Shanghai Blue Mountain Youth Hostel

bwauran stayed at this hotel on Jul 10, 2008 during their trip titled: Bwauran's Great Adventure

Shanghai, Shanghai, China bwauran

bwauran stayed at this hotel on Jul 11, 2008 during their trip titled: Bwauran's Great Adventure

Shanghai, Shanghai, China bwauran

bwauran stayed at this hotel on Jul 12, 2008 during their trip titled: Bwauran's Great Adventure

Shanghai, Shanghai, China bwauran

bwauran stayed at this hotel on Jul 13, 2008 during their trip titled: Bwauran's Great Adventure

Shanghai, Shanghai, China bwauran

Shanghai

Got the over night train from Hong Kong to Shanghai, arriving at 12pm. On the train we meet some other westerners and they were all american. have i ever told you how much i love the americans. Well its not a lot cause they go on and on. You guessed it these were not going to let the side down specially bloke called John and his son who were sleeping 2 rooms down from us. could hear him all night/day talking to a young chinese lad about theres this story back home and me me this and I love am...

Shanghai, Shanghai, China davechemical

Shanghai day 2

Just went for a walk around the city. Got loads of people coming up to us wanting to sell everything to us. Have noticed that you do get some funny looks from the chinese that they have like never seen a white man or the look of what the **** u doing here! Have had some coments about my tattoo which they like very much. Had my first taste of octopus today on the grill which was all good. Tomorrow getting the overnight train to xi'an. Whoo hoo!

Shanghai, Shanghai, China davechemical

Shanghai: cheap foot massages and cheaper beer

As we rode in the cab to the hostel, I knew we were getting close when we started driving around a sketchy area. It looked like our standards: ******. We were able to check into the Blue Mountain Youth Hostel early. When I pictured hostels before starting our journey, this is what I imagined. It very much had a back packers feel to it. There were people hanging around, which is not something we usually see since we travel in the off seasons. There was a lounge with a pool table, tables to han...

Shanghai, China deniseosu4

Shanghai

Shanghai! We noticed the difference in cultures the second we got off the ferry, our first sights were off some policeman trying to break apart a taxi driver and his customer who were screaming at each other right in the middle of the street! We followed a french guy who we met on the ferry as he knew where the bank was and as we were stopped by people trying to flog us hotels and everything you could possibly think of he rather loudly kept shouting and screaming about what rude people the ch...

Shanghai, China josephinelong88

Shanghai Showdown

Hello everyone Me and Pete have finally made it to our last stop on our journey, Shanghai! We arrived in Shanghai via high speed train from Suzhou (25th) which took all of 40 minutes! (Top speed was 250km/hr!). Once out of the train station we set about deciphering the Shanghai metro system, which has about 12 different lines! We eventually managed to reach our hostel (with the metro stop being right in front of it, handy for traveling such a vast city!), the hostel is pretty cool with friend...

Shanghai, Shanghai, China mark.wilson

Shanghai Express

This will be briefish, since I'm on a public computer and the keyboard is slimy and the light is dim, so I can't really see the keys. :(
Last night I slept on an overnight train! I feel truly oriental. To fill the gap between waking late and leaving early, I went to Beijing Zoo to see the pandas. I kind of wish I hadn't. I'm not an activist, but that zoo hasn't the awesomest aura. There are cracked windows on some cages, a lot of the areas are only concrete or mud, and no-one heeds the "N...

Shanghai, Shanghai, China marymc21