Friday, February 17, 2006

Shanghai 14th Feb 2006

We arrived in Shanghai and checked into the Jiu Long hotel, which is aimed more towards Chinese business men than English tourists.
Its also quite a way out of the main city centre, which at first was a bit of a bind as we had to get cabs everywhere.
We have since found that we can walk into the city centre which takes quite some time, but does mean that we get to see loads of back street shops which we would have missed in a taxi.

The photos below are taken from the city centre.
Shanghai seems to have out done Tokyo with neon lights





If you look hard enough, you can get an idea of just how many people there are on the street at any one time.









A couple of photos from above taken during the day.
The city definitely looks better at night.






Some photos taken from the old part of Shanghai



The truck on the right is China Post.
All the parcels were being loaded from the truck and onto the bikes for delivery.













Whilst walking around the old city, we came across a day market housed in old buildings that had all been restored.














On the way out of the old city, we came across this police man who was handing out a ticket.
We think that it must be to do with over loading !!








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