Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Bowuguan)

We told Kevin about our excursion last night. He taught me how to say Vietnamese "Yuenanren". Also, he said he saw hookers at the Karaoke bar one time. I guess those girls weren't part of a bridal party...

Today is our only free day. We get the option to follow Kevin or venture out alone. Almost half the group ventured out. We were doing …

On Tuesday we set out to do Day 2 of Frommer's Shanghai. We walked from the hotel to Peoples square with only a couple of navigational challenges. Although Shanghai streets have both Chinese and English names somehow the combination makes navigating harder(Well that’s my excuse (Pat) and I am sticking to it.).

Dodging traffic in the …

Entry containing 4 photos titled: Yuyuan Gardens, Streets and stalls in the French Concession, Our dinner in the French Concession, The ugliest cat ever

We arrived in Shanghai at lunchtime and after checking into our hotel, we joined another family from our tour group for lunch. We last saw them in Guilin when we all went our separate ways to each of our children's home provinces. It turns out they’re in Shanghai for the next couple days as well, so our tour company paired us up with them …

Our last day in Shanghai was a beautiful sunny one, and we got help from the concierge to finally get to the Shanghai Museum. He got us a cab and told the driver where to take us. Fifteen minutes later we paid and got out of the cab, only to find we were at the Shanghai Exhibition Hall. We walked around a bit and confirmed this after seeing trucks …

I arrive in Shanghai on Saturday and found the hotel Marie booked quite easily. I tried not to go out and see too much because I wanted to wait until Marie, James and Matt arrive. I decided that I would just do a lot of walking and get my bearings around the city. I went for a walk along Nanjing Road East which has sooooo many shops you could get …

One more flight on our itinerary took us from Guilin to Shanghai and upon arrival we took the 300km per hour (400km during certain hours) Maglev train from the airport to Pudong and then connected to one of the busiest areas of Shanghai, East Nanjing Street, for our next home. Ming Town Youth hostel was excellently located right behind the …

Beijing is China's cultural and historical capital. By exploring the Hutong district, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Bell and Drum Towers and attending a flag raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square we learnt a lot of interesting information about the dynasties and the formation of the people’s republic of China. For example the last emperor …

Shanghai is a very modern city compared to the rest of China, and, like Xi'an, there are some very expensive stores here. It is easy to get around too, and we got a Big Bus sightseeing package thing which gave us open top bus travel around Shanghai for 3 days. It also gave us access to the Jin Mao tower, which had a lift that took us up to the 88th …

7:35pm - Monday, May 9 Today we decided to keep it a mostly indoor day due to the Weather Network's temperature prediction for today (39C with the humidity). We took the metro to West Nanjing Road station like we did on Saturday but instead of stopping for lunch, we grabbed snacky things on the way. First we stopped for bao at a place with a really …

... find ... Crocs!!! Only thing was I hadn't seen any Croc shops around in the sea of shops and shopping centres that is Shanghai. I went to the main pedestrian mall down from where we were staying and ducked into the first shopping centre I hadn't been ...

... I have been keeping pretty busy during the day as well. I spent an entire day in the Shanghai museum, an homage to the early art works of China. The bronze and jade collections were brilliant, and the currency exhibit was fascinating. They actually used ...

... who live in the big cities, like Shanghai and Beijing. I could live so easily in a city like Shanghai, and probably forget at times that I was in China. You can't walk five feet without bumping into a foreigner. Everything felt so...normal. We went out ...

... haggle down some sun-glasses for Rachel from 380 Yuan to 50 Yuan, almost a 90% discount! We have also visited the China Pavilion of the Shanghai 2010 Expo, we didn't really know what an Expo was and have never visited one before. It turned out to be ...

... the Bund side lit in a classical way. See the photos. Brilliant... The next day, under the moon cloud, I head out to the Shanghai Museum. A girl from my dorm offers to be guide. I'm hesitant - she speaks about as much english as I do chinese - ...

... got the memory card for 7 pounds so Andrew didn't feel too bad about not buying it in Beijing.  Then we went to the Shanghai Museum, China's most comprehensive museum, which was free to get in and kept us entertained for a couple of ...

... architecture creating a remarkable city skyline. The views from the Oriental Pearl Tower were breathtaking. People's Square and the Shanghai Musuem - a fine collection, but perhaps starting to feel we have seen enough Ming and Qing relics for one ...

... nbsp; In the end I not only bought tea byut also a beautiful Chinese tea set. Later in the day we visited the Shanghai Museum.  Unfortunately, the guide did not give me too much time but I enjoyed what I saw.  They had a ...

... Hyatt, on the 53rd to 87th floors. Both towers were shrouded in clouds, and persistent rain drove me to the new Shanghai Museum, which had five floors of beautiful Chinese art and antiquities - everything from sculpture to ceramics and furniture. At ...

... together. The next day was Gregs last day and everyone else was working or going to school so Greg and I went to the Shanghai Museum with a plan to go back to the market for some last day shopping. The museum is beautiful, designed to look like a ...