Blogs from Shanghai, China, Asia - page 271

Here is some information on Shanghai from Wikipedia and Travel China Guide. Flight to Shanghai It seems the word got out about my abuse of the First Class lounge privileges in Xi’an. When I walked in to the lounge in Guilin, they looked at my pass, then at me, and made clear that I was entitled to only a single soda and snack. Our tour guide in Shanghai was Wu, a middle aged women that we never really learned much about personally. Wu was conservative in her behavior like Rose, but seemed to be a little sneakier in her behavior. She honestly didn’t seem all that interested in keeping to the tour schedule…pretty much showing disdain for most of the sights. Made us all wonder why she was a tour guide in the first place. We ... read more

Sitting in the reception area of the Huayuan Hospital in Shanghai. In front of me is a coffee vending machine. The sign over the machine: COFFEE: Helps you improve your mood, gives you energy, helps the digestion, helps you lose weight, and helps you look and feel youthful 3.00 Yuan per cup.... read more

Can Shanghai be but a technological mirage? An economic miracle? This city has to be seen to be believed. From images I have seen before, I though it'd be a city with mostly short, flat buildings and a few tacky mega-skyscrapers and that hideous globe and column tower )Oriental Peal Tower). Boy was I wrong! Shanghai is a skyscraper wonderland, on its way to be as dense as Manhatten but much bigger in scale. And somehow, when I am in Shanghai, those buildings I thought would be tacky turned out to be quite fitting and actually quite awesome. Maybe it's all the summer haze, maybe it's the glimmering light show that the Oriental Pearl Tower. Maybe it's all the Hong-Kong-, Vegas-, and Tokyo-style lighted billboards and buildings that have created an enchanting if not disorienting neon ... read more

Greetings from Shanghai! This is our last city in China before we head to Japan. Thanks to all who have written to us. We have had a long, but somewhat relaxing, past week. After Leshan we went to Chongqing, which was huge and crazy, like a poor Hong Kong on more hills. The skyscrapers would run into alleyways which would run into streets which would run into a bridge, and all of it was crooked. When we thought we were on the ground floor, all of a sudden we would find ourselves 6 stories above ground. Mostly, we stayed indoors and checked out the malls because it was too hot to go outside. Andy, in answer to your question, although there are a fair amount of cheap clothes and knock-off clothes, there seems to be name ... read more

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