I woke up today in my room at the hostel and I didn’t have a clue where I was! It took me a while to realise, the hostel was actually quite noisy last night, I am just down the hall from the bar so I could hear people talking until 2am (the walls are quite thin) but the bed was really comfy and I then had a good nights sleep.
There are 10 of us from TTC staying at the hostel and we had arranged to meet in the bar at 10am to go to the markets with a Chinese friend of one of the group who is from Shanghai and offered to take us to the markets. As soon as we got there Sam, Heather, Lindsay and I realised it was a mistake, the market was packed (the whole city is as it’s golden week, but the markets especially) so we made our excuses and left. I wanted to see the Oriental Pearl tower so we got the subway there, the tower is 468 metres high and is the highest TV tower in Asia. The tower has a revolving restaurant at the top, an observation deck at 263 metres and a roller coaster inside the tower at 90metres which was really good. The views were amazing and the observation deck had a glass floor so you could see below you.
After the Oriental Pearl tower it started pouring down with rain so we went back to the hostel to chill out before everyone was meeting up again for food and to go out for the night in Shanghai. There is definitely a temperature difference between Shanghai and Beijing, Beijing is much warmer, but there is also the feeling that Shanghai is so much more advanced and modern.
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