Tagged: Shanghai

Pretty Zhujiajiao, a day trip out from Shanghai

Zhujiajiao is a pretty canal village an hours bus ride out from Shanghai, it makes a perfect day out from the city with its quaint old atmosphere and attractive canal-lined streets, a complete contrast to modern Shanghai. Of course, all this prettiness and close proximity...

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum The day following the ‘smog from hell’ I was still on my own so I took myself off to the Shanghai Museum. The air was still pretty unpleasant so the calmly lit, air-conditioned interior was heavenly. The slick museum was built in the...

Glittering Shanghai

Glittering Shanghai Shanghai, just the name conjurors up an exotic, exciting city of vice, business, trade and history. Of glamorous Chinese women in vintage posters, of narrow alleys of opium dens and shops, of colonial powers and glittering skylines. The Shanghai of today is a...