Completing our journey, here are some parting shots from our time in Shanghai earlier in our trip. Nanjing rd – Shopping Precinct Toni outside Jinma Tower Shanghai is typical of a large International city, impersonal and expensive, and lacks the character of smaller cities like Hangzhou. View from Jinmao Tower Shanghai Planning and Exhibition […]
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A special New Year’s post just for you (and the rest of the Internet!) – some select photos from Toni’s exploration of Hangzhou. Full credit to Toni for her mastery with her splendid Olympus camera. Here are three highlights. A view of the lake Around the lake precinct Great view of the mountains across the […]
Continue ReadingLeaving Shanghai
We’re currently at Pudong International airport waiting for our flight to open. We took the train from Hangzhou and then caught a cab from Shanghainan station to Pudong Airport – about 30+kms away. For the record it cost us just 146 Yuan or about AU $24! If we had even a basic knowledge of Mandarin, […]
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