Shanghai - Day 3

(Travelled date : 31 Oct 2012)


Day 3 was our last day in Shanghai.

In the morning, after our lousy breakfast near the hotel, we took a taxi to one of  the most prominent landmarks of Shanghai - The Oriental Pearl TV tower.

On the way, we saw how the Shanghainese go to work in the morning. Ladies in nice outfit riding motorcycles wearing high heels which is a "never-seen-before" in Malaysia. In Taiwan, we did come across this scene, lots of Ladies riding in motorcycles. The motorcycles must be their mode of transport. We are the lucky lots, majority can afford at least a national car.

Going to work....

Well, after about 20mins of busy traffic, we were at the other end of Huangpu river from the Bund.

Oriental Pearl is a Radio and TV Tower. 

Viewing deck at 2nd sphere, 263m high.

Pa purchased the ticket and off we went inside to the building to queue for the lift up. Once we were up there in the observation deck, we were greeted with the view of Shanghai concrete jungle with all the tall buildings soaring up towards the sky.



What a concrete jungle!

Skyscrapers!

Huangpu River from the top. What a sight!

We then went one floor down to the awaiting Glass Deck. This is really mind blowing! Both the flooring and the wall are transparent! The wind was blowing through the open area and the temperature was quite low, it was cold!



Pa, standing "on air"!

It was not a big problem for me. I could just stepped directly into the deck, though a little scared.  The experience was one of the kind and wonderful!  Walking on something which is transparent and high. I felt like I was on top of the world.

Sitting down.....having fun

Us, looking down....

Facing down......enjoying the thrill!!

Mi was very scared at the beginning. She needed to hold on to my hand. But after a few steps and she was fine. We really enjoyed ourselves up there. Well, a lot of people up there also were scared of the height. We saw a man holding on tight to the railing and moved inch by inch with real difficulty.

 

After spending quite a while there, we went down to the museum located on the ground floor. The museum is very interesting with the history of Shanghai city.

 

 

Without us realizing, it was already way passed the lunch time when we finished. No wonder everyone was hungry. We then took a cab to the Yu Garden again . There we took our lunch and visited the temple .

Lunch, Xiao long bao of course!

 

 



 Yu Garden is very different in the day time. It was packed with tourists around the world.

Comfortable seat
 

The speed indicator.

It was then time to say goodbye to our short and brief visit to Shanghai city. We walked to the hotel to retrieve our luggage and off we went to the station to take the bullet train to Nanjing, our next stop.