If you are on a business trip to Shanghai you should visit the Bund . This is a place where the Huang Po river divides the city into pudong and Puxi districts . All the famous landmarks of shanghai like the oriental pearl tower , shanghai financial centre buildings (many of them of the top 10 highest buildings in the world ) are here . At nighttime its a beautiful view to see all the lighted buildings(images in facebook) on one side of the river which have a modern architecture and the colonial architecture buildings on the other side. You can either cross the river in a ferry for 2 rmb that is around 16 rupees or gofor a river cruise for 50 Rmb. never take a walk under the river which costs 60 rmb but u see only lights as water is murky. You can see the shanghai bull (remember shanghai index is one of major asian share market indices) . Have cold protective clothes here as the windchill effect will take temperature near zero in winter time . If you go in evening time you can cross the river and ride up one of the towers to see shanghai from high up .
Nanjing road is just next to the bund and easily accessible by metro station . This place has got a pedestrian only area where you can just walk and see on either side the modern china with all the shopping brands of the world . Like someone told about another city you can buy everything except mom and dad , in shanghai everything is available at this 6 km stretch from east nanjing to west nanjing . From a chinese curio to designer watch everything is available . Now two things to avoid here are the infamous tourist traps --- dont go with a friendly chinese girl at nanjing road .Check out tourist traps in virtual tourist or lonelyplanet for details .And secondly try to avoid buying fake watches from nanjing road ...Except for branded shops bargaining is the norm so if you enjoy bargaining shanghai is your place .Do you need chinese for bargaining ...No .. The answer is a calculator ...Do you need to buy a calculator and take with you ? No need this is not a maths exam .. the shopkeeper will bring one and u start bargaining the shanghai way ...high tech ...And remember there is "last last last price " which may still be not the last price ..Its interesting and funny ..at least for me .
If you want to buy bargain price chinese curios the place is the market below the metro station at science and technology museum . This is also the place where people go to buy the fakes so also called the fake market . The chinese curios are not fakes especially the chopsticks and chinese fans ( have you ever heard of a branded chopstick or a chinese fan ?? ) . Here a presentation quality chopstick set which costs 600 rupees can be had for 150 rupees . Chinese fans which cost 400 rupees can be had for 100 rupees .
Now this place has more than 200 shops many of them selling fakes of many of the great brands ..Out of curiosity i saw many but didnt buy any . This place is great for buying chinese curios but also just to see the chinese ingenuity and bargaining skills . See it to believe it .,....
One girl is calling me " Sir no charge for looking ... You know Shah Rukh ? Namaste " and remember this is Shanghai where many people dont know english and secondly she has rightly concluded with 100 percent accuracy that i was from india without me uttering a word ..."
Nanjing road is just next to the bund and easily accessible by metro station . This place has got a pedestrian only area where you can just walk and see on either side the modern china with all the shopping brands of the world . Like someone told about another city you can buy everything except mom and dad , in shanghai everything is available at this 6 km stretch from east nanjing to west nanjing . From a chinese curio to designer watch everything is available . Now two things to avoid here are the infamous tourist traps --- dont go with a friendly chinese girl at nanjing road .Check out tourist traps in virtual tourist or lonelyplanet for details .And secondly try to avoid buying fake watches from nanjing road ...Except for branded shops bargaining is the norm so if you enjoy bargaining shanghai is your place .Do you need chinese for bargaining ...No .. The answer is a calculator ...Do you need to buy a calculator and take with you ? No need this is not a maths exam .. the shopkeeper will bring one and u start bargaining the shanghai way ...high tech ...And remember there is "last last last price " which may still be not the last price ..Its interesting and funny ..at least for me .
If you want to buy bargain price chinese curios the place is the market below the metro station at science and technology museum . This is also the place where people go to buy the fakes so also called the fake market . The chinese curios are not fakes especially the chopsticks and chinese fans ( have you ever heard of a branded chopstick or a chinese fan ?? ) . Here a presentation quality chopstick set which costs 600 rupees can be had for 150 rupees . Chinese fans which cost 400 rupees can be had for 100 rupees .
Now this place has more than 200 shops many of them selling fakes of many of the great brands ..Out of curiosity i saw many but didnt buy any . This place is great for buying chinese curios but also just to see the chinese ingenuity and bargaining skills . See it to believe it .,....
One girl is calling me " Sir no charge for looking ... You know Shah Rukh ? Namaste " and remember this is Shanghai where many people dont know english and secondly she has rightly concluded with 100 percent accuracy that i was from india without me uttering a word ..."
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