Shanghai, China Travel Blogs

My host and interpreter on this trip, Yang Kai, is a very thoughtful young man. He's done a lot to spruce up the Shanghai office to make it comfortable. He purchased a very nice duvet for me to sleep in, set the heater to 30 celcius, even bought a box of ...

A travel blog entry by bagman
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... so Ron, Greg, and I went to walk around downtown. Ron is a very nice, and obviously hospitable, guy who's lived in Shanghai for a little over a year now and does computer work...his place is actually his uncles place, but his uncle only uses it for like ...

A travel blog entry by trent
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... 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 to ...

A travel blog entry by luolan
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... was actually like inside. The hotel doesn't look so bad from the outside and indeed it was quite nice. Hah, at Shanghai airport I was wandering around thinking 'ah yes, the bookshop will be over there..', then I remembered that I'd never been at ...

A travel blog entry by budz888
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... to cross paths with him at some point later on. So now for the first time there is only the 2 of us. Our journey to Shanghai was much less traumatic thankfully. It was only 17 hours and overnight so we had a hard sleeper which wasn't too hard at all in ...

A travel blog entry by emmaandemma
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... in Japan, none of these bikes were locked up. Look up the screen from this text and you'll see three examples of Shanghai bicycles. This is a 'Forever' bike - they're everywhere - especially popular is a version for the ladies Then there are the ...

A travel blog entry by bagman
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... ; I summon myself in time for a scrumptious dinner and head out to Xan Tian Di, the most popular nightlife neighborhood in Shanghai.  It rivaled Clarke Quay in Singapore, but only in appearance as it wasn't nearly as wild with a much more conservative ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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So I realize this is a bit of a cop out, but this is what you get for the rest of my time in Shanghai - pictures.  My schedule has just been too crazy with visits, future visits and the end of the school year coming...uh, now, for me to go into a lot ...

A travel blog entry by guavamama
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... 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: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ristinw/sets/72157605117319502/

A travel blog entry by cristinaw
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Mimi arrived in Shanghai with all her luggage. She got a SIM card for her cell phone, which I just called. I have the map pin on Mimi's home in Shanghai. It is right on her home because the map can be zoomed in a lot when entering it.

A travel blog entry by mikeysoft
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... in 60 applicants getting a job, many graduates throng to the civil service exam, a must path to employment. A recent China Youth Daily survey on website portal Netease.com shows around 86 percent of the 2,440 participants polled considered taking the exam ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... 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 swipe is all that is required. 4. The subway ...

A travel blog entry by marktjhung
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... handle your booze yajun!). later we meet for more shopping, and a short boat cruise, where we saw the more industrial side of shanghai. we go out for a farewell meal, which again was excellent, before making our way out to the clubs, a good time was ...

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea
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... . We had lunch in Cloud 9, the highest cafe in the world, on Sunday on the 87th Floor of the highest building in Shanghai the Marriott Grand hotel. The views were amazing, you could see every direction for miles. The river cruise is pretty cool as ...

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny
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... period of eight days and more, he said. The draft is expected to come out in March, and Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Beijing have started to draft their plans, Dai said. Guangdong is expected to become the first province to ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... capacity on its flights to 11 international destinations, including Los Angeles, Paris, Sydney and Singapore. Loss-making Shanghai carrier China Eastern is set to follow suit, citing weak demand on long-haul international routes. * With cross-strait ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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I didn't do much of anything today.  Slept in, checked internet and relaxed at my hotel.  Went out for happy hour drinks at a nearby beer garden and then picked up dinner.

A travel blog entry by exploreamerica
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... know more names, teams and games than I. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jul/28/michael-carrick-manchester-united-china-charity SavedURI :Hide URLdata:text/html;charset=utf-8,%3C!DOCTYPE%20HTML%20PUBLIC%20%22-%2F%2FW3C%2F%2FDTD%20HTML%204.01%2F% ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... back to Shanghai. It also gave us time to wash our stuff and a place to leave all the stuff we got during the last week. We are leaving Shanghai in the morning to Beijing. The 2 hour flight cost 580 rmb, about $75.00 USD including all taxes and fees.

A travel blog entry by mikeysoft
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... 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 not ...

A travel blog entry by marktjhung
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... Yiwu, a city of about two million people - small by Chinese standards - a four-hour train ride south-west of Shanghai. Entrepreneurial Arab businessmen have poured into Yiwu, sourcing cheap goods in the city's bustling wholesale markets to sell back in ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... it on! In the evening we took a walk along the banks of the other side of the bay to get a different perspective of Shanghai. I do think that when all the construction is complete, this is going to be a fantastic city and well worth a visit. We went ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... city is pure commercial hype," said Dai Xingyi, a professor at the department of environmental science and engineering at Shanghai's Fudan University. "You can't expect some technology to both offer you a luxurious and comfortable life, and save energy ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... yelling into his cell phone 2. You enjoy karaoke 3. You walk backwards in the park listening to a transistor radio 4. The China Daily is your source for hard hitting, fast breaking, investigative journalism 5. You smoke in crowded elevators. 6. All ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... only foreigner around the attention has waned a lot here with many English speaking Chinese similar to Hong Kong, a city Shanghai desperately wants to trump. Having a gander at The Bund, Shanghai's river front promenade, although impressive with it's ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... and tradition here and there is so much to see. Highlights have been The Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, Yellow Mountain, Pingyao, Beijing, Shanghai and romantic karaoke with a random Chinese guy! All in all, I am so glad that we have started our world ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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Well, New Zealand (and Australia) have enjoyed singer Greg Johnson, and now it's the turn of the US. This is from his website (http://www.gregjohnsonmusic.com/) Johnson moves with ease between the piano, trumpet and guitar and his concerts are ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... person in China used just 1kg of coffee a year, it would use more than a third of the world's production coffee consumption in China is increasing at 15% a year there is a coffee trade fair each year in China - http://www.faircanton.com/coffee/

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by exploreamerica
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... it and is pulling over to ask every regular Joe where it is and I end up directing him to the place - I mean, he's a freakin' Shanghai taxi driver for chris'sakes! Then I find out the consulate has moved, but just a few blocks away and, well, it takes a ...

A travel blog entry by trent
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