Dafen oil painting village is located in Buji Subdistrict, the village is the world’s largest mass producer of oil paintings — a virtual art factory. But Dafen has more to offer than cheap paintings. Dafen was founded by a Hong Kong businessman who began production with several dozen artists in 1989, but the village has grown a lot in the last 20 years. Now 5,000 artists produce more than 5 million paintings every year, and Dafen has become famous all over the world.

Window of the World is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shenzhen. The park covers an area of 480,000m2 and is divided into the World Square, Asia Area, Oceania Area, Europe Area, North America Area, World Sculpture Park and International Street. Window of the World shows the Worlds key points of interest, natural scenes, world wonders, folk’ housing, sculpture etc; totally more than 130 scenic spots. There are also entertainment programs, but all of this never really attracted me to go to this park. When you drive along WotW you can clearly see a miniature version of the Eiffel tower in the park and the International street with the hotels in foreign styles.

Shenzhen has a zoo called "Wild Animal Zoo - Safari Park Shenzhen". I visited it in 2006 and admission at the time was 100Y/person, but currently it is 120Y/person. Actually, the zoo is better than most other Asian zoos, though not yet up to the standards of zoos I visited in the Netherlands. On the upside is that they have some great shows: with birds, lions and on a big track with various animals: tricks with running horses, bears cycling and so on. They also have panda bears and many monkeys and other wild animals.

You can look at the photos I took during our visit. 

Overall quite a good day!

Citizen's Center is the new heart of Shenzhen in Futian district. The city hall is the most remarkable building in this area with a roof in the shape of a bird. Next to it (on the east side) you will find the beautiful Shenzhen Library and Shenzhen Concert hall. You can enter the Shenzhen Library every day (except monday) for free and relax and read some books or magazines. Highly recommended for some rainy days!

If you want to buy some books, just cross the square to the biggest and newest bookstore of Shenzhen. Inside several restaurants, a small bookstore specialized in English books and the big bookstore with quite a good selection of English Computer Science books.

To the north of the bookstore you will see a park with on top of a hill a statue of Deng Xiaopeng. From the top of the hill you can take a beautiful photo of Citizen's Center. 

Although the buildings are beautiful during daytime, it's also worth walking around this aread shortly in the evening to marvel at the architecture.

Wu Tong Shan in the east of Shenzhen is one of the most important  scenic spots of Shenzhen. It's the highest mountain
 at 944 meters. It is possible to take a car to a restaurant below the top, but you can also walk from the bottom where the bus stops. At the parking place below the top the first part consists of very steep stairs and after that it is just steep rocks. Don't take this route on high heels! Quite tiring and narrow at places. You can walk over the top and the other side down. The other side has many stairs which make it easier to walk down to the parking place again. 

If you go early enough, you can combine it with a visit to Dong Men shopping area or to a park at the base of the mountain.