Friday, March 30, 2018

Day 43 - Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - Shanghai, China - Day 2

I am really liking these multi-day port stops. It gives a chance to tour at a more relaxed and varied pace. Today we were on a city tour with Yuni which duplicated several of the things we visited last year which was okay.

In no particular order, we visited People's Park (nice cherry blossoms), the Jade Buddha, the French Concession, Yu Garden (very picturesque, The Bund, the Pearl Hotel (featured in many movies), the fringe of the old city (currently being torn down and redeveloped as part of the city's plan to renew itself every 3 years), & lunch on our own near Sun Wonderland..

We left the tour near the end and walked a mile and a half back to the ship where a Lido dinner was in order to watch the commercial barge traffic on the Huangpu River and unwind from the day's activities. After dinner, the Main Stage 
entertainment was a Chinese Acrobat/Magic company. They were totally different from last night's off the ship program. Angela got called up to to participate in one of their routines.

The skyline in Shanghai at night has to be the prettiest we've seen all over the world. I took a bunch of GoPro Footage since it was such a clear night. We capped the evening off watching Karate Kid in the 10pm showing. As it was embarkation day for about 1,000 people, it's fun to see the new boardees with the deer in the headlights look. About 400 of us are in transit or continuing passengers. 

Stay tuned for our last day in Shanghai. Since we watched the movie until 12:30am and we have an 8am tour departure, it'll be a short night.


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