Day 43 Tue Aug 1
Metro with many stops and 3 lines to Beijing South
Train Beijing South – Houzhou @13:20-18:53. A high-speed train going a long way south.
I was met by Anna at the train station for 4 days to celebrate her birthday. A typhoon was in the area but veered north towards Shanghai.
HUZHOU
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort (the Horseshoe Hotel). In the NM Architectural Delights series, it is a luxurious hotel and resort in Huzhou, This 10-story structure is on Lake Tai, rated 4½ stars, has 321 rooms, 37 villas, 40 suites, a presidential suite, four restaurants, and was completed in 2013.
ON Fuhong Mountain Hotel, Dongshen Village for three nights. 315¥/night. A lovely place in an old 3-story building and a yard. The hotel has original wood roof beams, lots of old furniture, and a lovely large room.
CHINA – ZHEJIANG INLAND (Hangzhou, Jinhua, Huzhou)
Day 44 Wed Aug 2
We had a very easy morning eating breakfast and lunch in our room. We went for a walk in the town and walked on the Taoyuan Walkway along the Panxi River. The river has old rock walls built on both banks and many breakwaters slowing its course. Many can be walked across. The walk was 3 km each way on a hot 34°C day with high humidity. We had dinner in our hotel room. Anna had bought all the ingredients for a salad.
ON Fuhong Mountain Hotel
Day 45 Thur Aug 3
We had another lazy day around the hotel. We played our favourite card game which is great fun – one game lasted 29 hands and we had many amazing scoring occurrences that rarely happen. Anna won. We drove 19 km into the nearby city to eat.
Day 46 Fri Aug 4
After a late start, we superficially visited the NP and continued onto Liiangzhu.
Moganshan NP. 60 km from Hangzhou and 200 km from Shanghai. At its base is the small town of Moganshan. Known for its cool temperatures during the region’s scorching summers, it has long been the playground of the Shanghai elite. Moganshan retains a country lifestyle with a mix of local inns and old villas built early in the 20th century (including the post-World War II villa of Chiang Kai-shek).
Visitors come for relaxation, hiking, and visiting a variety of scenic and historical spots, Moganshan is part of the Tianmu mountain range, with Mount Tianmu itself located some 50 kilometers (31 mi) southwest of Moganshan. Moganshan is 719 meters (2,359 ft) high. Moganshan is a major bamboo area, with lush bamboo forests on its slopes and surrounding areas.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RUINS of LIANGZHU CITY WHS. In the Yangtze River Basin, the ruins date from 3,300-2,300 BC and reveal a unified belief system based on rice cultivation in Late Neolithic China. It was an early regional state in the Circum-Taihu Lake Area located on a plain crisscrossed by river networks in the eastern foothills of the Tianmu Mountains in the Yangtze River Basin. It illustrates the transition from small-scale Neolithic societies to a large integrated political unit with hierarchy, rituals and crafts. There are four areas – Yaoshan Site, High-dam at the Mouth of the Valley, Low-dam, and the City Site. These ruins are an outstanding example of early urban civilization expressed in earthen monuments, urban planning, a water conservation system, and a social hierarchy expressed in differentiated socially-graded burials in cemeteries. The graves had many jade artifacts.
Getting there. From Hangzhou by metro, then 8km to the actual site by bus (Exit D). My girlfriend has a car and we drove here.
Liangzhu Museum. It is not part of the site and a few km before it. Very large and the only thing of value to see when visiting here. Excellent but not much English. The highlight is the jade discovered in the tombs. Free
Getting around. Tours are not necessary. Rent cute individual carts for 80, and take the 2-person peddle bikes or the free shuttle.
See. Not much of interest in the huge archaeological site with a lot of landscaping with ponds, canals, and bridges. See the old city gates, pillars, palace area and the tombs (with a small interesting museum).
Cost: regular 40, free if over 60.
It was 28 km to my hostel in Hangzhou. Anna dropped me off and continued on to return home.
ON Memory Travel Hotel, Hangzhou. A dorm room in a hostel. Possibly the most basic hostel I have ever stayed in. The only common area is two chairs and a small table at the top of the stairs. Beds are capsule beds in a very crowded room. What do you expect for 70¥?
