Ankomst & Thyphoon / Arrival and typhoon

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(For the english version, scroll halfway down)

Saa ankom vi til Shanghai efter en lang flyvetur.

Flyveturen var heldigvis ikke saa lang som frygtet, rejselederen havde angiver afgangstid i dansk tid, og ankonsttid i kinesisk tid, saa turen var 'kun' paa 9 timer ;o)

Flyet var lidt forsinket, saa der blev lavet en del om paa dagens planer.

Vi startede med middag paa en restaurant, hvorefter vi forsoegte at indskrive os paa hotellet.

Det viste sig at de ikke havde vaerelserne klar, saa vi maatte vente i 1 time paa at de blev det, og vi havde tre timer til vi skulle ud og se paa byen !

Naa efter nogen tid lykkedes det saa.

Senere skulle vi besoege The Bund, Shanghai's havnefront, men fordi der var en thyphoon paa vej, blev det aflyst, saa vi koerte lidt rundt i byen, og fik noget baggrunds info.

Shanghai er en imponerende by, der er 17 milioner indbyggere, deraf er 2 milioner bygningsarbejdere (de bygger hele tiden, og over det hele !).

Og saa oplevede vi saa en rigtig thyphoon, hvor himmel og hav stod i et, nu bor vi paa et ret stort hotel midt inde i byen, saa vi maerkede ikke saa meget til det, men regnen og vinden kunne vi da observere fra hotelvaerelset.

Mand det gjorde godt at komme i seng, jeg tror at det eneste sted jeg ikke sover rigtigt er i et fly !

Nok herfra for denne gang, jeg vender frygteligt tilbage.

Alle dagens billeder

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After a long flight, we have at last arrived in Shanghai.

The flight was fortunatly not as long as feared, in our travel documentation the departure and arrival time was in local time, so in stead of 15 hours, the trip only took 9 hours.

The plane was somewhat late at arrival, so we have had to make some changes to our plans for the day.

We started off with dinner at a restaurant, after which we tried to register at our hotel.

Unfortunatly our rooms was not ready yet, so we had to wait over an hour, before we could change clothes and freshen up. Now we had two hours before we should be on our first arrangement.

It was planned we should visit The bund, but because a typhoon was comming, it was cancled, and we just drove around in the city, and got some background information.

Shanghai is an impressive city, with over 17 million inhabitants, of which 2 millions are working in constructions (they are building everywhere).

For comparison, I'm from Denmark, and we have 5 million inhabitants in the country, and our largest city has under 1 million inhabitants !

Talk about culture shock !

Anyway ...

Later that evening the city was hit by the typhoon, but is wasn't as bad as we had feared (we have nothing of this magniture in Denmark), as the typhoon had traveled some 300 kilomertes over land at that time.

It was great to get into the bed, I have a reputation of being able to sleep anywhere, but for some reason I just cannot sleep in a plane !

Enough for now, I'll be back !

All pictures from the day (uncommented)

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Photos

Freeway
Freeway in Shanghai, China. Please observe the potted plants, this is a normal sight in southern China.

Comments

[Anne]

Godt at høre
Hej Brormand. Godt at høre at I kom godt derned, og at I er ok trods lidt fugtig blæst ;o) Knus Søs

[Jan]

I starter haardt ud!
At starte med at ryge i en Typhoon, maa da vaere at starte haardt ud :o) 17 Millioner i en by! Danmark virker pludselig saa lille.