I can't move this picture, so I have to start my information here. This is the view from our hotel room in Shanghai. Just had to show the traffic and the construction. The building on the bottom left is a school with a school yard set up for soccer and basketball. Note the amount of traffic and the construction in the area. We went for dinner at a restaurant about 5 minutes walk from our hotel. The guide said that the staff spoke English and they had English menus and the food was great. The food was great, the menus were in English but the staff spoke very little English. I had a card from some Chinese friends which explained that we didn't eat meat, chicken, etc. That helped a lot. We went back a couple of days later and forgot to show the card and got a great eggplant dish, which looked good in the menu picture, but contained pork.(oops)
We went and visited a garden area one day. Beautifully spaced rocks and trees and flowers. Very peaceful and quiet, even with all the tourists all over the place. The pictures are below.
Oh look!!! Another Starbucks. You couldn't go more than two blocks without seeing a Starbucks or a 7-Eleven.
On our way to visit a market and temple, we went past a smaller market area where our guide said we could buy knock-offs. At that precise moment, the police arrived and confiscated and stopped the sale of items until they could see that they weren't knock-offs. The sellers had spies and people posted at all entrances to places like this so they wouldn't get surprised by the police. We saw many examples of this in China. Not so much in Bangkok, though.
On one of our coach tours, we went by the Stadium in Shanghai which would host the soccer games of the Olympics.
A statue in the park. Note the large buildings behind.
Moving merchandise to the stalls for sale to the public.
The YuYuan Market for shopping and also a temple. Our guide took us all to a back stall down an alley where we could by Gucci purses, gold jewellry and watches, all for very cheap. (Knock-offs) and very high pressure.
Again, another peaceful setting. Gail Seemann loves dragons and so does Arone, our son.
Four views of the downtown business district of Shanghai. This is from the area called the Bund.
A subway entrance in the Bund area. We never took the Subway although we used the tunnel entrances to go from one side of the street to the other, in order to eliminate pedestrian crosswalks.
Some pieces of art in one of the temples we visited near the market.
Our coach was parked outside this factory shop, which also contained a restaurant where we had lunch, and there was a bit of commotion because he was blocking traffic. There was a huge argument and the woman passenger in the car almost came to blows with our driver.
But this man never got to sell any of the produce and fruit he had in these baskets.
SPLIT PANTS, AGAIN (sorry Greg, just had to put the picture in)
Then, we visited a small co-op village by a small river.
Three pictures of the Shanghai Acrobatic Show. This was a fantastic evening and I can't wait to see Marilyn's video of the evening. There was no way I could take enough pictures that weren't blurred because of all the movement.
Shopping on Nanjiing Road, the main shopping road in Shanghai. Very High End shops, but we were still offered cheap Rolex watches.
I saw this poster and knew that Daorcey and Natalie would love it.
Then, on a special trip, the four of us went to the commune. We were supposed to take a train to the city and then have a tour. We ended up in a van for over an hour to get here and almost two hours to get home. But, the visit to the city was great and we got to see what life must have been like just after the Communists came into power. Above is the map of the area and below are some pictures around the city.
We went on a little ride down the canal of this city. These dwellings look pretty original. Our guide said that hot water is very expensive, so it is used sparingly. That must be why Jannose saw the airport workers washing their hair in the airport washrooms.
Note the girl wahing her hair in the photo above. There is a pail beside her and there are water stains coming up the stairs. I would suggest that she got water from the canal. I don't have the picture in here of the guy urinating into the canal just up from where she lives. Oh well, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Greg, Marilyn and Jannose and I in fromt of one of the many beautiful buildings there. Notice that we are all smiling. We weren't three hours later after our van ride back to our hotel in Shanghai.
Below are pictures of the interesting buildings of Shanghai.
This was a sculpture in our hotel lobby. The woodwork was very interesting. It was a huge piece of art.
The skyline of Shanghai as were heading to the airport to leave to Hong Kong.
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I would have ripped down that poster within 30 seconds of seeing it. :)
Nat
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