Our train journey from Wuhan to Shanghai was very different to the ones we experienced before. We got ourselves on an airconditioned express train (only 9 hours instead of 24). And what a difference it was!!! Curtains on the windows, quiet and cold inside, carpet on the floors, clean bathrooms, no coal furnace?!? - and shock, horror - nobody is eating instant noodles?!?!? Although we had a quite restful night we would not want to miss our experience on the simpler and slower trains. One of a kind :) Arriving in Shanghai felt a bit like leaving what we knew of China behind. This is a very modern City, with good metro connection, flashy supermarkets and departement stores. We guess most people come exactly for that, shopping. Well, not us. At first we found it strange
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