We survived Typhoon Morakot....Shanghai only experienced some heavy rain and luckily we made all of our flights without any delays. Our favorite part of Shanghai was the acrobats. They were absolutely amazing and fantastic entertainment. We enjoyed Chinese tea and shopping for teapots at Tea City and the Jade Buddha Temple was full of activity.
The last day we took a 2 hour train to Hangzhou which is 115 miles SW of Shanghai. We were really proud that we managed to buy our tickets and get on the train without any difficulties since no one spoke English! Unfortunately the adventure was just beginning.....we kept getting kicked out of our seats by Chinese passengers and we finally managed to figure out that we didn't have seats.....but we found a place to sit in the dining car. Needless to say we were both pretty hot by that point. The Hangzhou train station was a complete circus and impossible to figure out what to do or where to go in the pouring rain. We caught a hired car to the Shangri-La Hotel to try to figure out what to do and then discovered that all of the trains back to Shanghai were sold out. They wrote a message for us in Mandarin and we hopped a taxi back to the train station, hoping to get anything available back to the city. Luckily we were able to buy the standing room only tickets again....except this time we knew what we were getting in to!!!
Shanghai acrobats.....
Balancing on top of 10 chairs......chairs are balancing on bottles......it was amazing!!
The Bund.....
Jade Buddha Temple....with lots of incense burning....
Shanghai sky scrapers.....
Quick drive around West Lake in Hangzhou while we were panicked to get back to Shanghai....
The last day we took a 2 hour train to Hangzhou which is 115 miles SW of Shanghai. We were really proud that we managed to buy our tickets and get on the train without any difficulties since no one spoke English! Unfortunately the adventure was just beginning.....we kept getting kicked out of our seats by Chinese passengers and we finally managed to figure out that we didn't have seats.....but we found a place to sit in the dining car. Needless to say we were both pretty hot by that point. The Hangzhou train station was a complete circus and impossible to figure out what to do or where to go in the pouring rain. We caught a hired car to the Shangri-La Hotel to try to figure out what to do and then discovered that all of the trains back to Shanghai were sold out. They wrote a message for us in Mandarin and we hopped a taxi back to the train station, hoping to get anything available back to the city. Luckily we were able to buy the standing room only tickets again....except this time we knew what we were getting in to!!!
Shanghai acrobats.....
Balancing on top of 10 chairs......chairs are balancing on bottles......it was amazing!!
The Bund.....
Jade Buddha Temple....with lots of incense burning....
Shanghai sky scrapers.....
Quick drive around West Lake in Hangzhou while we were panicked to get back to Shanghai....
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