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Asia 2009: Day 15 (Shanghai, Part 2)
Posted on October 21st, 2009 No commentsIf I could describe Shanghai in a few words, it would be “under construction”. The city is spending billions of dollars preparing for Expo 2010, so getting around the city on foot was difficult. For the most part, I felt like I was in Manhattan. Other times it was the city of the future. And a few times it was the China I expected to see, with people doing their laundry in buckets and eating street food. There were some more European areas, but our tired feet never made it that far.
Another day at sea, and then Okinawa.
- Another one for my coffee table book about doors
- Lion guarding the bank
- Peace Hotel in The Bund
- I guess this counts as a door
- The Bund, majorly under construction
- Older part of town
- Bridge near Old Town
- Shops
- Requisite gate
- I feel guilty going home to my washer and dryer after seeing these kinds of things in China
- Huge crickets (?) at the bird/fish/insect market
- Highway on top, people in the middle, cars at the bottom
- Oriental Pearl Tower
- More cool architecture
- SWFC on left, Jin Mao on right
- Jin Mao and SWFC
- Looking up at the Jin Mao Tower
- The atrium started on the 53rd floor (or was it the 54th)
- Looking up at the Shanghai World Financial Center
- Am I waiting for a ride at Disneyland, or an elevator ride to the top? There was even a preshow!
- Observation deck on the 100th floor
- It costs 150 RMB to get to the 100th floor
- View from the top. Our ship is in the distance
- Shanghai = huge
- The Jin Mao building is supposed to look like bamboo
- The Volendam from the top of the SWFC
- Maglev station
- Train arriving
- Proof that we went 430 km/h!
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