The Bund (Wai Tan) Shanghai

Grand Canal Tour in China 0 - Shanghai Seveal Hours Night Tour - Day 00(27Aug, 2011)

Tourists arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport in late afternoon for 20 days Grand Canal Tour. Shanghai is our first stop in China. After 1 hour drive, we arrived at our hotel in the old French Concession the downtwon Shanghai. Then we toured to the Yuyuan …

Landing in PVG

By the time I got out to the airport it was about 8:30 pm, Saturday, February 18 (Shanghai Time). I was to take Bus 6 to the last stop, and go to my Hostel (Rock and Wood). Bus 6 was to leave at 9pm. I decided to wait half an hour. This seemed like a horrible decision, but I didnt feel like taking the train (so I could see …

It took me a while to get out of the Hostel. Getting up a little before 8am, and leaving by about 10:30am...I showered, and came down to re-do the plan I had made the night before. Oh, and I also spoke with Jaime for about 40 minutes about her stay in China.

Jaime
Jaime had been in China for 5 weeks, and would go running every morning …

Pas trop de chose à faire une journée bien remplis pi l'autre on se la coule douce dans un petit resto italien de la french concession à shanghai avec une bonne petite hoegaarden et un mega spag bolognese …

Boy, you all think you are a bunch of comedians on the blog comments. We appreciate your humor and participation. We look forward to turning on our computer and seeing what you all have to say. :)

A question we keep getting is about the weather. It's very cold here. We have no idea what this means off the top of our heads but it's anywhere …

Well it's Sunday of a long weekend here in Shanghai and my first week is over. My first week of teaching started out a little on the irksome side, but ended up on a good note. I didn't realize how much the kids wouldn't understand so I've had to go back and revamp most of the lessons I made up. But they'll get there because even though they don't …

Yikes! I just realized it has been kind of forever since my last blog! Life up until Ryan came was just pretty boring I guess. Ry, you light up my Chinese life. Haha, anyway...

Day One
The first actual day Ry was here I unfortunately was stuck at work worrying that he had been sold into trafficking. Luckily he was not and …

Out with the old and in with the new. That was the case for leaving Xi’an, the old capital and entering the massive metropolis that is Shanghai. After a decent sleep in our soft sleeper we entered the city in good spirits. First impressions? It's busy, very busy, but then we did convieniently arrive in rush hour traffic. Our optimisn soon …

Shanghai is a very nice city. However it is no Beijing. The main difference comes in terms of tourism, in Beijing you could spend days and days checking out all the great sights. Shanghai is very different, it is much cleaner to start and much less tourist orientated and massively orientated towards businessmen. For this reason, even more people …

Upon returning to Shanghai, we visit the Bund, which means waterfront. The Bund is special to me because it's where all the old Chinese gangster movies take place. The most famous is Chow Yun Fat's "Shanghai Grand". The Bund of today is so much different than how it was in those movies, but no less grand. The skyline of the city reminds me of …

... and look forward to the food. The last two days we have been walking around to check out the Bund, the French Quarter and the Old City part of Shanghai. We have returned exhausted in the afternoons and then last night when we were ready we ventured out ...

... odd yet very cool. We sat in a starbucks on the other side until it got dark as apparently the thing to do is see Shanghai and the Bund at night with all the pretty lights. That was well worth it, as it was very pretty. So today we're leaving here, ...

... the city. Literally, I walk the entire city in one day.  I take the futuristic tunnel across the river to and walk down the Bund taking in views of the skyline from the other side of the river.  The Yu Yuan Gardens are amazing and offer a ...

... at a place that mainly sells steamed buns. The crowds had dissolved a bit, we walked a bit on the Bund shooting photos of the famous skyline of Shanghai. The lightning of the city is a bit peculiar and is in serious need of some coordination by ...

... lessons... We managed to resurrect the night when a taxi magically pulled up at our darkest moment and whisked us away to the Bund. We took a ride through the Bund tourist tunnel (kind of a weird Willy Wonka-esque trippy tunnel with a light show) to ...

... styles from old China to modern influences in the buildings. It is a must-see metropolitan destination if you are in Shanghai! To view more photos of China, please follow the link below: ...

... a field as recently as 1990. Bamboo scaffolding is everywhere; you cannot walk a block without ducking under some. Even the park at the Bund, what is supposed to be the city´s most beautiful area, was completely inaccessible due to construction. At one ...

... for being the forthcoming modern power of China, I thought it appropriate to present the Top 5 signs that Shanghai is more modern than the rest of China. Note that I have been in Shanghai only a couple of days. 5. Smartcard hostel keys - a mere ...

... and private school kids that I know). Everything reflects this, but in particular the Shanghai fashion. Different from much of CHina, the Shanghai locals seem extremely fashion conscious and remind me much more of Korea. It's still not Milan, but it's ...

... skyline, made up of the Pearl Tower, Shanghai World Financial Centre (462 m high) and the Jinmao Tower, and to walk along The Bund, China's equivalent of Wall Street. Obviously a popular spot and we thought it was busy at midday, but a visit to the same ...