HANGZHOU (pop 11,936,010, metro 13.035 million) is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been one of China’s most renowned and prosperous cities for much of the last millennium. It is a major economic and e-commerce hub within China. It is the fourth-largest city in China after Guangzhou-Shenzhen Pearl River agglomeration, Shanghai-Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou conurbation, and Beijing. The Hangzhou metropolitan area produced a gross metropolitan product $486.53 billion, making it larger than the economy of Nigeria.
Home to the headquarters of large global tech companies such as the Alibaba Group, Ant Group, and NetEase, Hangzhou is known for attracting professionals and entrepreneurs who work in information technology.
Day 47 Sat Aug 5
I had a bike about to see some NM sites mostly around the east end of West Lake. This was a massive cycling day in hot humid conditions. When I finally got back to the hotel, I laid down and had to deal with recurrent severe muscle cramps.
World Numismatic Museum. Hard to say that this is the best money museum in the world, as there are many. Lots of coins. Free
Zhejiang Art Museum. In another beautiful building with a huge glass skylight roof, most of the art is portraiture and the human figure. Many art students. The top floor has calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting. Free.
Jingci Temple is the second prominent Buddhist temple beside West Lake along with Lingyin Temple. The temple’s main hall has a Sakyamuni Buddha and is surrounded by beautiful gardens and pavilions. It was first built in 954 and was destroyed and rebuilt several times. The current temple was built in the 1980s. There is a newly forged copper bell made in 1984 that weighs over 100 kilograms.
China National Silk Museum. Everything you ever wanted to know about silk from the mulberry tree, the life cycle, the many kinds of silk, weaving, embroidery, history, and many examples of old silk articles and imperial costumes. Free
Hangzhou Zoo. In a gorgeous forest, it has all the classic animals including pandas. Good enclosures. Packed on a Saturday. 20¥ but free if over 70.
China National Tea Museum. Surrounded by tea plantations, this gives a good explanation of all the kinds of tea and the processing of each kind. Free
Lingyin Temple is another Buddhist temple, one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, and contains numerous pagodas and Buddhist grottoes. Founded in 328 AD and at its peak from 907–978, the temple boasted nine multi-story buildings, 18 pavilions, 72 halls, and more than 1300 dormitory rooms, inhabited by more than 3000 monks. It has been rebuilt no less than sixteen times since then and much of the current buildings are modern restorations from the late Qing (1644–1911) period.
Feilai Feng grottoes include several grottoes with 153 shrines and more than 470 carvings. There are many halls, some with impressive large Buddha images plus a Cultural Relics Exhibition, a texts library, and two carved Sutra Pillars 7.17 and 11 meters high dating from 969.
Hangzhou Botanical Garden. This is almost entirely trees – 200 kinds of birch (great fall colours) and 300 kinds of rhododendrons that flower in the spring. It is a large garden that oddly lets cars drive through but not bicycles making for a long walk. Free
West Lake Museum. On an island in the lake, the location had the remains of a Qing era Imperial Palace, but no museum per se. Free
Zhejiang Museum (Gushan Road). This museum no longer exists and was moved to the West Lake Cultural Center but is closed with no exhibits visible.
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. A lovely Catholic church with round vaulted ceilings, 3 naves, columns with gold Chinese calligraphy, nice Ways of the Cross (oil paintings in ornate wood frames) and the highlight, 11 stained glass window per side.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Located in the West Lake Cultural Center in the Wuling complex also housing the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, and the Zhejiang Museum of Science and Technology. This museum is closed.
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History. Many moth-eaten stuffed animals (especially the black bear in the lobby). A large exhibit on reptiles that became sea monsters! Mostly for kids. Free
Chongyi Church. Unfortunately, this magnificent structure was closed but I looked through several of the glass doors on the side – it is plain inside but soars to a high wall behind the altar.
It is one of the largest Protestant churches in mainland China, registered under the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Originally built in 1902, this was built from 2002-5 at a cost of US$6,700,000), and can accommodate 5,500 parishioners.
Translation into English is available by remote headsets. A small English Prayer service is held at 3:30 pm on Sunday.
ON Memory Travel Hotel. If one only needs a bed, this is ok. The minimal common area moves to the area in front of the desk at night – the host sleeps behind a curtain in the original area. All the lights are out.
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CHINA – ZHEJIANG COASTAL (Ningbo, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Jiaxing)
Tentative WHS
I was hoping to go to Hongqiao Town where Anna lives to pick up a couriered BMO credit card, but it was not sent after three requests, each stating that they would send it but by snail mail.
I had been to both these Tentative WHS with Anna before on my previous trips and included them here for completeness’ sake.
