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[Shanghai]
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Last stop in China. Only two days left. Took in the Shanghai Museum, and the Jade Buddha Temple and tea ceremony.
Winding down, so didn't really take a lot of pictures here.
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Shanghai boasts some of the tallest buildings in the world. It is China's largest city, too. Our guide said there were 3000+ buildings over 17 stories tall, and 3000+ in the planning stages to be built in the next decade, or less. Wow! |
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Old and new. Not really sure what the building is, but I think it part of the old English consession area. |
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Night scene on the Bund--pedestrian mall adjacent to the river. Light rain at the time kept the crowds down. |
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Lioness protecting her young, and guarding the entrance to the Shanghai Musuem. |
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We grabbed lunch in a crowded place in "Chinatown" in Shanghai. Really built up, in the modern version of our view of what China looks like. The top two dishes are dumplings filled with vegetables and some meat. The lower dish is a sticky sweet wild rice. All were pretty good, for not really knowing what they were--it was one of those "point at what you want" places and we didn't really have much idea what we would be getting. |
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Linda had to sample a "soup in a dumpling" place. You stick the straw in to drink the broth, then use it to open the dumpling and eat the veggies and stuff inside. |
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I couldn't say if our Dollar stores stole from this, or vis a versa. Note the interesting spelling of "yuan," too. There were several of these on one short block, with barkers in front of each trying to grab everyone's attention. |
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Even monks have to shop sometimes. |
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We went into this store; "kintgoods" were actually clothing items. Another interesting spelling, I guess. Think flea market with very narrow aisles, maybe 1.5 person wide. Still, we found some real bargains. |
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Food vendor on the Bund. He had a line, so must have been good. This time next year he'll have a real push cart, probably. |
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Capitalism at its finest: advertising barge on the river. Actually, this ad was animated, and promotes the 2010 world exposition to be held in Shanghai. Not to soon to book your hotel, I suppose. |
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Another "point and eat" place. It took us a few passes of the "menu" to decide on something. It came out of the kitchen fairly quickly, and was good. |
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The live portion of the menu. We didn' venture over to it. |
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Book vendor on the street. All the title were Chinese, so we didn't stop to browse, even though we normally can't pass up a bookstore. |
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A "Chinese" keyboard. Really just like ours. A few I saw had some Chinese characters along with "Shift" "enter" and such. Turns out, they type in Pinyin, and software translates it to the usual Chinese characters. Doesn't seem to be a very efficient way, but even the text messaging of phones works that way. |
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Heading home at last. This is the departure lounge in the modern airport at Shanghai. |