Shanghai 2006

07.04.06

Shanghai is a developing rapidly town and the official inhabitant figures are 20 million people. But it was us told that 30. million were denser on reality. We started with driving in Bank of China in order to change money, and there pushed we the first time on China's very stiff system, that was as a matter of fact not just equal. But after some talk up and down we then managed to handle that problem. We had wished to see a computer supermarket. That we saw was very large. There were 4 storeys only with EDB. The prices resembled them we see at home, and here remained to be seen oneself,  that those rumours we had heard of that one didn't buy anything without bargaining about the price were true. There were now not made the large purchases. Possibly. purchases had to be transported round on the trip. Then it was time to be accommodated at the hotel, Shanghai Harbour Hotel, a large beautiful hotel. We used a couple of hours for that slack a little of on top of the trip and the evening-food we ate at restaurant, with chopstick that were the eating utensils for the next 14 days

08.04.06

We woke up to a beautiful day and after the breakfast we left the hotel at 8.30 and hit the town and came to a beautiful old Chinese garden. After a walk on the edge of the old part of a town we came into the garden, there like all other gardens built in Chinese style with water, lots of koikarps, paths and bridges in granite, incredibly beautiful and with many tourists. Like all places with lots of hawkers, and stalls. After lunch we drive to Shanghai's 468 meters tall TV tower. We were on a platform in 263 m height with a fantastic view. The rest of the afternoon was used on different markets. We were at pearl-market and saw how one made nature-pearls. There was also found a small backyard's copy market with Gucci bags, Rolex clocks, and what one otherwise could imagine. The afternoon ended on a large market, where one simply could buy everything. One could become free not at all in order to buy and again there was that with bargaining about the price. I bought a small pocket three legs to the camera. The start-price was 85 yuans, the trade was ended at 20 yuans, it turned out to be a bad trade, because another place there was bought an almost such for 15 yuans. After the evening-food we were at an evening sail on Yangtze river. That had equal turned dark, thus electric signs and various big screens came entirely to their dish. We ended the day with an evening trip on The Bund, an area along the river from where we true could see all the light on the buildings opposite.

Videoclip from the TV tower

09.04.06

It had rained and thundered at night, thus it was a little dark weather we stood up to. We drove north west on to a smaller town called Suzhou, where it had to be true beautiful. We only and after that visited a Chinese garden the traditional things, and after that saw we it remainingly of the old town wall, of which there only is a lesser piece back, but however also a town gate, arranged in such a way that when first the enemy came through the first gate were they caught in a court with yet a gate, and there were therefore more easily to neutralize. After lunch we drove to a silk spinning mill and saw there how one extracts silk right from the individual coupon over spin to the loom, in order at last being led into the factory's salesroom, with a lot of beautiful products.