Qidong Evergrande Venice Resort

Fascinating stop at the Qidong Evergrande Venice Resort <海上威尼斯>, where the “azure sea and silver sand” is also described as a 双色海 dual-coloured sea, because the blue lagoon turns into a Yellow Sea (no pun intended- it is where the 长江 Yangtze River tributary opens into the Western Pacific Ocean and forms the world’s largest continental shelf, which has a distinctive yellow-brown colour because of the silt washed down from the 黄河 Yellow River). The scale was quite breathtaking, but the themes are hokey, the construction really looked like the Truman show and it was crowded with Chinese grandmothers. The seafood is good!