An Asian Adventure: Shanghai

First of all, I am very sorry that I neglected the blog for about a week.

I am in Shanghai now for 5 days. It's still China, but it feels way different! Shanghai is much busier, "smaller" and more expensive than Beijing. And by "smaller" I mean everything is much closer together. The streets are not so wide, the houses are closer to each other and there is not as many space in general.

My first night was great. I met Laura and Alicia from SKKU. First we had been to Cloud 9, a bar on the 87. floor of the Hyatt hotel in the Jin Mao Tower. Mesmerizing view over Shanghai from there!

Afterwards the taxi driver drove us to a club whose name I never knew, neither do I know where it was. But it was great there!!

The next day I had a baaaad hangover, so I got up at dusk :-D I visited the Yu Garden. Very beautiful area, and I was lucky that I had been there when it was dark, but see the pictures yourself:

The next day I had a walk down Nanjing Road (a big shopping street) to the Bund (the riverside with a beautiful view to Shanghais most beautiful Skyscrapers). The street was packed with people. This was the first time I experienced the crowed to have more might then the cars! In fact, this is a shopping street like every other in Europe or all around the world, but a bis more flashy.

At the Bund, it was almost impossible to take a picture where no Chinese guy is on it, because there where sooo many of them! But I got one:

Though the next day was boiling hot, I decided to visit the Jing'an Temple in the west and the War Memorial Park in the south-west. The Temple was beyond beautiful, but on the other hand, I am sure that it has just been rebuild and nothing of it is original, as everything looked brand new.

I got back into the subway (oooh so wonderful cold down here!!) and made my way to the War Memorial Park. This place was huge as hell! The sun was boiling my brain, that made it really hard for me walking straight! I drank about 4 litre of water until 3 pm! I was pretty surprised, that except me, only a hand full of people was there. However, I appreciated it!