Well, china just goes to the head of my favourite countries visited, it is very much an experience here, something different, something great, something puzzling, something to try to adjust to, something to change how you live your life - it has everything! Shanghai is a massive city, i think about 30 million (hold, how many people in nz???), and answers the question 'what do you get when you make a gigantic sprawling mass of humanity and squeeze it into a relatively small space?' (relative to nz of course). Its this big, sprawling, spottily stinky, spottily very beautiful, spottily very dirty, spottily very slummy, and a few places very VERY expensive and upmarket. Its awesome, you can see guys making noodles on the side of the road, its unbeleivable how many roadside food stalls there
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