| Page Views: 1,714 Last Visit to Shanghai: July, 2003 | The Hottest Summer in Shanghai for 50 years! by iwys - last update: Jun 8, 2007 |
|  | The hottest weather in Shanghai for fifty years and that had to be the time when I chose to go there! It was 38 degrees Celsius in the afternoons and the Huangpu River was evaporating into the air over the city.
Like the mahjong players in the picture, I wore a vest and shorts and just enjoyed the heat! |
Shanghai is a mix of old, like the Taoist temples, quite old, like the pre-war waterfront buildings on the Bund, new, like the dirty 1960s apartment blocks which cover much of the city and very new, like the futuristic skycrapers sprouting up ever higher in Pudong to create a Chinese Manhattan in what was farmland 10 years ago.
Today, Shanghai has a population of 14 million, and it's growing fast. | | | Even luckier. An electric fan! |
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hopang Wed Jul 22, 2009 20:30 UTC
Wonderful Shanghai page complete with lovely photographs! Yuyuan Garden and Nanjing Road look interesting to explore. So is the night cruise on Huangpo River. Bring back fond memories of our trip to that city several years ago. ~ho & pang | DAO Wed Feb 11, 2009 00:16 UTC
Hi Ian, will be here Saturday for my Birthday. Will have country 100 by 28 Feb. Race you to 125? | Mariajoy Sat May 5, 2007 00:35 UTC
Another lovely intro photo! You've certainly been about a bit haven't you? Chuck us a nut then. ;-) | y_lyn Fri May 4, 2007 16:40 UTC
I loved shopping at Chenghuangmiao... a wide variety of goods being sold here. But I didn't get to see the taoist praying ceremonies when I was there. |
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