Shanghai Travel Blogs - Page 3

I am starting to think about what to pack and bring. It's been raining so much in California the past few weeks, I hope I won't get too wet in China! The flight leaves on April 9 from San Francisco to Shanghai. I will spend only one night in Shanghai, so won't get to see it much on this trip. Other…

So...here is my 1st entry to this blog thingy...i have been putting it off for a while cuz i just have constant writer’s block...but most of all, i think that ever since my Sophomore Year High School Speech Class teacher asked...“Max are you a SLACKER???” I truly believe that! (freaking Mr. C…

Shanghai = shithole in winter Thailand = paradise all year around

Well its my final day here.  I've been in Shanghai now for a couple of days.  I actually didn't do much here, travelling can get tiring, so I booked a nice hotel room (nice as in $40, in Canada the same room $120), just chilled, caught up on some sleep, took a nice long shower, shaved.&nb…

Our last full day in China was set aside for more touristy activity. Weheaded off to the Shanghai Museum which all the guidebokks had given glowing recommendations to. They were right. The impressive building housing the museum spreads the various exhibits over four floors. To see everything proper…

haha...I am really lazy to type my journal, it's really bad for me to take more than a year to write my 10 days Eastern China Relaxing Trip 2006.....I want to start writing my 18 days Korea & Japan Winter Trip 2007 very soon, so I've to finish the 2006 trip first...yeah.. here it is... …

i'm usually not a big fan of museums but since it's permitted to take pictures in the shanghai museum and it is supposed to be well worth the 20 yuan, modern and 10 minutes walk away from the hostel i thought why not and it was indeed worth it. very nicely done, all the information is…

Na dat ik een hostel had gevonden ben ik naar "people square" gegaan alleen omdat dat wel centraal in de stad gelegen klonk, wat het ook was. Daar werd ik al meteen aan gesproken door 2 Chinese meisjes eentje zag er wel leuk uit de ander had gele tanden. Ze begonnen meteen al van ( wat ik on…

Traveling by your lonesome is a nice experience. This is the second time I traveled alone and I can say it's an interesting experience to submerge in one's culture even for a few days only

Shanghai itself was a blur--we arrived with the tail end of a typhoon that was battering the southern provinces and soaked us out the first day and a half. After the packed schedule of ECHT I was expecting an equally grueling schedule in China however we were left plenty of time to ourselves... too…

Woke up late yet again and after getting ready Ruth and I went to the Yu Yuan Garden. It was a very pretty garden but there was so many people there that it took us a little while to get in. The garden was like a maze it had so many different paths and hidden areas to explore that you could've…

So after a 10 hour flight from heathrow we arrived in Shanghai ans were informed that we will be inspected for swine flu by taking our tempertaure. After filling in the immigration forms we were free to go, so no inspection. At the immigration in the airport there were taking our temperature, but w…

This was actually my 3rd trip to Japan and I did it because of my japanese girlfriend I had that time. This country is in many ways so different to what Westerners are used to, so mysteriours, that usually visitors either love it or hate it. There's not much in between. I learned to appreciate Japan already during my first trip and I knew I had to come back. China was something completely different. More chaotic, more dirty and more unpredictable. Like the big clumsy brother of Japan.

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A whirlwind two week tour to see the major sights in China. Had dear old dad with me so that was a challenge and a whole lot of fun!