Yandang Mountain (29/11/2001). 186 sq km. Elevation 1056 meters. A Cretaceous caldera with rhyolitic volcanic rocks, the most representative ancient caldera of the huge volcanic belt in the West Pacific. 120-100 million years. Product of crust-mantle interaction during the subduction of ancient Pacific Izanagi plate under the Asian Continent. Mid-subtropical oceanic and monsoon climate, hot and rainy. Three ecosystems: 1. forest ecosystem – tropical or subtropical, mainly ever-green broadleaf trees; fresh water and ocean ecosystem. The peculiar shapes of rhyolites, peaks, waterfalls and deep pools, Yanhu Hill, Longqiu Peak, ravines and plank roads along cliffs, Chuyue Gorge, Mingyu Stream, Ling Rock. Yandang Mt. has various water landscapes such as brooks, springs, ravines, ponds, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, swamps and oceans etc. Furthermore, Yandang Mt.
Nanxi River (29/11/2001). a tree-shaped water system with 145 kilometers in length, is the biggest northern branch in the row reaches of Ou River. It flows between Yandang Mountain in the east and Guochang Mountain in the west in a subtropical monsoon zone,
Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site in China (29/01/2013)
Chinese Section of the Silk Road: Land routes in Henan Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; Sea Routes in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province and Quanzhou City, Fujian Province – from Western-Han Dynasty to Qing Dynasty (28/03/2008)
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Day 49 Sun Aug 6
Train Hangzhou to Shanghai South @11:30, standing. I had booked this late and all seats were gone despite there being 4 trains an hour. I sat in the hall for a while and then they moved me into the dining car.
Metro had many stops to my hostel with a 15-minute walk in the heat and humidity, and almost 4 after I got all set up so decided to rest and play bridge.
ON Shanghai Hidden Garden Youth Hostel. A very nice modern hostel with a large common area, several Italians and other Caucasians. 140¥/night. Here for at least 3 nights.
CHINA – SHANGHAI MUNICIPALITY
SHANGHAI (pop 24.89 million 3rd in the world, urban 39,300,000) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities in China. The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. Shanghai is one of the world’s major centers for finance, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, tourism, and culture, and the Port of Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port.
Originally a fishing village and market town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to both domestic and foreign trade and its favorable port location. The city was one of five treaty ports forced to open to European trade after the First Opium War. The Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession were subsequently established. The city then flourished, becoming a primary commercial and financial hub of Asia in the 1930s. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the city was the site of the major Battle of Shanghai. After the war, with the CCP takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries and the city’s global influence declined.
By the 1990s, economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping a decade earlier resulted in an intense redevelopment of the city, especially the Pudong New Area, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment. The city has since re-emerged as a hub for international trade and finance; it is the home of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, one of the largest stock exchanges in the world by market capitalization and the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, the first free-trade zone in mainland China. The Shanghai Metro, first opened in 1993, is the largest metro network in the world by route length.
Shanghai has been described as the “showpiece” of the booming economy of China. Featuring several architectural styles such as Art Deco and shikumen, the city is renowned for its Lujiazui skyline, museums, and historic buildings including the City God Temple, Yu Garden, the China Pavilion, and buildings along the Bund, which includes Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Shanghai is also known for its sugary cuisine, distinctive local language, and vibrant international flair.
ON Shanghai Hidden Garden Hostel. Dorm room for three nights. 142¥/night.
Day 50 Mon Aug 7
A Monday so all museums are closed in China. Have a big bicycle/walk/metro about to see lots of sites in one area with no museums.
Ocean Aquarium. Adjacent to Oriental Pearl Tower, it is one of the largest ocean aquariums in the world with the world’s longest submarine viewing tunnel 155 meters long. Exhibition zones include China Zone, South America Zone, Australia Zone, Africa Zone, Southeast Asia Zone, Cold Water Zone, Polar Zone, Sea and Shore, Deep Ocean Zone, and Special Exhibitions with 300 types and 15,000 water creatures and rare fishes,
It is the only aquarium in the world to have a China Zone with Yangtze Valley organisms and endangered aquatic species in China, the Chinese sturgeon, mullet, Yangtze alligator, and giant salamander. 160¥, 90¥ if >60.
Shanghai History Museum. In the Oriental Tower complex. Just two centuries ago, Shanghai was nothing more than a silty corner of the Yangzi Delta. The city has no ancient history: while its neighbours Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing took turns as the glittering capitals of China’s imperial dynasties, Shanghai was nothing more than a drab gathering of farming huts and fishing villages.
