Shanghai - Bustling metropolis in East Asia - China (PR)
The Shanghai New International Expo Center grows rapidly and is all the more popular, since the International Airport can be reached within 50 minutes by a new and innovative Transrapid train connection that was opened in 2003.
Endless shopping streets, the two most famous of which are the brightly illuminated Nanjing Lu and Huaihai Lu, offer an unlimited selection of shops, restaurants, theaters, museums and designer stores. The special economic zone, Pu Dong, boasts innumerable imposing 5-star hotels and futuristic sky-scrapers, e.g. the Grand Hyatt Shanghai in the Jin Mao Tower. Equally impressing: the famous Oriental Pearl Tower and the magnificent port boulevard at the Huang Pu river. Much of the charm of poetically pictorial China, however, lies in the narrow and winding streets of the old Chinese quarters, where many wonderful culinary treasures can be found and natives continue to eat their "Jiao Zi" as they have done for many centuries now. It is in this part of Shanghai that we come across the famous Yew Yuan, a wonderful example of Chinese horticultural art from the Ming time.True to its name in translation it definitely is a "Garden of Delight", at the edge of which innumerable exclusive teas are available for purchase in the famous Yew Yuan tea house.
