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China, September 2005

Day 8

This morning we moved into town from the suburbs and rented out a "service apartment" at the Allison Apartments.  The hotel "La Residence" provided us with two bedrooms, two baths, a living room and a kitchen for RMB 580 per day.  Once we settled in, we took a taxi into downtown with my parents and then split up.  Poobie and I headed for the south end of the Bund where we bought a map and proceeded to do all of the crappy touristy things they listed in the book.  We took a bad ride through the stupid "laser light show tourist tunnel" but were pleasantly surprised with the excellent sex history exhibition.  We went up the Oriental Pearl Tower and visited the Shanghai museum underneath.  Both of us were very pleasantly surprised at the great exhibits at the Shanghai museum.  It was really extensive and had great displays.  

We decided to take the metro home and found out that the station was just a 15 minute walk from the apartment.

That night we indulged in a little western style food and had pizza and steaks at a pub.

Can you identify the Oriental Pearl Tower?  How about Jinmao Tower which houses the world's highest hotel?

Strolling on the bund.  Two Magnum bars in my tummy....

Strolling on the Bund in the other direction with the 20 RMB bag purchased in Nanjing slung over my left shoulder.

Better exhibition than the Sex Museum of Paris.  Admission to the exhibit was included as part of our tickets that took us under the river into Pudong in silly automated cars with an even sillier light show.

Interesting sign for Communist China.  Sorry about the blur, photos were forbidden so we had to take these covertly.

Throughout the trip Poobie carried the small notepad with pen and took bullet point style notes which I am now using to refresh my memory as I write about this trip.  What kind of bullet point do you think he is writing here?

In the 350 meter high "Space Module in the Oriental Pearl.  To my right, the Jinmao Tower.  The top of the pearl is at 468 meters making is smaller than the tallest towers in Toronto (553) and Moscow (533) but taller than the Eiffel Tower (321).  To get to this level of the pearl cost 100 RMB each.

Looking down at Shanghai, specifically the Bund, from the Oriental Pearl.  This major river, the Huangpu, flows to an even greater river, the Yangtze.

An ancient convenience store in the Shanghai museum in the basement of the Oriental Pearl.

OK, I know this is not PC, but I actually grew up with this toothpaste!

Poobie at the base of the Oriental Pearl.  The young women who attended the elevators spoke phonetically memorized English.

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