Today is my last full day in shanghai so I decided to take a walk along the Bund, As I left the hostel it is a 2 minute walk to East Nanjing Road, the main pedestrian street. The walk is along two blocks and there are food stalls along it and restaurants with buckets outside full of live fish, crabs, frogs etc. There are also fruit stalls and this part in particular smells really bad, a mixture of rotting food and urine, this is actually quite a common smell on the streets of China and I have become an expert on breathing through my mouth and not my nose in these areas. As I reached East Nanjing Road it was then a few minutes’ walk to the bund, which is the water front with huge buildings on my side of the river which are all banks or fancy hotels and then across the river is Pudong, the financial district and area of the Oriental Pearl tower, Jinmao tower and Expo tower. While walking along the Bund I can tell the difference as the air is much cleaner than Beijing. As I reached the end of the Bund I realised I wasn’t far from the Yu yuan Bazaar and Yu gardens, so I carried on walking and browsing the market stalls on the way. As I reached the yu yuan Bazaar I sat and had ice cream and people watched for a while, this area is definitely the busiest and is also the old part of Shanghai.
I had a very pleasant afternoon and I returned to the hostel to shower and change ready for meeting Sam for dinner. We found a restaurant in the Pudong area and I had Peking duck pancakes, then we went to the Expo Observation tower and Hyatt hotel (same standard as the Jinmao Tower and the Ritz). We went up to the 87th floor and had drinks in the restaurant, the view was amazing and it was a lovely relaxing atmosphere, the perfect end to our week in Shanghai.
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