I think I start to like Shanghai. Heh.
A short, 8-min ride on the Shanghai Maglev Train (or Shanghai Transrapid) from Pudong airport to town. It ran at 301 km/h when I took it, but I was told it runs at 431 km/h some other parts of the day.
Inside of the car
In case you're wondering how the maglev track looks like...
YuYuan Garden (豫园), a heritage shopping area
The foodcourt at the Chenghuang Temple ("City God Temple" 老城隍庙) - so-so food at inflated prices. Specially designed for tourists.
Alright I confess - I'm officially a Din Tai Fung fan after my TPE trip. But the food there wasn't cheap at all!
An old Chinese opera stage at some random road junction
An old-fashioned cloth shop
A random alley
After spending some time in Puxi, I took a ferry ride across the Huang Pu Jiang to Pudong
Doggies!
A cute structure in front of the Shanghai World Financial Center, where Park Hyatt Shanghai is located. SWFC claims to be the third tallest in the world.
Greeting the Expo with civilization?!
And the Riverside Promenade Park is a "Patrotism Education Base"? No joke.
You would expect Zara salesmen to behave even when they talk on the phone outside their store, right?
Best Buy's Chinese name is weird - it means you think 100 times before you buy
Separate traffic lights for the motorbikes - A LOT of them!
Quite a clean alley with artwork on sale
A dark alley and the barber shop inside
A quaint looking building
Nanjing Road, the main shopping area of Shanghai
Another building on Nanjing Road
A landmark on Nanjing Road - XinShiJie
Plaza 353
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