Shanghai - Old and New

Old and New Shanghai

During the Chinese Labor holiday, I spent a couple of days in Shanghai with friends. During this trip I saw lots old things and lots of new things standing side by side.

Shanghai has a river running down the middle of it, the Huangpu River. Along the west side of the river is a famous street called the Bund.

Qiufeng and Xiaolong on the Bund, Shanghai. Pearl Tower in the background.

On the west side of the river is Pu Xi, the old city. In Pu Xi, you see a lot of old city with the new city rising in the background.

On the west side of the river is Pu Dong, the new side of the city. In 1990, PuDong was just boggy farmland providing vegetables to Shanghai markets. Now it is a growing city of sky scrapers. There are still a lot of old buildings in the city. And the background for these old buildings is the sky scrapers of the new city.

Looking down an old street in Pu Xi you can see Pearl Tower across the river in Pu Dong.

Everywhere you look in Shanghai you see old and new mixed together.

We went to the Nanjing Walking Street which is the main shopping area of Shanghai city center.

It was packed with people day and night. Lots of the neon China is famous for.

Domestic life in Shanghai. Drying laundry in Shanghai.

There is a trendy new shopping and dining area in Pu Xi called Xin Tian Di which means "new sky and earth".

This is a museum in Xin Tian Di. Looks very cool at night.

We even saw a super skinny Spider Man in Xin Tian Di.

We went to the Kia X-Games Asia 2007. It included BMX, Skate boarding, In-line skating, rock climbing, motor cross, a concert and other events.

Ray has scoped out all the Dairy Queens in every city he has every been to.

He got me to try a Green Tea and Chocolate Blizzard. There are some things about China I may never get used to. Green Tea ice cream is just wierd.

In Shanghai, you will see a traditional Chinese Tea House selling the same green tea that has been drank in China for centuries. And, just across the street, you might see Dairy Queen selling Green Tea ice cream. The old and the new are everywhere around you in Shanghai.