I cleared Hong Kong exit control at Lo Wu and lost my 4G signal. When I saw a sign for Port Visa, I went upstairs to apply for a five-day Shenzhen visa on arrival.
Someone in a travel group had asked how to get to Shenzhen. I found https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/guangdong/shenzhen/visa-on-arrival.htm, which said Vietnamese passport holders were more likely to be refused. Fees varied by nationality and some could pay as much as 3.5 million đồng, more than a regular Chinese visa cost me.
Nobody answered my message in the group, so I decided to try. If it didn’t work out, I’d just go back to Hong Kong :D After I got home I found out plenty of people had got the visa before me.
When we entered the room, we were alone, so we didn't know why we didn'ts take the number, we said we wanted a 5-day visa for ShenZhen, the customs woman (she looked very cute) looked at our passports a few minutes later and said we were going out to take a photo, fill out the form, and then this woman even took the phone to get our number.
While waiting to buy a sim, I went to the immigration, after standing in line, I remembered to fill out the immigrations form, this part almost hock: DDD jk, the customs woman looks awkward, looking and looking, she sees me different from the photo in the passport, takes back all the fingerprints, after one she takes me to a private room to check more, I don't feel good.
Inside, two officers compared my face with my passport photo for a while. The woman took me to a different immigration officer who stamped me in. She handed back my passport and said I could go. I opened it to make sure I hadn’t been refused :D
The eSim I went to Harbin a month ago, the illusion is that I have not deleted from the machine, expires 15 days but still useable, so I have not bought a new sim, 12GB, I use 10 GB, 2 GB is enough for 1 day.
I'm used to going to China, but then a little lag, it took a while to remember how to get on the tram in China, in Hong Kong tap credit card and done, this side has to buy tickets at the ticket machine.
At the end, I went out the exit by app, go under the basement quite far, there is no one, the restaurants around covered with cloth, but I know there are many surveillance cameras around so I am not afraid, out on the street there are security guards.
I'm hungry and tired, but I want to get my room, take a shower, change my clothes, and then go eat, go out.
I texted the hostel with Trip's support, asking for a refund for the Hong Kong room, Trip said they'd get back to me the next afternoon, and by the next after noon, the hostel agreed to refund me.
12:00 pm I heard the sound of the subway still running so I went down into the underground, down where I saw the end of the operation, no entry, ticket machine display out of service, even so the staff did not drive me up, if I can't go, I'll go home myself: D, the station empty, there are two people out and have a relative pick up. I was on my own, the buses had stopped, and it was three kilometres back to the hostel. Too far to walk and I didn’t want to pay for a taxi, so I cycled. It was fun, especially when a few drops of rain started falling.
In the group Travel in China, I saw an article taking pictures of the pyramid with the Eiffel Tower (simulated), read the comment only know that in the Window of the world so I want to go to Shanghai just to check in this place.
That morning was a tiring day for me. Data sim although still 1 GB high speed but no more waves, I waited until the time to check out and not again so just text to Vietnam buy another sim. I'm also unconcerned, go straight ahead even though I don't have a sim, find a restaurant with wifi to use the handset.
I walked out to find a restaurant like the night before, the streets were empty, few restaurants, walked a kilometer and couldn't find any restaurant with rice, I went to a restaurant that was big and big, put my backpack down and asked for wifi, the staff said 没有什么 (Méiyǒu shé me - no, because I heard a lot so I knew) so I packed my backpack and went to another restaurant.
I went down the long road and felt uncomfortable so I went back to the old hostel, went to another restaurant and asked if there was wifi.
After dinner we went back to the old hostel to use the wifi, get the QR code of eSim and we left. The hostel had two lifts. One was shared with the flats and the other went straight from the first to the fourth floor for hostel guests. The guard pointed me to the private lift. If I’d taken the shared one, I could probably have used the hostel Wi-Fi without anyone noticing :D
I don't remember to activate eSim need wifi, out on the street sitting by the road scan QR only remember, to the convenience store overnight for noodles ask wifi, luckily, buy a bottle of water thank you, conveniently sitting there activate the sim: D
After all this, we're going to visit the Window of the World.
It's a big area, quite difficult to get around, I went into the wrong ice rink area, turned around to find the entrance, luckily on Apple Maps there is a ticket office with the entrance.
I saw a parking lot next to the ticket office, I scanned it to try it out and it ran out of slots.
There is a ticket machine but need to scan passport, not very convenient so on the App Trip buy tickets quickly, less than 1 minute, scan QR to pass the check-in door.
I quickly quickly leave, because tired of this area I think only suitable for Chinese, with those who want to go to spring, for me check in like that is enough.
Go out and buy some ice cream, sit down and take the tram to the gate at Futian port, to the gate of Lok Ma Chau in Hong Kong.
