Shanghai China
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Shanghai China
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Shanghai, China's leading
industrial and commercial plus financial hub is located in
the center of the coast and on the Southern part of of the
Yangtze River delta.
The
Huangpu River flows through Shanghai, and is a major
commercial and tourist interesting part of the city,
everyone who saw the crowd at the rivers edge in the evening
know what importance this waterway has.
The
city is the commercial and financial center of China and it
became again a metropolis opened to the world as it was in
the past with land, air and sea connections to the world,
this is important for the tourist and business in general.
The
entertainment business was resurrected for the pleasure of
the local people and the tourist industry of Shanghai.
Highlights of Shanghai
The Yuyuan Garden is
perhaps the best example of a classical Chinese
garden. The closely Yuyuan Bazaar is a tourist
magnet and shopping centre with plenty of shops and
restaurants to relax from an exhausting day. |
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The Temple of the Jade
Buddha
The Yufo (Jade Buddha)
Temple was built in 1882 around a white jadeite
Buddha which was carried in from Myanmar by a monk
and presented to relevant people. Communists did
some dirty things with the temple, but not the
communists finally survived, it was the Buddha
Statue and the people who used their brain survived.
The Bund
a
business riverfront over around 1.5 km along the
Huangpu River. The wide boulevard riverfront along
the eastern side offers the ultimate view of
Shanghai and the crowd of thousands people enjoy
this view every evening. Several landmark buildings
are along the waterfront one is the most famous
hotel in the city,
The Peace Hotel (和平饭店),
a great building with a rich history and a even
greater view over the Skyscrapers of Pudong. This is
best enjoyed by a Huangpu River Cruise which is a
around 60km roundtrip passing the major landmarks of
the city and is a great Asian River Cruise.
The
Bridges
Several bridges are supporting the traffic in the
city, among them is Yangpu and Nanpu Bridge, both
are around 8km long, some of the longest bridges in
the world, a similar bridge is the Penang Bridge in
Malaysia, Penang Georgetown also a a large community
of Chinese people and is directly related to the
newer Chinese history since some of the Mao
opponents took refuge there.
The most famous Buddhist Temple
in the city is the Longhua Temple, which shows
clearly that all is finite, such as communists, any
dynasty and whatever but Buddha is infinite also in
China where the reds did everything do get rid of
this Philosophy plus Taoism and more, but all failed
miserably.
Nanjing Road
is partly a walking street only and probably the
number one shopping mile in the city, it is sad that
every day around a million people come here for
shopping, relaxing, sightseeing and more.
Oriental Pearl Tower
with almost 500m height is a perfect outlook to the
city. This 'watch tower' on the Pudong side offer
one of the best views over the city. The observation
deck is at almost 300m height and a breathtaking
panorama is for sure.
Around People's Square
the name is a remnant of old communist times, are
green patches, the new museum, city hall a
underground shopping center and the Grand Shanghai
Theatre.
The Grand View Garden
at Dianshan Lake is a ideal place to to relax and
let your legs dangle down, just don't worry, be
happy.
Shanghai Museum
is probably the most interesting place in town,
against this historic collections, artifacts from
old bronze items, ceramics, calligraphy, paintings,
old clothing, historic money and numismatic plus
countless other items of the past every city
skyscraper is secondary. A visit to the Shanghai
Museum is a must when visiting the city, you haven't
been there, you haven't been in Shanghai that's the
simple equation.
Another very interesting place
is the arts and crafts research institute. This
place in the old French concession has not much to
do with research but a lot with arts and crafts.
There are interesting tapestries, embroideries,
ivory and jade carving and plenty of other things to
see, the artisans do their job just in front of you.
Buy some souvenir there that's a place where real
handicraft is done, no kitsch.
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