Yet its location meant that it was a city waiting to happen. The first development was a few farmers, fishermen, and traders, settled on the banks of the Huangpu. In time, They erected a small village attacked, many times by Japanese pirates. In response, the residents built a city wall, which surrounded the old city centre until 1912, just south of the Bund in a circular area defined by Renmin and Zhonghua roads.
In the aftermath of the Opium Wars of the 1840s, foreign concessions were established and eventually occupied much of what is now central Shanghai, except for the old walled Chinese city. The British, French and Americans brought modern business to Shanghai: rule of law, customs houses, post offices, courtrooms, and electricity and for the next century, the city boomed.
In the latter half of the 1800s, attracted by the money-making opportunities in the foreign concessions, the Chinese flooded in. The city rapidly became the place to be – a growing metropolis with the liveliest culture, the most opulent dance halls, the largest volume of business, and the tallest buildings. The foreigners cared more for commerce than morality, and licentiousness thrived: opium dens, prostitution, gambling, and gangsters.
With the emergence of the Chinese Republic after 1912, radical new ideas emerged in another Shanghai tradition. The Communist Party was founded in the city in 1921. The 1920s and ’30s were a golden age and saw the city boom – many of the familiar buildings on the Bund date from this period. Shanghai had become a brash, cosmopolitan metropolis – seedy yet glamorous, obsessed with making money. Organised crime was everywhere.
The Japanese invasion in 1937 remained restricted to the Chinese parts until 1941 when the international community capitulated. After the Communist victory in 1949, Shanghai became a grey, sober city. The Renaissance began in the 1980s, with the entrepreneurial zeal of the Shanghainese and inflows of foreign cash.
Shanghai was one of the first Chinese ports to be opened to Western trade, and it long dominated the nation’s commerce. Since the communist victory in 1949, however, it has become an industrial giant whose products supply China’s growing domestic demands.
Ocean Aquarium. One of the biggest in the world, it has the longest submarine tunnel at 155 m.
Exhibits include China, South America, Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, Cold Water, Polar, Sea and Shore, and Deep Ocean with 15,000 fish including rare poison dart frogs, jellyfish, moonfish, leafy sea dragons, and emperor penguins. It is the only aquarium in the world to have a China Zone with Chinese sturgeon, mullet, Yangtze alligator, and giant salamander. 160¥, 90¥ if >60. Tours 100¥
Super Brand Mall. A mammoth 8-story mall with all the name brands.
There are many ways to cross the river. The Bundt Sight Seeing Tunnel was expensive so I walked to Metro Line 2 which ended on East Nanjing Street, a large pedestrianize street, and walked down to the Bundt.
Peace Hotel. Originally built in 1929 by Sir Victor Sassoon and called the Cathay Hotel. It had many famous guests, some discussed on storyboards along one hallway. Renamed the Peace Hotel in 1956 when the International Symposium on World Peace was held in Shanghai. It was totally renovated in 2007-10 and renamed the Fairmount Peace Hotel.
The atrium is lovely with an octagonal stained glass ceiling, four metal bas-reliefs, and a glass dove in the middle.
Astor House Hotel. Presently closed. Called the Pujiang Hotel from 1959-2018, was described as once “one of the famous hotels of the world”. Established in 1846 as Richards’ Hotel and Restaurant at the confluence of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek. The hotel closed on 1 January 2018, after being purchased and converted to the China Securities Museum. It occupies an entire block and is across the road from the Russian Consulate. In 1843, Shanghai was declared open to foreign traders. It had many owners, renovations and additions. In 1882, it became the first building in China to be lit by electricity, and in 1883, the first in Shanghai with running water.
Xing Hua Lou Restaurant. I don’t think this place exists anymore. I tried for some time to find it – hidden down tiny lanes in the middle of a housing district, just west of East Nanjing Road.
Park Hotel. On East Nanjing Street, this was built as a classic 15-story hotel. The deli is wildly popular with a lineup of several hundred metres.
People’s Park is a large heavily treed public park with a large lotus pond, paths and picnic tables. It has a famous marriage corner.
Lao Ban Zhai Restaurant was established in 1905 with homestyle food including noodles and soup. The kitchen is exposed to the side of the tables.
