SHANGHAI!
yo,
after having a deluxe train ride in soft sleeper from xi'an, I arrived to Shanghai this morning. found my way to the hostel, checked in and left my backpack, which i'm now by the way so tired of carrying around all the time. my poor old back will soon make a cracking noise and then i wont be able to stand up straight again, believe me. and I who was planning a three day hiking on the great wall with the backpack on me, God - which part of my stupid brain was I using again?
anyhow, arrived to Shanghai, went out for city-hiking. turned out that one millimeter on my map was 5 km irl. such a huuuuuuge city, no kidding. cars, buses, taxi, people and more people everywhere, and bikes of course. got lost around a million times, had a hard time actually finding the main shopping street (the bund) as i walked in the wrong direction all the time and ended up in some in-house market for fake bags and cheap shoes.
UGG's for 30 euros? Converse 10 euros? Rayban wayfares 10 euros? everything original of course, no fake.
shanghai is more or less what every backpacker have told me - not that amazing. enormous skyskrapes on one side, boring concrete blocks on the other. getting the feeling of stockholm's suburbs vs. hong kong, though the second is much cooler. nothing really interesting to see here, as the city barely has no history at all, and seing massive buildings aren't dead fun for such a long time. the pace here is fast going, lot's of chinese tourits, and lots of students / businessmen. it feels like everybody is in a rush to something, what exactly will become a mystery. My first impression was that the city doesn't have a soul. Might change my mind later, but for the moment, it doesn't feel like a place i wanna go back to.
So, did some touristing today, will jump on a sightseing bus tomorrow, go up in the pearl tower which is for the moment China's highest building. Saw some bazar i wanna check out as well, we'll see.
Planning to leave Shangahi early on monday, rescheduling a little. less days in Shanghai than planned, taking a small trip to Huangzhou instead, supposed to be as beautiful as Yangshou were I spent a few days a week ago. Then off to my final destination, BEIJING! Everybody I met loooooved it, so i'm so looking forward to it.
the USB on this computer is not working, dunno why, so sorry, no pics this time either. if i would guess, you wont be seing any until i get home again.. electronic things, you know..
xxx
after having a deluxe train ride in soft sleeper from xi'an, I arrived to Shanghai this morning. found my way to the hostel, checked in and left my backpack, which i'm now by the way so tired of carrying around all the time. my poor old back will soon make a cracking noise and then i wont be able to stand up straight again, believe me. and I who was planning a three day hiking on the great wall with the backpack on me, God - which part of my stupid brain was I using again?
anyhow, arrived to Shanghai, went out for city-hiking. turned out that one millimeter on my map was 5 km irl. such a huuuuuuge city, no kidding. cars, buses, taxi, people and more people everywhere, and bikes of course. got lost around a million times, had a hard time actually finding the main shopping street (the bund) as i walked in the wrong direction all the time and ended up in some in-house market for fake bags and cheap shoes.
UGG's for 30 euros? Converse 10 euros? Rayban wayfares 10 euros? everything original of course, no fake.
shanghai is more or less what every backpacker have told me - not that amazing. enormous skyskrapes on one side, boring concrete blocks on the other. getting the feeling of stockholm's suburbs vs. hong kong, though the second is much cooler. nothing really interesting to see here, as the city barely has no history at all, and seing massive buildings aren't dead fun for such a long time. the pace here is fast going, lot's of chinese tourits, and lots of students / businessmen. it feels like everybody is in a rush to something, what exactly will become a mystery. My first impression was that the city doesn't have a soul. Might change my mind later, but for the moment, it doesn't feel like a place i wanna go back to.
So, did some touristing today, will jump on a sightseing bus tomorrow, go up in the pearl tower which is for the moment China's highest building. Saw some bazar i wanna check out as well, we'll see.
Planning to leave Shangahi early on monday, rescheduling a little. less days in Shanghai than planned, taking a small trip to Huangzhou instead, supposed to be as beautiful as Yangshou were I spent a few days a week ago. Then off to my final destination, BEIJING! Everybody I met loooooved it, so i'm so looking forward to it.
the USB on this computer is not working, dunno why, so sorry, no pics this time either. if i would guess, you wont be seing any until i get home again.. electronic things, you know..
xxx
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