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| Shanghai Travel Guide |
| Known as the "Paris of the East", Shanghai is the largest and most prosperous metropolis in China. In addition, Shanghai is a famous historical and cultural city and a gate to the Yangtze River delta. Shanghai is well developed in communications in air, land and sea, which render tourists with fast, efficient and quality service. In the 1990s it again became an attractive tour destinations for travelers worldwide with many beautiful tourist attractions, such as the Bund, Yu Garden, Jade Buddha Temple, etc. Shanghai's gorgeous night scene is one of the main highlights that will linger in visitors' mind owing to its ornate feature after their Shanghai travel experience. As night descends, the entire city is lit up by dizzily colorful lights joined occasionally by the bright moon hanging in the sky. Shanghai has a delightful climate with four distinct seasons, tourists can comfortably visit it at any time of the year. |
| The Bund | Nanjing Road | | Where the great foreign commercial houses and banks built their imposing office buildings before 1930s, is considered one of the most recognizable architectural symbols of Shanghai. It represents the architectural buildings of finance and trade. The Bund is a good place for enjoying the bracing air and fine sunshine as well as seeing something of the many activities along the Huangpu River. | Considered as one of the World's Seven Great Roads in the 1930s and always mentioned in travel guides as a must see of China tour. It will be built into a leading world-famous commercial destination, just like Fifth Avenue in New York and the Champs Elyees in Paris. If you like shopping, do not miss it! |
| Yuyuan Garden | The Jade Buddha Temple |
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Built over 400 years ago and believed to be one of the few remaining old tourist destinations in Shanghai. Yuyuan Garden has quite a few scenic courtyards dotted with baroque rockery, pools and flora, all connected by corridors and passageways and cultural relics including century-old furniture, calligraphy and paintings, clay sculptures and brick carvings, some inscriptions and couplets. |
One of the most famous Buddhist temples to be found in Shanghai and one of Shanghai's top tourist destinations. The conspicuous attractions in the Jade Buddha Temple are white jade Buddha scattered with the whole halls, and the leading one of which is a 1.9-metre-high sitting Buddha encrusted with jewels and said to weighs 1,000kg. |
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The Oriental Pear TV Tower |
Shanghai Museum | | With an astonishing height of 468 meters, ranks as the world's third tallest TV tower, after the 553-meter CN Tower in Toronto and the 535-meter Moscow TV Tower. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower features 5 spheres and has become a symbolic architecture and a popular sightseeing for tourists in Shanghai. | A ¡°must do?for the ardent China-loving traveler. The world-renowned Shanghai Museum accommodates 120,000 precious relics, including Bronzes, pottery, paintings and calligraphies, porcelain, jadeware, stone carvings, Jiaguwen (inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones), imperial seals, etc. from the Old Stone Age to modern times. |
| The French Concession |
Songqingling Guju | | With an astonishing height of 468 meters, ranks as the world's third tallest TV tower, after the 553-meter CN Tower in Toronto and the 535-meter Moscow TV Tower. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower features 5 spheres and has become a symbolic architecture and a popular sightseeing for tourists in Shanghai. | Song Qingling (1893-1981), described as one of China s outstanding women of the 20th century, was wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China. Former Residence of Song Qingling (song qingling guju) was originally built in 1920 with the post and panel structure and the layout of the main building still keeps up the original style of Song Qingling before her death. |
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