if i’m not wrong, the oriental pearl tv tower isnt the highest in shanghai, but the jingmao tower is. but either way, we went up jingmao tower so that we could see the oriental pearl, as the jingmao tower isnt as architecturally interesting as the other.
near the tower is another buliding that looks quite cool:
ok and now i’m stealing pictures again, but here’s a sample of the view from the tower:
(well, the above is outside the hilton hotel)
shanghai is quite pretty at night.. and look at how many high rise buildings there are around the tower!
the top of the cool building above:
and these are my pics again:
the hotel atrium from atop the tower – the hyatt hotel is in the building itself, and it starts from the 38th storey or something like that:
here’s the accompanying text:
can you spot the spelling mistake on this bag?:
ooh we were at the french concession – the gentrified part of shanghai where there’re quite a few european looking buildings – and we saw this:
there’s coffee bean and tea leaf in shanghai too! i was very happy to be there:
close up of my black forest:
shanghai’s hosting the expo next year, although i think they’re cutting it a bit tight with regard to the construction:
dont you think the mascot is rather ugly? yet there were so many peddlers trying to sell the stuffed toy version of it..
here’s the shanghai national museum. the building is meant to represent heaven (the circular part) and earth (the square part)
the flag-lined boulevard – some of the key municipal buildings are in this area:
the shanghai national theatre – it’s very interesting!
here’s the government building whose name i’ve forgotten. but there were 2 guards standing on duty outside:
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