Thursday, August 20, 2009

Shanghai by night

Today, we met my friend Valerie from Ohio State for lunch at Nanjing Road, China's most popular shopping district. We didn't shop...only ate at a really good (expensive) salad and sandwich restaurant near the Ritz-Carlton.

Afterward, Dad went back to the hotel for a nap, and Valerie and I went walking around People's Square and the Citizen's Park. Of course, the bottom fell out as we were walking up the stairs of the subway station. People's Square is really nice, though.


Afterward, we went back to the hotel and picked up Dad. Then we went to Yunnan Road's "night market." It was actually a road that had a lot of good little restaurants on it.





After that, we went to the Bund so we could see the Lujiahui Financial District from across the river at night. Unfortunately, the city government is carrying out a massive overhaul of Shanghai's most popular destinations, which means for us, there was no good view from the Bund.

So, we took the ferry across the Huangpu River.



After that, we took a short bus tour and walked around near the Oriental Pearl Tower.








Shanghai has one of the best skylines I've ever seen, especially at night!

3 comments:

Zhou Zhenning said...

I need to be in Shanghai. Now.

Unknown said...

ok so you and daddy are still looking good although daddy is starting to look a little ragged. haha have fun

Matthew Archer said...

jennings, hurry home.

mom, yes. he's old and tired haha