Hi all! Toni and I have arrived safely in Shanghai, China. We landed just after 7pm Beijing (local) time and checked into the hotel at around 8:30pm with no problems. The taxi ride cost us about AUD $30 for a 45min trip (about 40kms). We’re staying not far from all the action in the PuDong […]
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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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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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