Shanghai Nights: Photos 21 to 34

Ni hao!

Oh how the fresh smell of sweat dripping from your body mixed with humidity and pollution attracts the mosquitos.

We first went to our hotel, Xinlong, to take a nice, cold shower. Our room was on the 4th floor, facing the Suzhou River. We watched the barges float by and the construction on nearby buildings, as well as senior citizens practicing the age old Tai Chi. The hotel was $10, and we could only stay because Jon spoke Chinese - no English here.

Our biological clock was off and we went roaming the streets at 5am. and made our way to the Bund (Shanghai tan), where the foreign imperialists had taken over the economy and built up a beautiful, Western style river front.

While in Shanghai we toured various beautiful, unfamiliar places. We crossed the river by ferry and walked around the new Pudong area. A vast land of incredible, modern sky scrappers with east and west influences. It's all very new.

Most of our food came off the streets from vendors selling shish kabob (delicious lamb) to Bao zi (doughy bun filled with meat and steamed ($0.25 each). On one lunch occasion we

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Looks like China knocked the boyish good looks out of you and made ya a HOT mayun! Trunes, too much good eats and not enough backpacking through the wilderness!

Looks like China knocked the boyish good looks out of you and made ya a HOT mayun! Trunes, too much good eats and not enough backpacking through the wilderness!