Birthday Wording For Three

Suzhou - Shanghai

Before joining Shanghai for our last day we visited Suzhou, a charming city north of Shanghai famous for its canals and parks. We visited the Garden to Linger in , where we enjoyed a beautiful pond and the rocks in small gardens.

Garden to Linger in

Time has unfortunately not been very forgiving and having suffered a heavy downpour, we still managed to visit the largest and most impressive park of Suzhou, the Humble Administrator's Garden . Dating from the early 15th century, a maze of ponds, bridges, and pavilions, all surrounded by forests of bamboo and lotus flowers.

channels Suzhou The Humble Administrator's Garden

We then took the TGV to reach Chinese Shanghai. Shanghai est une vibrante mégapole chinoise de plus de 15 millions d'habitants qui fourmille d'activité. C'est le centre financier et des affaires en Chine, une ville moderne hérissée de gratte-ciels qui rappelle un peu Hong Kong. Nous avons passé moins de 24 heures à Shanghai, difficile donc de se faire une idée mais la ville nous a tout de même parus très agréable à vivre, bien qu'elle manque de véritable attrait touristique.

Nanjing Road, la principale rue piétonne de Shanghai


Le Bund, le long de la rivière qui traverse Shanghai


Pudong, le quartier des affaires, de l'autre side of the riverfront

The last day a little sad in Shanghai has unfortunately marked the end of our journey itself. We loved China, is probably the country where we arrived with more prejudices, mostly negative because of the often unfair media coverage that is made in Western countries, and yet have found the Chinese friendly , warm, friendly, polite, and above all incredibly friendly, especially young students. He had never been so easy to make friends while traveling, whether on trains, hostels youth, or even on the street, and we leave with many email addresses and contacts. Young Chinese are very open, they have the same concerns that young Western and seem mostly to be quite aware of the limitations of their regime and the challenges China faces, which made us very optimistic about the The political future of the country. We in any case much regretted not being able to spend more time, we would have done better to finally come directly from Cambodia to China, it would have avoided this horrible experience in Vietnam. Too bad this is only a postponement, we will definitely be back spend more time in China! We both spent our last few minutes here in the Maglev train Magnetic levitation, which connects Shanghai and its Pudong airport in less than 8 minutes, reaching speeds of hair-raising 430 km / h, a good way to leave this town edge of modernity!