Koala International Youth Hostel Shanghai

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...

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...

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...

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...