You dreamed to visit Shanghai, we propose a course for one weekend to you.
That you arrive of the airport of Shanghai or the central station, I advise you to visit the historical quarters during the morning: indeed, this district is splendid with its narrow streets and which are scented by the salesmen of Tofu and roasted meat. This district in the south-east of Shanghai east built around Wenmiao Temple. A temple dedicated to the precepts of Confucius. A temple to visit to request there (or not), but also louse to admire the incredible gilded sculptures which this place shelters. You will also see there the way in which the Chinese request while holding of the incense sticks.
Innumerable stores for tourists and memories are present, the prices are correct and I advise you to negotiate because they can be even gravitational. More especially as the negotiation is a quite Chinese practice with which it is worth to also yield. A very interesting memory and very exotic are to be made engrave a seal with its name. For 2euros approximately, the merchant engraves your name translated into Chinese characters, then using a red inking-pad, you will be able to impose your seal on all your letters.
After having tasted the “ChaoTofu”, one of the culinary specialities of Shanghai, near a small merchant, eat in a “food center”. A “food center” is a stage reserved for the restoration. Around a space where tables to lunch, small stores sell all the types of Chinese dishes. The selected dishes it is enough to find a table and to eat. That can appear pain-killer, however a food center is a true factory, a way of eating which one does not see in Europe. You eat will not be able there to more forget the impression this meal.
The satisfied belly, take a taxi direction “Renmin Guangchang” (People' S Square) in French the place of the people. A small park is located behind the place, take a little rest in this green area bordered by all the large towers of Shanghai, one also sees a church posed in the middle of this very modern atmosphere.
Shanghai is known in all the area also for the good deals which one can make there. Yes, Shanghai is for the Chinese a destination for shopping. If you seek young articles and “fashion”, direct towards the East of the place: Raffles City is a shopping mall on more than seven stages where all large the Chinese and international marks are represented. In period of “balances”, good deals are really present.
Another great center is at the entry of Nanjing Road and is called “Empirium” translated into French it is the new world. This center was most known of the city a few years ago however it is in lose speed vis-a-vis the commercial street of Nanjing Road (NanjingDongLu).
It is “Mecque” of shopping, the street extends from the place of the people to the river.
Enormous, it is the qualifier which one can give at this way pedestrian whose the two with dimensions ones are exclusively made small restaurants and shopping malls which accommodate all the famous brands of the world. It is not rare in this street of Shanghai to cross several times the same store.
Jewellers and stores of watches of luxury present exclusive models. What is formidable, it is that all the types of consumers can find something that it interests them, being given the possible infinity of choice.
All the street is punctuated by advertizing screens and tourists, a true animated place of the town of Shanghai. Before leaving Nanjing Road (Chinese NanjingDongLu), do not forget the photograph memory in front of the plate where it is engraved in Chinese “Mall of Shanghai Nanjing Road”.
By continuing straight, one starts to see the tower of television of Shanghai and the buildings which face the river. On the end of Nanjing Road, shops sell the Tee-shirt with Shanghai writing - 上海 in front of, for four euros bring back an original gift for your close relations.
Shopping and crowd tired you a little, a large bowl of air will make you good!
While finishing visiting Nanjing Road you borrow an underpass which leads you to the sea front.
Opposite this part of the city, the district of Pudong is located. (This last fact integral part of Shanghai, in particular known for the airport of the same name Pudong Airport.)
The sight is impregnable on the lathes and especially the lathe of television of Shanghai. Since this point of view, the turns and the buildings seem joint and even with the narrow one. The air is fresh and the presence of a little wind due to the river is more than pleasant.
Many are the tourists who remain one good moment to photograph this panorama and the boats decorated which make to and from. Traverse the face of river towards the South, you will see the buildings with the European pace which content history with Shanghai.
Here you can buy meat skewers which are succulent, and made a pause by eating them with an ice bought by the small stores all length.
A giant and coloured countdown is present to mean the fact that Shanghai will accommodate the World Fair of 2010.
To continue the visit, two proposals: either you choose one of the “boats flies” which begin the neighborhoods of the river in English or Chinese for a hundred yuans, or you use the ferry.
The ferry is the bond between the center of Shanghai and the Pudong district. One can buy a ticket for three times nothing and it makes the crossing like the other boats to take you along to 500 meters of the tower of television.
At the exit of the ferry, one is surrounded by gigantic turns, surprisingly one realizes that they are spaced than than the sight of other bank let think…
Among the most remarkable turns, a gilded tower accommodates a giant screen, the tower of the bank of almost completed China and the tower of television of Shanghai.
Symbol and the most known image of the city are the pearl of the French East (东方明珠, Orient Pearl). This tower which appears among three larger of China, has the red shape of ball on its first level. The tower of Shanghai offers a splendid spectacle of light the evening. Because the multicoloured lamps are orchestrated and reveal dynamic and coloured reasons.
It is interesting to buy key doors that itinerant salesmen sell two yuans, it is also a way of supporting the people of modest means economically.
To go from the exit of the ferry to the tower, a bus of the city takes you along there for a yuan. Take it, the coach made a course around the largest towers of this district of offices.
Visit the tower for those which are not afraid the height, the speed of the elevator and the sight since the first stage is surprising. A stage not to be missed!
For those which are tired, you can travel by the subway which is right in front of the tower to seek a restaurant of center town, or close to the station when it is done late.
If not, I advise you to see the seaside, the evening the sight is splendid. The city and its buildings ensure the spectacle, boats enlightened, buildings with the various colors, river banks opposite amino by plays of lights.
A very atypical building in the shape of sphere is located behind you, it shelters a hotel and one sees drawn on his vault a map of the world with orange China for center. From where the word ZhongGuo 中国 in Chinese literally country of the medium.
For most courageous, Shanghai has a district of the night at some subway stations of Nanjing Road. One finds there a district similar to district 1912 of Nanjing, bars, restaurants and of course discotheques.
Like any big city, there is full with hotels but one does not know or are the least expensive and most practical. The team of China Nanjing advises you to seek a hotel in trimmings of the central station, of many chains of hotels are present there. One leaves oneself there for 10 euros per anybody. Quality and the reception being measurable with those of one two French stars. Hygiene, peace, comfort are with return.
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