Asia 2017 - Day 9: Shanghai City Tour

Shanghai Museum

We started the day by visiting the Shanghai museum. The queue was only 15 minutes long to enter and I had a power hour walk around. I don't normally enjoy museums too much but the 4th floor had some interesting stuff such as furniture and clothing. There are over 120,00 items on show inside this museum which opened in 1996.

Furniture on the 4th floor.

Nanjing Road

After the museum we drove to near Nanjing Road where we were dropped off. Nanjing Road is the main shopping street in Shanghai. It is 5.5km long and runs from East to West. It attracts up to 1 million visitors per day and is one of the busiest shopping areas in the world.

The Bund

Towards the east end of nanjing Road is 'The Bund'. This is where you can see Shanghai's skyline view across the Huangpu river in the Pudong area. There was some low cloud but the mist added an extra effect to the photos.

Yuyang Garden 

Our final stop of the day was Yuyang Garden which was first built in the Ming dynasty in 1559. The garden is in 6 different sections, each separated by dragon walls which consists of grey tiles and the head at the end. On the edges of the garden area are tourist shopping marts. I really enjoyed walking through here as the architecture style is how I imaged traditional China to be but hidden in this modern city.

My video from this day can be found here:

Next Day: Leaving China to Seoul, South Korea visiting Gyeongbokgung Palace.