Jianguo Shanghai
No.439 Caoxi North Road, Xuhui District Shanghai, Shanghai, 200030, China
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A SNOT-NOSED ROCK STAR
The Shanghai airport is a 60-minute taxi ride from downtown. But, Shanghai touts having the fastest train in the world between the airport and the city. I have never been on a high-speed train, so when we got off the airplane I told our new guide, Sisi, that I wanted to take it. And we did. She and the driver would pick us up at the other end.
TURTLE SOUP--AND TEARS
Having arranged for an extra day in Shanghai by shorting our stay at our next stop, Guilin, by a day, we now had time to explore a little more leisurely. We took a drive with Sisi to Suzhou, the Venice of China. It is a town with a lot of Chinese history, gardens, canals—and a leaning pagoda which looked much like that structure in Pisa …
Second wind!
9-26-10
A night to explore on our own. Starbucks! FINALLY! Tomorrow AM definitely.
9-27-10
Damn, Starbucks doesn't open until 10 AM. That is just WRONG! Shanghai is the home of the World's Expo this year. The lines take several hours to make your way through so we did not attempt to go, but we saw the pavillions from the bus and …
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... We did do two of the major tourist attractions. Firstly we went to see the Tian Tan Buddha. This involved taking a half hour cable car ride at height over a combination water and jungle covered mountains. This did not help cure my dislike of heights. At the end of the ride was a number of cheesy amusements and the world’s largest, bronze, sitting Buddha. Now if a Buddha needs three selling points to become the best in the world I don’t think it ...
Shanghai Sights
... be spitting everywhere, eating disgusting smelly food and generally scaring the bjesus out of us. Surprisingly the journey was fine though our Chinese crew did talk VERY LOUDLY and often about who was making the next pot of green tea.
So we arrived in Shanghai fairly well rested and had a mooch about for a few days.
We ventured to the Shanghai Museum which was fairly interesting, and strangely they had an exhibition on Swiss ...



