Koala International Youth Hostel Shanghai
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No.1447 Xikang Road Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 200060, 021-62771370,021-62769430
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Oooh we like Shanghai. Our first impression was some rare integrated transport (straight from bus to metro) and the metro is comprehensive with long, long trains. Then we arrived at the hostel. It's a little way from the metro but it's amazing. We always stay in a room rather than dorms but our room is like a boutique hotel complete with jacuzzi shower, light controls from the bedside panel, a fridge, microwave and great bed. With a decent location it would be 200 Pounds in London and we pai...
Shanghai, Shanghai, China anslwithers
This hostel is more of a hotel than a hostel. Again. We are most certainly spoiled here. Everyone told us not to come to Shanghai, or to only stay a couple of days. We think they are wrong, and that this is our kind of city. We'll report back later. We got in yesterday and headed down to the Bund at sunset. We got off the train a stop back so we could walk through a famous shopping street. It was sort of like the third street promenade in Santa Monica, but with the neon of Times Square, and w...
Shanghai, Shanghai, China backpachyderms
It was actually a relief to get out of Nanjing in the end. We had meant to go there for 3 or 4 days and ended up being there 8. On the last morning I got up at the crack of dawn and went to the Public Security Bureau and collected my visa (which looked as though it had actually been ready for 3 days which is a bit of a bummer but I think you have to do what the police tell you in China and they said pick it up Thursday not Tuesday). Anyway, so instead of getting ourselves down the old train j...
Huangshan, Zhejiang, China simonmain1
Despres de tanta ciutat, tants gratacels, tant de trafec amunt i avall, em conve just tot al contrari. Esbrinar si a la Xina rural encara hi resta alguna cosa de comunista (que a Xangai a part de banderes i edifices oficials, no he vist res que sembles comunista en absolut). Aixi que he decidit agafar un tren (15 hores de trajecte, per sort la meitat de nit) cap a Huang Shan a la provincia d'Anhui. Pel nom no li deu ser familiar a ningu, pero si alguna vegada heu vist un dibuix xines a on apa...
Huangshan, Anhui, China tonicastells
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... Seeing foreigners amongst the local Chinese population does reflect the city itself, as you will find old colonial European buildings from the 1930's squeezed amongst the huge futuristic looking high rises - somehow, it's quite a charming look.
The only downside to the city has been that the main attraction, the Bund, is off limits due to more construction. We were really gutted about that because, as ...
... been teaching English in a school up in Yokohama for the past three years. And now finally, they are heading home on a circuitous route that will take them through southern China, into south-east Asia and across India. The third member of this party is a jovial chap from Bristol who was recently made redundant from his job in the construction industry (no surprise there) and who was undertaking a six week tour of Japan and China. More of him later.
Shanghai, China benedictdavies
... long. I looked this one up one day b/c I was so horrified by the number of men with disgusting long nails. I thought it was a city full of coke addicts or something. Apparently they do this to show that they are not manual laborers. I think it also must come in handy to aide them with all of their ear and nose picking. Now, the middle/upper class Chinese do not do this and many of the younger educated Chinese guys do not do this. Bellies are another whole topic ...
Shanghai, China mcooney74
Based on my story of the amazing hike on the Great Wall, Andy determined that the next thing I needed to experience was a foot massage, so we left the Pudong area. Apparently Andy, his wife and co-workers gets a foot massage after any long business trip because of its therapeutic effects. I am not sure what area we went to, but every other shop was offering massages...Hmm. In the salon, we got a private room ...
Shanghai, China ndsquirrel
... on the north side of the pagoda there was this incredibly large fountain complex, and the water jets were activated or choreographed to the music. The fountains were completely lined with people, several deep, with the more intrepid young teen set dashing out and about in and amongst the water jets trying to keep from getting clobbered by pulses of water being rhythmically shot out of the hidden jets. A seemingly great time was being had by all, from ...
Shanghai, China chop49
... Shanghai my favorite city in China. Our first night in Shanghai was packed with amusements. We arrived in our first youth hostel of the trip (normal rooms in every other city have been more than affordable - not so in Shanghai). Our eight-bed room was surely the worst disaster area I have ever observed: dirty clothes (even underwear!) piled high on the floor, makeup cases on every bed including ours, and four "party girls" dressing up for a night of drunken debauchery ...
Shanghai, China jweinstoCheck Rates and Availability
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