Pudong
On the Pudong side we craned our necks up towards the sky to see the ridiculously tall buildings sprouting from nearly everywhere. We went into the Shanghai World Financial Center, the second tallest building the world, but decided not to pay the admission fee to go to the top since it was another cloudy day in China. We then headed over to the oriental pearl tv tower, that funky looking building with two spheres in the above picture. From there, we grabbed a quick 40 minute river cruise, and from that I finally got to see what the bund looks like, well kind of since its under construction, but I got the picture. We then headed over a massive mall where there was just about everything going on. There were endless stores, restaurants, and even kickboxing in the middle of the mall. For dinner we decided to try a new cuisine – Macanese. I had wanted to take a day trip over to Macau from Hong Kong, but we didn’t end up having time. Macau is famous for their Portuguese-style egg custards, and I must say they were more delicious than any Chinese egg custard I’ve had before. We also tried a meat platter, noodle, curry, and a coffee-tea drink, but the egg custard by far was the highlight of the meal.
Maglev
To finish off our day, we took the subway over to the Maglev. This high speed train goes from the outer city to the airport in 8 minutes. For comparison, it took us about an hour to get into the city from the airport our first day. The train gets up to speeds of 301 km/hr or to about 188 miles per hour. As you can see my mom approves this form of transportation.
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