Da Fu Gui Restaurant. Across the street from Lao Ban Zhai, this has an elegant side on two floors and a fast food “dumpling” side. Dates from 1881.
Lao Zheng Xing Restaurant. Established in 1932, it was busy serving traditional Chinese fare (noodles and dumplings) at good prices.
De Xing Guan Restaurant. Very expensive. Dating from 1875, it has six floors with a lobby on the bottom.
Shen DaCheng Restaurant. Started in 1932, this busy place serves simple Chinese food – dumplings and noodles – what we might call fast food but a proper restaurant.
Don Tai Road Antique Market. This market has been closed for some time and is basically been totally replaced by the large Old Shanghai complex. Was part of Old Shanghai – there appears to be only one antique store in the large complex but I couldn’t find it easily.
Xiaotaoyuan Mosque. A simple square prayer hall with a coffered ceiling, a simple white mihrab, and a wood minbar. Two minaret-like towers on each corner. It was empty.
Huxinting Teahouse. Originally built in 1785 and part of Yu Gardens, it was converted to a tea house in 1855. Sitting in a lake and accessed by a zigzag bridge. It has overpriced tea sets. 
Yu Garden is an extensive Chinese garden near the Old City of Shanghai.
First built in 1577, it was added to and renovated many times and all the original buildings were destroyed over the years. It was brought to its present state from 1956-61 with a garden style from the Ming and Qing Dynasties with decorative halls, elaborate pavilions, ponds, zigzag bridges, archways, and large rockeries divided into 6 areas.
Yuyuan Bazaar is next to it. It has Chinese architecture and design coupled with hundreds of shops selling pieces of jewelry, silk, antiques, arts, crafts, souvenirs, and local snacks, a delicate balance between scholarly elegance and gaudy consumerism. Enter from the bazaar via the Nine Bend Bridge. 30¥, no reduction.
Former French Concession is very large (about 8 km wide, stretching west of the Bund). It is known for its tree-lined avenues, great for walking and exploring the cafes, bars, breweries, boutiques, art galleries, and antique stores.
Sinan Mansions. In the NM Open-Air Museums series, this is a collection of 51 Western-style buildings built between 1920-30. Most have been renovated and hold shops and restaurants. There is a small museum. Free
Fuxing Park. Built in a French style, it is a lovely park with walkways, ponds and a lot of big trees. Across the street from the Mansions.
Former Residence of Sun Yat-Sen. In the French Concession backing onto Fuxing Park. It is a large Western-style house displaying much of his history with few original artifacts.
I ate at a BK and biked to the nearest metro to return on line 4 to the hostel.
ON Shanghai Hidden Garden Hostel. Our dorm room is an unbelievable mess with stuff all over the floor. One guy is a big snorer.
Day 51 Tue Aug 8
Another big bike and metro day. I saw all the sites in the “centre” on Monday and today was a long circle seeing all the ones on the periphery.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. 20,000 refugees eventually settled in Shanghai. Before 1941, many came overload via the USSR, but many routes were taken. By 1951, virtually all had left to settle in Israel, North America and all over the world. They were placed in bare refugee camps during the war. Small exhibits on the Holocaust. 20¥, 15 if over 60.
Shanghai Railway Museum. A small museum with a loccomotive outside. All in Chinese so I got little from the museum. The highlight for the locals appeared to be watching a woman drive a high speed train.
Jade Buddha temple.
Lane 189 shopping mall. 8-stories, two below ground. The usual stores. Metal geometric facade.
Ohel Rachel Synagogue is a Sephardi synagogue built in 1920 by Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon in memory of his wife Rachel, It is the largest synagogue in the Far East, and one of the only two in Shanghai. Built as a scaled-up neo-Baroque pavilion with an Ionic portico between massive rusticated piers. The cavernous sanctuary has balconies on the second floor with a capacity of 700 people.
In WWII, it was converted into a stable, and in 1952 was seized and stripped of its furnishings. Almost all of the city’s Jews had emigrated by 1956. In the late 1960s, it was a warehouse and was finally restored in 2004.
This synagogue is closed virtually all the time except on Israeli holidays (when there is an influx of Israeli tourists??). It is empty with nothing inside.
