This year's China conference with work was in Shanghai and Beijing and the first stop was Shanghai. I got a chance to walk around some in the central parts before the conference started and started out taking the metro to Nanjing Road, the main shopping street. Nanjing East goes down to the Bund or Zhongshan East No 1 Road. The Bund was the heart of colonial Shanghai, flanked on one side by the Huangpu River and on the other side by hotels, banks, offices and clubs. It was extensively rebuilt for the World Expo 2010.
From the Bund you get a good view of Pudong with the modern skyline and the famous TV-tower.
From the Bund I walked along busy streets to Yu Gardens and Bazaar.
Yu Gardens is not really old but still appealing with its fanciful roofs. It was Sunday and very busy and it was impossible to find a tea house or a dumpling restaurant without long queues.
Instead of eating in Yu Gardens I could have had street food, of which there was plenty! But I was not ready to take that risk.
On the way back I walked by some street vendors. Some busier than others...
Local transport.
In the evening we went for dinner in Pudong and after that for a drink at the roof top bar at Ritz Carlton. The view over Pudong and the Bund was amazing.
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