China - never a dull moment!

[stm1sydney]

If you have longer stays you can also day trip out to places like hangzhou.

For a day trip, I would also suggest Nanjing/Nanking. Not "nice" as such but a visit to the massacre museum provides an opportunity for reflection.

 

[moa999]

And another..

What the.


Plus another sign of the amazing connectivity in China.

 

[daft009]

Yeah the traffic light API access to cars is amazing!

I travelled in the cool hiphy EV which has since gone broke but amazing and so many other EVs!

The CBD is so quiet with EVs zooming around everywhere

On the way back home now, in Singapore for the day

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Any other must-do's in Shanghai?

Shanghai Tourist MUST sees:

• Jazz band at Peace Hotel
• Night cruise on Huangpu River to view Bund lights
• Visit the Bund itself
• Fake market at Science and Technology Subway Station
• Xin Tian Di
• Stroll pedestrian mall Nanjing Lu
• YuYu Gardens
• Shanghai QiBao Ancient Town,
• Binjiang Park across from Bund – take in Flar at RC Pudong whilst there
• Shanghai Aquarium
• Jing’an Temple

 

[Cruiser Elite]

And whilst I am at it I should add Beijing also:

Beijing Tourist MUST sees:

• Great Wall
• Forbidden City
• Tiananmen Square / Mao Tomb
• Summer Palace
• Temple of Heaven
• Ming Tombs
• Hutong Tour
• Beijing Duck Restaurant
• Wanfujing Street
• Pearl Fake Market

FTR - I have always preferred Beijing much more than Shanghai

 

[SYD]

FTR - I have always preferred Beijing much more than Shanghai

Doing both soon for the first time (Long overdue but still playing Covid cancellations catchup). A similar trip booked for early 2020 was of course the first of many to “enhanced” into a staycation…

 

[TheEmu]

For a day trip, I would also suggest Nanjing/Nanking. Not "nice" as such but a visit to the massacre museum provides an opportunity for reflection.

I found the massacre museum deeply unpleasant and quite disturbing. There are hundreds of great places to visit in Nanjing, with recorded history back to 475 BC. Some places to visit off the top of my head: the Presidential Palace with the Xuyuan Gardens inside; XuanWu (lake) Park area is huge, with a Japanese Garden on one of the islands, all of which are connected by footbridges, parts of the original city wall, Jiming temple are all close by. Purple Mountain (Zijin Shan) is also huge and has an Observatory, Dr. SunYet-Sen's mausoleum, the Xiaoling mausoleum from the Ming Dynasty (1300s), among other things. Zheng He (the Navigator) Culture park also from Ming period, ZhonghuaMen (Zhonghua Gate) is southside - a castle-city gate, a Qinhuai River cruise at night is quite spectacular but avoid the Confucius Temple (Fuzimiao) tourist trap which the river cruise will pass through.

 

[mrsterryn]

Hoping to have our first real trip to China some stage this year or next
Hoping to bribe a son and his family to come with us .
Looks like loads of posts I will need to read
Though which is better to fly in/out of , if there is a difference between Shanghai and Beijing. Most likely with Cathay

 

[Cruiser Elite]

IME over 25yrs ZERO diff which to fly in / out - done both by 100s of tines.

Whatever you do a Business Class trip on HSR usually knocks peoples socks off when they experience not only the train ride itself but the terminal experience also. The infrastructure the Chinese have built coupled with the precise on time operation just needs to be experienced. But as always YMMV

 

[SYD]

Most likely with Cathay

That’s what we’re doing. There was an excellent J Sale a few months ago. I think it was a Beijing Sale but open jaw home from Shanghai was the same price.