in all was still. Nothing has been made, the house is not built, the shops were empty.
Every time arrived in Blagoveshchensk, I passed the high weeds and overgrown bushes, concrete structure an incomprehensible form. In Soviet times there was conducted building's theater, but now the locals call the unfinished "Bastille". Here in the heart of the city on the banks of the Amur River, not far from the customs, going to the homeless, informal people, drug addicts. Understandably, many criminal events of the city were connected with this place. replaced century, millennium and a few governors. Instead of Drama in the autumn of 2007 was inaugurated by social and cultural center.
And that during these thirty years (the time of the above construction) has occurred in neighboring China? Heihe turned into a multi-storey modern city with beautiful waterfront ... But I want to tell you about the other city.
Thirty years ago Hong Kong was located in front of a small fishing village, whose name translated from Chinese "deep boundary. The question of transfer of Hong Kong to China has not been resolved, and the head of the PRC, Deng Xiaoping chose Shenzhen as China's answer to Hong Kong.
Start development of the region was given in 1978. And what do we (or Chinese) have now? Shenzhen - a city with a population of ten million people. Hong Kong residents regularly come to Shenzhen for shopping and leisure. The city is to see tourists. For example, a huge park "Window to the World" area of \u200b\u200b480,000 sq.m. There can be see thumbnails of the Egyptian pyramids, the Eiffel towers and Pisa, the Grand Canyon and Red Square ... I was in such a park in Beijing, an unusual sensation, when you can visit the many attractions of the world for several hours. Perhaps this is the world's largest fake.
located here aquarium, where there is a "maritime theater," the wonderful world of the sea floor, Hall of sharks and much more.
When I was a student at Vladivostok, in the bay "Golden Horn" came an aircraft carrier "Minsk". I was then struck by the size of this giant, next to which other Pacific Fleet looked tiny. Now this ship is in Shenzhen and is open for tours. Tin Hau Temple same valuation - is one of the most magnificent temples of China. It was built in honor of The Goddess of Heaven almost six hundred years ago, and was restored after the Cultural Revolution.
Park rides "Happy Valley" is for recreation, both adults and toddlers. The park has five zones: Toon Town, the mountain adventure, the happy island beach Maya, happy space. In the city Toon kids can have fun at the attractions the North Pole and Jurassic Park, and they are always waiting for the heroes favorite cartoons.
Park entertainment "East - West", Safari park with wild animals, the park is "China in a nutshell, an observation deck on 69 floor of the tallest building of the city, village national culture of China, an active nightlife, the best clubs in Asia ...
can tell a very long time, as the Russian proverb - "Better to see once ... »
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