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Shanghai is a teeming metropolis of 11 million, bustling with energy, towering skyscrapers, art deco buildings, honking traffic, and shopping crowds. Once here, visitors will find Eastern ways abound: Tai Chi along the Bund, the serenity of exquisite ponds and gardens, and an endless flotilla of sampans edging along the Huangpu River. Explore Shanghai old and new: the busy bazaars and alleyways of the Old Town, Yu Garden, Wuxingting Tea House, Long Hua Temple and more.
The Bund – During the remarkable building boom of the early 1900s, some of the world's wealthiest companies and financial institutions spared no expense to build the most fashionable structures of each era: the early 1900s favored the favored Beaux Arts style, the 1920s followed with Art Deco, and the tighter times of the 1930s produced the cleaner, more austere Streamline Modern look. The now-restored buildings and the riverside location – with views across to Pudong jumping ahead to 21st century, make this neighborhood a popular visitor attraction.
Shanghai Museum - Once the site of a thoroughbred racecourse, the four-level museum is home to some 120,000 pieces, chronicling 5,000 years of China's history. Despite its size only about 3% of the pieces are on display at any given time. Calligraphy, painting, ceramics and bronze ware are museum highlights.
Pudong - Generations ago, a "chamber of commerce" aerial view of Shanghai would depict the Bund; today, the city is known by the skyline of Pudong, where the 21st century city of Shanghai rises. It's here where the giant 1,500-ft Oriental Pearl TV Tower soars above the Shanghai History Museum below. Yet even that tower is edged out by the 101 floors of the 1,614-foot Shanghai World Financial Center scheduled for completion in 2007. The building will become the world's second-tallest office building, following Taipei's "Taipei 101".
French Concession - West of the Bund is the neighborhood called the "French Concession." In the mid-1800s, shortly after Shanghai was opened to trade, The British, French and U.S. were granted autonomous "zones." Into those zones flowed expatriates of the respective countries: businessmen, doctors, wives and families, grocers, etc. Charming reminders of the French zone remain; streets lined with French colonial-era architecture, restaurants, cafes, apartments, hotels, art galleries, designer boutiques and quiet parks make the region a popular tourist draw.
Nanjing Lu - This is Shanghai's "Fifth Avenue." Major department stores, chic boutiques and plenty of restaurants to feed the hungry shopper are found along its length. The eastern leg of the street, between the Bund and the People's Park, is busiest.
People's Park & Square - Look carefully at a map of the park and you can almost trace the racecourse the park replaces. Today, the park is flanked by the excellent Shanghai Museum and the People's Square, site of numerous rallies and demonstrations, the Great World Entertainment Center (a popular fairground), the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, the Shanghai Grand Theater and Fish and Flower Market.
Yu Gardens & Bazaa - Old Shanghai is best appreciated by a visit here. It offers a step back in time – but not too far back. By China's standards, Shanghai is not an old city; the charming Huxinting Teahouse, built on stilts amid a garden lake, dates only to 1784. Some structures date to the Ming Dynasty but most of the buildings here are much newer. Yet it's absolutely appealing! The street bazaar, the curious dragon walls, the rockery, the dumpling restaurants lining the lake, the street performers, the Chinese Opera stage – all give it a festive atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.
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