Jin Jiang Tower Hotel Shanghai

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We’ll be back!

A travel blog entry by yelkins

... down 3 streets and waited for the storm to come to us. I have never heard thunder this load before, I felt the wall rumble with it. It took about 15 minutes before the rain started when we had to take shelter in a nearby shop. As our sightseeing day had now been ruined by the weather we decided to check out some shops then head home. Today was more of a relaxed day as it was our last in Shanghai. We had amazing bacon rolls for ...

Day 8 Yu Garden, Old City & People's Square

A travel blog entry by lindayu99

We took our time this morning and left past 9am.

We had breakfast at a restaurant near the apartment - noodles & dumplings. The noodles are very taggy and tasty. The portions were huge. One bowl of noodles is almost 3 bowls portion back in Singapore!

The nearest station is DaShiJie just a stone's throw away. We took the subway to Yu Yuan (the line was not shown in the guide book luckily the kids took a pamplet ...

Shanghai school visit and after

A travel blog entry by susanne.gilmour

... towers seemed to go on forever, while giant cranes in their dozens indicated more rising fast from the city streets winding around the towers. Yan’an, being a more upmarket suburb, tended to be low rise, a mere 3 or 4 stories instead with wide tree-lined streets. We pulled up halfway down one of these boulevards in front of 8 foot high wrought iron gates, and a gatehouse with uniformed security guards. Behind in a Maoist era great grey-white ...

Five days of dumplings and other stories

A travel blog entry by oceans7

This is a top pick!

... immaculate grassed gardens with fruit trees, bamboo thickets glimpsed through the elaborately carved window shutters of the temple buildings and tea houses dotted amongst it all. The crowds were formidable even on a Monday; and as is so typical of functioning temples it was nestled cheek-by-jowl with markets and busy neighborhoods, muffled but still audible over the garden walls. After one of us who will remain nameless left her iPhone at the hostel, we got ...

Late Nights and Great Sights

A travel blog entry by dccshamrock09

... to guilt trip our waitress into getting a free drink. He argued that he was really 19 and the fact that he was almost carded in a country with supposedly no drinking laws had highly irritated him. Going a little far and claiming he would start crying if he didn’t get he free booze, the waitress responded with “this’ll help then,” and handing him some napkins. The table erupted in laughter at this point and TJ showed little ...

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