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After visiting the aquarium, we walked next door to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. This is an unusual looking building, actually older than many now standing as it was built in 1994. There is a history museum in the basement, a restaurant part way up and an observation floor at the top, but we decided to continue on to the other towers with observation floors.
We ended up walking through more construction walls to get there, one area had some food vendors and a man playing an old Chinese instrument. The two tallest towers in Shanghai are right next to each other.
We decided to go up into the Jinmao Tower (pronounced Jinmow) which is 1,379 feet high and the observation deck is on the 88th floor. It was amazing how fast the elevator got us to the top! The sky was fairly clear (for Shaghai, but, not really clear!) and we had some nice views of Shanghai. We were able to look across the river and, using a map I had of the buildings on the Bund, we were able to find Nanjing Road and the building next to our hotel was easy to spot. It had two tall antennae
or something at the top. The Jinmao Tower houses the Grand Hyatt Hotel which is between the 53rd and 87th floors. You can look down the center from the observation floor, unfortunately, the way I am with hating heights, I took one quick glance and that was more than enough. Jim and Leah took the pictures.
Next door is the Shanghai World Financial Center, 1, 509 feet high, 101 floors, and now the tallest building in China. It was finished in 2008, and has a glass bottomed observation floor - that was where Leah really wanted to go - NOT ME!
I checked, and neither of these is as high as the Sears Tower in Chicago, which we went up in quite a few years ago.
We were able to get our directions straight while looking down, so after leaving, we headed towards the river. We started at one end of the Riverside Promenade and headed toward the Tourist Sightseeing Tunnel which we planned to take back across the river. The Riverside walk was very nice, lots of people enjoying the nice weather. We tried out the panorama feature of the camera, got some decent shots.
We have gotten used
Jim with movie star"Jackie Chan"
This was in the basement of the Jinmao Tower to people wanting their picture taken with Leah and it hasn't been as frequent in Shangai, but there have still been plenty. She is always polite and puts on a big smile! Who knows where we may see her face someday!
The sightseeing tunnel was a laser light show under the river, nothing too spectacular, but, more fun than a taxi ride. The other option is to take a ferry across, but I didn't even see the ferry terminal.
Once across the river, as I said before, there was a ton of construction on the Bund side, which I just learned is called Puxi. Well, we couldn't figure out how to cross the street! There was a limited length of walkway and they weren't letting you cross anywhere along it - we finally asked a policeman and he showed us to go down some stairs and there was an underground tunnel to get to the other side! We're just not used to big city living!
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