Each city has its own iconic landmarks which have been lingering in people’s minds either due to their greatness or intriguing stories behind them. Shanghai is a fish-village-turned-metropolitan city dating back to China’s Spring and Autumn period (771 to 476 BC ). Shanghai architectural landmarks epitomize the colonial buildings set up in the early 1900s…
Plan your Shanghai night tour? Shanghai has a colourful night life, but if you have ever participated, you may feel it is probably one of the most splendid night hangout places in the world! It offers visitors a great variety of events and activities – extravagant dinners, exotic night snacks, breathtaking shows, romantic bars, lighted…
Champs-élysées to Paris and Oxford Street to London are what Nanjing Road to Shanghai. Nanjing Road, billed as “China’s First Commercial Street”, is the most well known shopping and leisure street in Shanghai. The east-west Nanjing Road is generally sectioned into Nanjing East Road and Nanjing West Road. Nanjing East Road is now a traffic-free…
Plan your Shanghai tour in February? Shanghai features the humid subtropical marine climate with distinct four seasons, usually humid summer and cold winter. February is still in the cold winter season with average 9℃ in the day and 2℃ at night. The feeling temperature in Shanghai is a bit lower due to the humid cold…
Quite Different from Beijing & Xian The navigation of Shanghai is exhausting mainly due to the random city layout of Shanghai. Shanghai is quite different from Beijing and Xian whose city layouts are based on the former imperial grid patterns as ancient capitals in successive dynasties. See the grid-like Xian city layout. Shanghai Layout But…
Plan your China tour? Are you thinking of the tipping policy in China? To tip or not to tip in China is a question which has confused many foreign visitors. Those against tipping in China argue that China has no tradition of tipping; those for tipping in China think that China is changing and tipping…
Plan your Shanghai tour? Cruising on Huangpu River is a must-do activity on your first trip to Shanghai. A great city tends to have a great river. Like Seine River in Paris, Shanghai has a river known as Huangpu River winding from south to north entering Yangtze River. While Paris is bisected into Right Bank…
Plan your Shanghai tour? If you want to feel and have a glimpse of a traditional China old town after seeing too much glamor of the metropolitan Shanghai, Qibao Ancient Town (七宝古镇), a tiny water town would be a nice alternative if you cannot make it to other water towns like Zhujiajiao Water Town, Zhouzhuang Water Town and Tongli…