After a week hanging out with Randy in Korea, Steve and I had another week of vacation so we decided to spend it in Malaysia! We flew into Shanghai with a 7 hour layover and decided to take advantage of it. We were happy to find out that Shanghai is a city in China (possibly the only?) where you don't need a visa to leave the airport, as long as your stay is less than 48 hours. Yay! We took the
Maglev train that got us into the city within 8 minutes (the world's fastest commercial train). From there, we got into a taxi and pointed out a cool looking building on a map. After a few minutes we see this massive building, which we find out later is the 2nd tallest building in the world, and has the tallest observation deck, so we had to check it out. In this incredibly tall building, called the
Shanghai World Financial Center, we went up 100 floors and saw an awesome view of Shanghai. Unfortunately it was a pretty overcast day, but still breathtaking.
We walked around a bit and passed by the building where the 2010 Shanghai World Expo was being held, but didn't go in. Then we stumbled upon the "Bund Sightseeing Tunnel." The name doesn't really say anything about what it actually is, but it sounded touristy so we gave it a shot. It's basically just a dark tunnel you ride through for about 10 minutes with cool looking lights. When we came out of the tunnel it was raining so we found a taxi back to the Maglev station. Then we were at the airport ready for our flight to Malaysia. Short but sweet!
After a week hanging out with Randy in Korea, Steve and I had another week of vacation so we decided to spend it in Malaysia! We flew into Shanghai with a 7 hour layover and decided to take advantage of it. We were happy to find out that Shanghai is a city in China (possibly the only?) where you don't need a visa to leave the airport, as long as your stay is less than 48 hours. Yay! We took the Maglev train that got us into the city within 8 minutes (the world's fastest commercial train). From there, we got into a taxi and pointed out a cool looking building on a map. After a few minutes we see this massive building, which we find out later is the 2nd tallest building in the world, and has the tallest observation deck, so we had to check it out. In this incredibly tall building, called the Shanghai World Financial Center, we went up 100 floors and saw an awesome view of Shanghai. Unfortunately it was a pretty overcast day, but still breathtaking.
We walked around a bit and passed by the building where the 2010 Shanghai World Expo was being held, but didn't go in. Then we stumbled upon the "Bund Sightseeing Tunnel." The name doesn't really say anything about what it actually is, but it sounded touristy so we gave it a shot. It's basically just a dark tunnel you ride through for about 10 minutes with cool looking lights. When we came out of the tunnel it was raining so we found a taxi back to the Maglev station. Then we were at the airport ready for our flight to Malaysia. Short but sweet!
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