Shanghai Pudong Skyline

Stopover in Shanghai

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August 13th 2015
As our plane arrived timely and we had to wait 6 hours for our connection to Beijing, we have decided to jump out the airport. We catched the so called "Maglev" for Longyuang Station, the only commercial operating magnet driven train in the world. Unfortunately we were too late for the highspeed window during which the train is reaching a maximum speed of 430 km/h. With only 300 km/h it took 8 min ... read more

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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