Shanghai travelogue 1

  I went to China while summer vacation. I have wanted to travel abroad since a long time ago. It was my first overseas trip and everything made me wonder. This being my first trip overseas, I'm all in a flurry, what with packing and everything. My heart throbbed with excitement at the thought of traveling abroad. I went to Shanghai. Shanghai is the second largest city in China. I stayed Shanghai for a month. In fact, I went Shanghai to study Chinese. So I lived in Donghua University dormitory and studied in International Cultural Exchange School. In the morning, I studied Chinese in class. In the afternoon, I went sightseeing here and there in Shanghai with my group. For a month, I went to many places. I went to Shanghai museum and Nanjinglu, Pudong, Oriental Pearl Tower, The Bund, Cifu, Yuyuan, Century park, IKEA, Byeongeom, EXPO, The People´s Plaza, Taikanglu, Shanghai circus, Zhouzhuang Town and so on.

Shanghai museum is very big. The museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art. So I was not enough to see everything.

Nanjing road is similar to Korea’s Myeong-dong. There is one of the world's busiest shopping streets. So there were many interesting spectacle.

Pudong is a district of Shanghai. Pudong is home to the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and a skyline that includes the symbolic Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Building.

 

The Oriental Pearl Tower belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers. The Tower attracts over three million visitors each year. So I was waiting in line to get in an elevator. I became tired. But the view from there was magnificent. The bund and Pudong are on opposite sides of Huangpu River.

The Bund is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. The Bund houses 52 buildings of various architectural styles. I went many places besides above-mentioned place. So I will write continuously next journal.