Friday morning we played a game of cricket with Rohit and Rhea (Abhilash’s nephew and niece) We then headed to the Pearl Tower after lunch. It’s the TV Tower. It was the tallest tower in China until recently. It has a rotating restaurant as well. It’s got two big spheres that are pearl shaped and are pink in color.
Oriental Pearl Tower |
WFC |
At night, we had a barbecue dinner at home. Grilled chicken and Kebabs!
Saturday morning we went to the Shanghai Animal Park. The Park is divided into two. One which you can cover by foot, the other, where one can take the tourist bus. The walk by foot area is huge. You can walk by kangaroos, giant pandas, all sorts of birds and the big baboon.
The bus takes you around all kind of wild animals- tiger, white tiger, lions, etc.. All these animals never cease to amaze us though we have been to the zoos a zillion times when we were kids.
Panda at the Shanghai Animal Park |
Sunday after church, we had lunch at the Teppanyaki. A Japanese restaurant, where you are seated around an iron slab and the cook prepares you're food right in front of you.
Teppanyaki Lunch |
After lunch we headed to the Ocean Aquarium Park. It has the longest tunnel and is Asia’s biggest underwater world. You can see all kind of fish-big, small, colorful ones, weird looking ones, sharks and albino turtles… :) When purchasing a ticket you also get a complimentary pearl which you can pick up at the souvenir store.
(They break open the oyster right in front of you.)
Turtles at the Shanghai Aquarium |
We took the evening flight back to Beijing. The trip was so much fun….however old we grow there always is a child within all of us. And its fun to be that child once in a while.....
How I wish we had seen Shanghai & many more places before we left Beijing. We do miss Beijing in some way, esp the food. If we were there I would have definitely joined mandarin classes as you are doing.. Keep going Sandra. Its nice to read ur blog.
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