Exploring Shanghai

Look it’s me, in front of the famous radio tower of shanghai!

I woke up in the “morning” at about 1 pm, after a good 12 hours of sleep. I was jet lag’s bitch yesterday, but today I was kinda awake.. 🙂 I actually kinda panicked, as I’d slept away so much of the day. I got up and stumpled to a nearby subway to get some “normal” breakfast. This chinese stuff is ok as well, but it kinda calms me to get a predictable meal. And I need the coarse bread for my stommach. I went for a long walk along the entire Nanjing road, the main pedestrian and shooping street in Shanghai.

Unfortunately, the Bund is closed for construction. That really sucks, as it’s supposed to be the top attraction in Shanghai. Anyway, I went through the tourist tunnel to the Pudong district, to look at the skyscrapers. The tunnel had a multimedia show with different zones, projecting images and sounds of lava, hell and water. It was only mildly interesting, but the good thing was getting across the river without getting my feet wet! 🙂

I arrived in Pudong, right by the radio tower. There was a lot of fog today, so I did not go up into the tower. I’ll try come back on a clear day. So today I just wandered around, and took pictures of skyscrapers. I got some good ones too, even some skyscrapers rising up into the clouds, looks like they will continue forever upwards! I will upload them later.

It’s funny how for every skyscraper i saw, I also saw a new one being erected just next to it. I wonder how this city is going to look in a few years, once they complete all these planned structures, it should be pretty spectacular. I hope to visit the urban planning center to see the plans, they supposedly have a 3d-show with flybys and stuff. Looking forward to it.

On my way home, it started raining real hard. That’s when I went into the chinese bakery to get some quick food. That was very confusing, they did not have a lady in a counter so I could point at what i wanted. Instead there were a bunch of glass monters across the floor. I eventually figured out that I had to talk to one of the girls standing around, and she would pick up a tray and follow me around and pick up stuff I pointed to. Then she went to the counter, where I pait to another girl. The bakery had like 12 employees and 6 guests, crazy stuff.

Going out tonight as well, or at least I’ll stay in the bar upstairs and see if there are anyone fun to talk to. The danish people from yesterday were kinda fun, but not really experienced travellers, and got us really lost. I was actually kinda happy to not be stuck in that 80Y pr drink bar we walked into,  in our sneakers, shorts and t-shirts 🙂 I ended up getting back home after spending only like 60Y on the entire evening, including the bottles of beer in the hostel. Good value, at least.

Construction work in Pudong

This skyscraper was made of gold. Honest! No lying. Or maybe only gold plated. Or maybe only gold painted. Anyway, it looked different, I liked it!

I looved this one! If I had an evil empire, this is where I’d have my HQ!

World financial center and the Jin Mao tower, extending into the clouds!

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