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Shanghai Slideshow
Shanghai
Travel Blogs from Shanghai, China
Shanghai
Back to shanghai to catch one of those bloody trains to Hong kong. It takes 26 hours, and i can never sleep on them ...
Getting to know the "Whore of the Orient"
... of the city's past, when British and French (and pretty much everywhere else) took advantage of Shanghai's position on the coast and turned it into China's busiest international ports, as well as a den for prostitution, gambling, drug and alcohol ...
The Photoshop..suey: The western lunch
Today's highlights: The two month travelling western lunch (cordon bleu); Visiting the downtown art galleries (Tianzifang); The begging Beijing business man. ...
Week 9: Bright Lights
... this week so there was some time to enjoy Shanghai in the evenings. Tamar and Nick are new converts to the ‘bike shanghai’ sightseeing method (and there are now two bikes for any guests staying at Chez Dixon Shanghai!) so on Wednesday we ...
Shanghai so far
My plane went from Detroit to Atlanta to Shanghai. I started getting real pumped when I was in Atlanta and I saw some lady waiting to get on the plane doing mad tai qi exercises. We boarded the huge plane and I was pleasantly surprised to ...
Ups and Downs
... boarding, but once you turned a particular bend, there was the third tallest building in China. And beside it was the tallest. Ha ha! The Shanghai World Financial Centre passed the Jinmao in 2007 (and the second tallest is in ...
Shanghai school visit and after
... nbsp; The guards checked our ID called the office and the gates opened slowly to let us in to one of China’s foremost schools. Shanghai province, I read later in an article in the Australian, has been acknowledged as currently having the most ...
Shanghai......
... the road. It is symbolic of Shanghai and gives a grand facade for those arriving in Shanghai by river. To Europeans it was Shanghai's Wall St, a place of trading where fortunes were won of lost. For the most part of the next day we combined sight seeing ...
Lazy Day
This morning we were able to sleep in because our morning class was moved to 2:30pm. We got up though and met up with some other people around 10:00 and went walking around the area in search of a book store. We found a little one that was mostly ...