Marvellous Shanghai
 |
|
Local residents doing their morning
exercises on the banks of Huangpu River |
Shanghai, a city born from the sea has now become one of the best
tourist attractions in China. With this year's Expo 2010 there is a
drastic increase in tourist arrivals to Shanghai from different parts of
the world and from China.
Shanghai is expecting eight million tourist arrivals this year. With
the increase in tourist arrivals to the city Shanghai authorities are
planning to build a Disneyland in Shanghai.
Not only for leisure tourism Shanghai is also famous among Meeting
Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) travellers. The Shanghai
city is equipped with the latest exhibition and conference facilities.
At present most of the world renowned hotel chains have established
their presence in this happening city and most of the Airlines have
daily flights to Shanghai due to the tourism boom in the city.
Tourists who come to Shanghai have many places to visit and they
cannot complete the visit within a few days.
The Bund is one of the places any traveller to Shanghai must visit.
The Bund was once described as the captivating eyes of Shanghai or a
beautiful corridor in the former foreign settlement.
Through more than a century's vicissitudes, the Bund has remained
undisputedly the most salient landmark of Shanghai.
The Bund or the Huangpu Beach generally refers to the area that
stretches along the Huangpu river from Garden Bridge, where the Suzhou
Creek converges with the Huangpu River to Xinkaihe.
Into the 20th century, Western powers built many fine buildings
featuring their national styles to showcase their culture and
achievements.
The building complex on the Bund, crowned as the 'Great Exhibition of
the Buildings of All Nations', stands stately along the Huangpu River.
 |
|
A visitor
at the Bund |
Together with the wide expanse of green on the Bund, these buildings
constitute a hue of a cosmopolitan city that will never fade.
Along with the development of Pudong (the east side of the Huangpu
river), the beachland opposite the Bund was turned into Lujiazui Finance
and Trade Zone in 1990.
Almost all the tallest buildings in Shanghai are located in this
area. Global avant-garde skyscrapers have sprung up one after another,
changing the city's skyline each passing day.
Among nearly 100 skyscrapers here, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower,
Jinmao Tower and Shanghai world financial centre are the tallest
buildings in the Chinese mainland.
All these skyscrapers can be viewed nicely when one walks along the
banks of the Huangpu river. Tourists love to walk on the riverside
avenues along the Huangpu river while watching river cruises and boats
passing them. They also do not forget to capture pictures of them seen
in the Huangpu river behind them to take home sweet memories of
Shanghai.
Tourists who come to Shanghai love to go on a river cruise on the
Huangpu river in the night. All the buildings located near the river
banks are decorated with colourful bulbs and they resemble vesak pandols.
It brings one a feeling that one is in the midst of a big night
carnival. (AS)
To be continued
|
