Welcome to Shanghai one of the biggest cities in the world it is also the place
where my parents are from and where most of my relatives remain over the years I
have visited Shanghai a number of times and because of my connection with the
city I have a particular affection for it this is where we began a recent
three-week journey around China on the East Coast in the megacity of Shanghai
okay continue booking traveller one is me review in book your trip
okay ready to complete the booking sure let's do it. So slow
please don't time out. Trip is booked! Oooh! China!
Alex and I are going to go to the Visa Center today and hopefully everything
goes smoothly and we get our visas we've printed out this whole wad of documents
so I just got back from the Visa Center just picked up my visa so it went pretty
smoothly for us we were pretty prepared we had all our documents so we didn't
really have to go back again so basically it's this I'm just covering my
information. yay!
welcome to Shanghai we are in our hostel right now and it is our first full day
in Shanghai yesterday we had a really long travel day 12 hours on the plane
and then one hour on the Metro to get to the hostel and there figuring like
withdrawing cash all that stuff but we're gonna go find some breakfast
so we're heading to lunch right now going to a place my mom recommended because my
parents grew up here and she really likes the
this like dumpling bun that they have so we're gonna go there
we're going to go to the photography department store just need to get tickets
this one only three dollars okay so we're gonna use this
I'm gonna pay that payment successful
so we're going to the I guess the photography like mall because alex is getting a new lens
it is much cheaper to get it here than in North America so we gonna go do that
so we're in an area in the French Concession part that is an example of
preserved Shikumen architecture in Shanghai it's a combination of Chinese
and Western architecture started at 1860s but now they've got like a bunch
of shops and restaurants as well
we got these like white rabbit popsicles just like the classic white rabbit
candy
good morning it's another beautiful sunny day in Shanghai with blue skies and
clouds yeah so last night we had dinner with my
relatives so I didn't really film anything but today we have the day all
to ourselves we're gonna go find some breakfast some
classic Shanghai breakfast food. [red bean buns]
[Anything else? No. 11 Yuan.]
oh I forgot the soy milk let me just do that it's okay you don't want it?
Chinese fried donuts
we're just getting some coffee in this
very fancy mall this coffee is from a cafe called seesaw
a lot of it is sourced from Yunan province which is pretty cool
Purely by chance we have come up to the top of this mall and we can see the temple that were about to
visit
so just started to get a little bit stormy and windy
good thing we're heading to a museum we're gonna check out the Jewish
Shanghai Jewish refugee museum I don't think it's very big but it's a it's
about the refugees that came here to Shanghai during and around the Second
World Wartime.
Where you from? England. UK! yes yes
all right so we're heading back out towards the bund gonna go check out the
nightlights, we're gonna take the ferry over to the other side of the Huangpu
River and check out these skyscrapers
so we're currently at the Bund this is probably the most popular tourist spot
here in Shanghai, but you can see
the beautiful this is Pudong area which is the new buildings
and then this side behind me are the older buildings
that are more european-style because of the Europeans that came here and built it
We're here again! We're gonna get some buns to go before we get the next thing
So we're actually leaving Shanghai today but we can't leave without having some
pork soup dumplings so that's what we're gonna get before we head on to the
train to Guangzhou today ready nom nom nom nom nom
yeah just about packed and ready to go we're gonna head to the train station
just trying to pack everything into this one backpack here we'll be coming back
to Shanghai at the very end just just before we go back to Vancouver. We're headed off
to Guangzhou now we're going to the Shanghai Hongqiao train station.
what's the name of the Shanghai Airport? Pudong. Just that PVG? yeah Pudong International airport
Oh Shanghainese is Pudong and it's pretty close Mandarin
is Pudong it's just the tone thats different. Wait, what? ok Mandarin is Pudong and
Shanghainese is Pudong
Hello cat? Cat?