Jing’an Temple is an esoteric Tangmi Buddhist temple. The original temple was first built in 247 AD and during the Cultural Revolution, the temple was razed and turned into a plastic factory. In 1983, the temple was rebuilt and then expanded. In 2009, a 15-ton silver statue of Buddha Rudra cast in pure silver was installed and more than ten 3-ton silver statues of the Bodhisattva and the disciples were added to the Daxiongbao Hall. The Jade Buddha Hall has a 3.8-meter jade Buddha, the largest sitting jade Buddha statue in the country
Yuanming Jiangtang is a Buddhist temple built in 1934. During the ten-year Cultural Revolution the Red Guards attacked the temple in 1966. A Buddhist seminary was re-established in 1997. It has only three halls and was not very interesting.
Former Residence of Ba Jin. Ba Lin (1904-2005) was a famous writer who lived here after 1955. In the French Concession, this was a three-story semi-detached Western-style house. It could not be entered.
China Maritime Museum. A lovely small museum with many great models. The upper floor highlights C Y Tung, the architect of the Chinese shipping industry. nmbhgytr
St. Ignatius Cathedral. A wonderful cathedral with 5 naves, multilobed columns with elaborate capitals, arch vaulted ceiling, and great stained glass – a high row, a lower row and 2 big rosettes at the cross. The Ways of the Cross were nice oil painted on metal with ornate wood frames.
Old Xuhui. Xuhui is a large urban district. Old Xuhui was donated to the Roman Catholic Church and the core of Catholic Shanghai. This was a centre of Christian missionary activity in China in the 17th century. During the late 1800s, Jesuit priests established a major library, a printing establishment, an orphanage, and a meteorological observatory.
Vestiges of the French influence can still be seen in the St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai, Xuhui College, the Xujiahui Observatory, and some remaining boulevards and French-style districts. Parts of today’s Xuhui District were once the premier residential districts of Shanghai. It has been redeveloped into many commercial areas.|
Shanghai Film Museum. On one floor (the 4th), this is a very glitzy museum with great displays. Hard to relate to as refers to Chinese films. Shanghai has produced 800 feature films, 500 scientific documentaries, 2000 animated films, and 1300 dubbed films. Free if >60.
Longhua Temple is the oldest and largest Buddhist temple in Shanghai. It has a 7-level pagoda and 7 halls loaded with Buddha images.
Lupu Bridge is a through arch bridge over the Huangpu River connecting the city’s Huangpu and Pudong districts. It is the world’s third longest steel arch bridge, after the Ping’nan Third Bridge in Guangxi and the Chaotianmen Bridge in Chongqing. The bridge has a total length including approach spans of 3,900 m (12,795 ft) and opened on June 28, 2003. The main bridge structure is 750m long and the main span of 550 metres (1,804 ft), over the Huangpu River is 32 metres (105 ft) longer than the previous record holder for the longest arch bridge, the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia. It cost 2.5 billion yuan (US$302 million),
Power Station of Art. It had only one exhibit – Paris Moderne 1914-1945 – a lot of architecture (drawings, models, photos) and some fashion. Free if over 60
Nanpu Bridge. Sister bridge to the Yangpu Bridge, it is one of the main bridges in Shanghai. It is a cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 428 meters (1,388 ft), shorter than its sister bridge. It is the 57th longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, opened to the public in 1991.
ON Shanghai Hidden Garden Hostel for the third night. There was an electrical fire on the third floor at 12:30 am and we were all evacuated. I was already packed and was able to grab all my stuff but seemed to be the only one with their luggage. After almost 2 hours they were going to send us all to another hotel but eventually cleared the two floors and allowed us back in.
Day 52 Wed Aug 9
Metro line 4 to line 2 that ends at the airport.
Flight. Shanghai Pudong to Seoul Incheon. Ariana Airlines. @11:40-14:20.
I didn’t see: (all were long distances apart and in the periphery of the city.
Sheshan Basilica
Shanghai Botanical Garden
Shanghai Natural History Museum
Zoological Park
Auto Museum
Changfeng Ocean World
Shanghai Planetarium.
Jiuduansha Wetland National Nature Reserve
Lao Fan Dian Restaurant
Jīgǔjiāo Lighthouse
Bizzarium: Thames Town
Zhoushan: Donghai Bridge
Theme Parks, ‘Fun’ Museums and Miniatures
Happy Valley Shanghai
Jinjiang Action Park
Shanghai Disneyland Park
Railway, Metro, Funiculars, Cable Cars
Fuxinghao High Speed (Beijing-Shanghai)
Maglev (to Shanghai Pudong)
Chongming/Changxing/Hengsha Islands
Zhujiajiao: Yuanjin Temple