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Finally...the adventure begins. Thailand here I come! Yet first Jeff and I had a 10 hour layover in Shanghai. By taking China Eastern and having this layover in the Pudong Airport we saved $300 and got to spend a day in China!!!! Jeff and I paired up with two other English teachers in Hiroshima that were going to Myanmar, Larissa and Eric. I was a little worried at first since getting in and out of China usually requires a visa and a bunch of paper work. I mean...what if they never let us out of China once in? Worries aside we went into the city. It was quite interesting trying to get out of the airport. They had a special counter just for us 'transit' passengers and gave us really cool stickers to wear (sidenote: stickers as forms of tickets are a big deal over here in Asia). Getting to downtown Shanghai was one of the coolest parts of our trip. We took the first magnetic train ever that goes 450 km. We went 30 km in 8 minutes. It was pretty neat. Everyone (myself included) was taking photos when the train peaked at 450 km.
China: Best airport layover I have ever had.
Casey Lary2006-02-20 15:22:07
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Finally...the adventure begins. Thailand here I come! Yet first Jeff and I had a 10 hour layover in Shanghai. By taking China Eastern and having this layover in the Pudong Airport we saved $300 and got to spend a day in China!!!! Jeff and I paired up with two other English teachers in Hiroshima that were going to Myanmar, Larissa and Eric. I was a little worried at first since getting in and out of China usually requires a visa and a bunch of paper work. I mean...what if they never let us out of China once in? Worries aside we went into the city. It was quite interesting trying to get out of the airport. They had a special counter just for us 'transit' passengers and gave us really cool stickers to wear (sidenote: stickers as forms of tickets are a big deal over here in Asia). Getting to downtown Shanghai was one of the coolest parts of our trip. We took the first magnetic train ever that goes 450 km. We went 30 km in 8 minutes. It was pretty neat. Everyone (myself included) was taking photos when the train peaked at 450 km.
450 kph ooooh mmmmmmyyyy Gggggoooddd!Shanghai the four of us were a little lost. I mean, especially as a Westerner, Asians tend to look alike. I still have trouble distinguishing Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. As we started to walk down the streets it was not abnormal for us to be surrounded by Asians...it's our life in Japan....yet after 5 minutes we DEFINITELY were not in Japan. Styles were different, people were pushier, way more people in Shanghai than Hiroshima, people were loud, and we actually had to look out for pickpockets. It was fabulous, absolutely fabulous. I could not stop smiling. What a great place. The four of us jumped in a taxi and headed to the old part of the city to first wander around there and go to the Yu Yuan Gardens. The Chinese architecture around that area was incredible. There were people all over the streets trying to sell us knock-off rolexes and Louis Vuitton purses.
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