She was 50+ and travelling alone and had more stories to tell that than we would have liked to hear. We met some very interesting people and noteworthy amongst those is a lady called Dolly. We also learnt how much everyone there loathes the Dragon Lady. Great wall badaling section, the Chinese Silk museum and the Bird's Nest 2008 Olympics stadium. We visited the Tian'anmen square, Forbidden City, Chinese medical centre, Temple of Heaven, Pearl free market, Summer palace, Ming tombs, Jade carving factory Yes, I am referring to the -13degree Celsius!!! But it was an experience to remember forever. Our very helpful guides filled us in with a lot more than we could take, mainly because while they were proudly narrating their history, our present was making our future look bleak.
While on one hand it oozed tradition, culture and heritage, on the other, the modern skyscrapers kept bringing their economic strength and commercial success to the fore. The next flight was from Shanghai to Beijing. We spent a fortune to get there by taxi and ate like never before. And if I don't mention the hogging we did at an Indian Restaurant called Namaste, it'd be unfair. The only tourist spot we went to was Tiger Hill. Duh! However, we wandered around happily here. Kids would nudge their parents to take a look at us. We experienced what it feels like to be a foreigner with every single living being staring at us like we were aliens. Travelling by bus from anywhere-to-anywhere costs only 2 Yuans. Took us 30 minutes to reach there from Shanghai Raliway Station.
We chose to travel by train and it went as fast as 282km/hr. More than the city, we enjoyed visiting Suzhou. Yu garden was quite interesting though and of course, the X'ing Guan photography mall, a 7-storey mall dedicated to cameras and camera accessories. In Pudong, we went to the Oriental Pearl tv towerĪnd the Jin Mao tower. I know, all you can hear is, blah blah, mundane stuff, blah blah. We saw all the standard tourist spots like the Bund, Shanghai art museum, People's (Renmin) square, Jing'An temple, Jade Buddha temple, Yu garden and went on the mind-numbingly boring Huangpu river cruise. THAT's what it took for us to get one small tick against one wonder of the world!!!
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