Day 2 - Shanghai, China

We got in a complete day of scouting in Shanghai. As we're going to spend the last three nights in China here, we needed to get 'the lay of the land'. We did quite a good job of it, even if getting going a bit late. As we fell into bed last night at nine, getting up at a reasonable time was easy. We didn't make it down to the breakfast until 8:00 and it took almost an hour getting through the varied eats. Then, we walked to the Shanghai Railway Station and wondered if that was where the bullet trains to Beijing started from. We found, after asking at our hotel, it's not. We did check the timings on the Internet and returned our close station to buy there.



After, we went out exploring on the remainder of our 24-hour transit pass. The subway system is the longest in the world, I think I've heard. We went to People's Square and then walked the Pedestrian walk to the Bund. It was pretty hot at mid-day but it let us figure out the city a little. We took a #2 train back past our initial point stopping near Jingan Temple area. There's a nice little park and we were still a little peckish even after the big breakfast. We stopped at a Subway Restaurant for lunch.

When getting back it was already 4:00 pm but we thought a nap time was in order. It was 2 hours long! After tea, we went back out this time getting on Subway 4 and circling around and getting off in Liang. Amazing, really.

To bed at 11:00 now.