Shanghai

If you want to see past 500 years in China, come to Shanghai

Shanghai is China's glamour city, It borders the East China Sea to the east, Hangzhou Bay to the south.
Architecture
It has 3 of the world's ten tallest buildings rise up proudly (The shanghai tower, world financial center, and jin mao tower).

1. The Bund
Come here day and night to experience Shanghai's world class city with the soaring skyline.

Across from the Bund is old world charm. We went inside the hotel and it looks like this........

2. Oriental Pearl TV Tower
You can climb up to see 360 view of Shanghai harbor, then go to the sky deck to take picture of the glass floor.

3. Yu Yuan Garden
It's a garden in the middle of the city.

4. Xintiandi - where the first congressional meeting was held, also close to french concession

5. What we ate the first day.

6. Where to stay? We stayed at Radisson Blu, it has a space ship on the top for viewing deck.

7. People's Square
Come in the morning you can watch people dancing and doing kung fu

8. Nanjing Road
Busiest shopping and eating street and also has a lot of history.
Nanjing Road in the 1930's

Nanjing Road today.

9. Era acrobats
Really entertaining show!

10. Zhujiajiao
It's like Venice in China.

11. Mr. and Mrs. Bund
On our last night and our anniversary, we celebrated at Mr. and Mrs. Bund.
It was divine!
There is a door that you had to ring the doorbell to get in the restaurant.

The view outside. This concluded our China trip!

Guilin

If you want to see the most beautiful scenery in China, come to Guilin.

1. Longi Rice Terrace Field
Greetings from the Zhuang tribe

 We get to walk to the local villages and check out their houses. Here is the chicken farm.

We are at the rice field.

We ate bamboo sticky rice.

2. That night we went to see a show called Liu Sanjie, there were 3000 people, a big production! The best part is when they revealed the mountain in the back drop.

3. Where to stay? We stayed at Shangri-La Guilin, it has a wonderful backdrop of karst mountains.
wonderful breakfast, and a little zoo in the back.

4. Li river boat cruise
If you look in the back of $20 yuan, you can find the scenery of Guilin.

5. Bicycle trip in Guilin

6. What to eat? We had beer fish on East Street.

7. Cooking class in Guilin

8. Climb the mountain in Guilin

9. City center in Guilin