Shanghai Exposed

This week I've been in Shanghai.  On Monday when I arrived I caught the Maglev train from the airport.  It does 300km per hour and was very smooth and quiet.  Shanghai is a big city built around a very wide river.  Along the Bund there are many old stone buildings built in the late 1800's by European banks and companies.  Across the river the finance district is made up of ultra-modern skyscrapers.

While here I had some time to go and visit the Shanghai World Expo.  It brought back memories of attending Expo '88 in Brisbane.  The Expo site here is huge, covering two sides of the river, and today I walked a lot of it.  To get across the river you can catch a ferry, a subway train or take a bus through a tunnel.  I went into a few pavillions but the queues were just way too long for most of them.  I enjoyed seeing the different buildings but was feeling quite fatigued by the end and the thought of queuing for an hour or more was not at all appealing.