Welcome to Shanghai, the Paris of the east. Or it wants to be. Hong Kong's little bro. We arrived from our 3 day cruise quite late at night, and settled into our 10 room dorm. We meet up with a nice English chap and planned our time in Shanghai with his advice.
Day Two saw us head to the Shanghai's history museum were we spent 3 hours trying to gain some knowledge. We then headed to Renmin People's Square and Park. After Lunch we walked down Nanjing street, Where "local students" tried to "practice" their English with us. After being approached by numerous students, the scam became quite obvious and very annoying. So much so Jarratt pretended he couldn't speak English, but got caught out when they could speak French as well. At the end of Nanjing road we hit the Bund. The main part of Shanghai on the Huangpu river. We walked down the Bund and into Yuyuan Night Bazaar in the old town. There we sampled some local food (supicious looking meat on a stick) and were accosted by local salesmen. Offering bags, shoes, watches... everything and anything just to get you into their shops! They even admitted to having boomerangs, after being prompted by Bec!! I'm sure if you asked them if they had chicken pox, they'd have that too!
Day Three we visited Pudong, the business side of Shanghai. We went up Jinmao Tower, the tallest building in china and 5th in the world. At the 88th level you get a great view of Shanghai and an inside view of the Grand Hyatt. We strolled around Pudong finding most things overpriced, especially the Bund sight-seeing tunnel. We just couldn't justify spending 35yuan for a train ride with flashing lights, when we could spend 3yuan sans the lights. For the rest of the afternoon/evening we chilled out in our room watching tv and eating chinese lollies. Venturing out once for dinner, during which Bec managed to spill a slippery piece of meat from the serving plate, to her dinner plate to her lap, in one fluid motion - A very impressive feat! To which she cried "And I thought I had this chopstick thing mastered...."
Our final day we road the Maglev train (the bullet train) to the airport. The train reaches a crazy 430 km an hour, 30km in 8 minutes. The scenary is but a blur in the window. After a delay of AN HOUR at the Airport we have arrived at Xi'an.
Will write again soon, Us.
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Hey guys, all sounds good in the land of the travellers. Not long now until you reach your new home town...say goodbye to the hot muggy days and say hello to the snow flakes and freezing cold. As usual I miss you guys heaps but I look forward to the LONG phone calls once you reach home. Love you lots, miss you even more...Caz
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