So what does Shanghai look like, anyway?

[akujunkan]

Well, it looks like this.

Day One




The airport. Little did I know when I took this picture with fifteen minutes to go before our 'departure' that I'd be staring at this plane for another hour before boarding.

But man, did I have good timing with this shot or what?





The Bund at night:






And by day:

My friend told me I'd see a lot of cranes in China. Silly, Western me thought she meant the endangered species. Oops.





The view from the hotel hallway:






The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel

It's 'myterious!'





The Pearl Tower:






The view from the top:






China is polluted, children







In the wax museum on the tower's first floor.

The kids on the street call this 'giving props.'



And there you have it. I'll put the Taoist temple in the next post to give your bandwidth some time to recover.

That will be all.