First off, cities in China are big. Really big! As in lots of people and lots of skyscrapers! We had a glimpse of Shanghai at night as we zoomed through the streets to our hotel (our taxi driver had 3 electronic devices on the go and we had an interactive tv in the taxi). We were staying in the Bund area where so many of the really tall skyscrapers are, and at night they are all lit up and the skyline is amazing! It was really cool. In the morning we navigated our way around the area and were in awe of the huge structures. Check out a you tube video of the top ten skyscrapers and you'll see two in the top ten in Shanghai. Also, another was being built that dwarfed the biggest one! We found a food market to try out our first meal in China. Seeing that everything was in Chinese and nobody spoke in English, it was a bit of a guessing game as to what we were eating. Mostly, everything we had tasted was fishy even though we thought we were in a noodle shop. Finally, we ended our day with a high speed train to Beijing! It was pretty impressive to be travelling so fast through the countryside (although nothing really seemed to be "country, as in rural" as one city just morphed into another). The most interesting part was a 5-10 km section where there must have been 100 skyscrapers all at the same stage of being built, all with cranes hovering over them, just one after another. Our hosts that we are staying with here in Beijing tell us that is normal to see here in China, as it might be a new city being "built"! Now we have a few weeks to settle in and discover Beijing, the capital city of China (with over 20 million people).
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