Pre drinks with Inae

"Is that China Town?" "We're in Shanghai, everywhere's China Town"!

---

June 1st 2011
After a super efficient flight from Hanoi to Shanghai with a quick change in Guangzhou and sneaking through the "special queue" at immigration, we arrived at our lovely hostel - unbelievably our first hostel on this trip. We decided to settle here for a week and packed an awful lot in! With Shanghai being so westernised, we took advantage of the huge shopping malls to buy new clothes, drink Sta ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai » Putuo

---

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more