Weekend 1 sunday
Today was a bit of adventure. Being alone is killing. But I dint want to miss out any places. So decided to go out all by myself. I got ready by 11:30…had a havy brunch and left…
Got into that taxi and went some distance…then remembered that I had to exchange my euros for Yuan….i dint have money…I managed to make the taxi driver understand that he has to go back to the hotel. I came back and took s0me money and went.
My first destination was the Science and technology museum. Basically for children…not that it had nothing for us to learn…but just that we don’t want to learn so many things…
Animals, robots, insects, computers, geography, astronomy etc etc…u name it and it was there…so well done that any child would pick up very easily what things mean…
They had even designed a game for pattern recognition….it was amazing that they could make kids learn so well… no wonder they are progressing fast…
There was a school group on trip with kutty kids…so hell lot of noise…
It was so big…after sometime I started getting bugged because there was no one with me….finally I saw a toy joy ride into the human digestive system. The ride would take u thru a 3D explanation of how digestion happens. it was fun.
After this I came out and went into the fake market….dint buy anything special…mainly because I ahd heard abt the fake money that people are cheated with…I dint want any such thing to happen..
Got a subway ticket to lujiazhui….i got down at this station and thought better to go to the next station. So got into the next train….but at the next station I w could not go out of the station as my ticket wasvalid only till the previous station…the machine did not allow me thru…so I had to pay the difference amount at the counter and get thru….very simple..
It was raining and again the umbrella was irritating me…at the exit of ths attion I saw a tram.this said city tour. The ticket was 2 yuan one way…and was for 10 mins. So I took it…it basically took me to the end of the roan. Nanjing road is a big big version of our brigade road ….full of shopping malls…quite expensive but…
The malls dint interest me too much…so I again took a tram back to the place where I got in..
For other people’s benefit…there r 2 Mc Donanld’s and 2 KFCs on this road.
There is also a pizza hut.
From where I got down…I started walking towards the bund….it was difficult to find out as half of them dint know wat the bund was…
The bund is the harbour area where all trade via sea happens…supposed to be more colonial tan Chinese..
Finally got there. Took some snaps..the lady in the ounter said tat the boat ride was only after 7. so I walked back.i fond a tourist sightseeing tunnel that would take u from the bund to the tower…I thought that was good…I could take it…but then after walking ahlf distance I realized that it was too expensive for no reason…
So I walked back to the subway and took it to the tower..but again it was too cloudy so dint go to the tower top. Went into one tourist info center and asked howto go to the Jade Buddha temple and other things.
There was an aquarium nearby. But I was not interested…too bord roming alone in the rain..i was also freezing…so walked back to the subway station to check for exit number 4 where my hotel shuttle would come. Unfortunately…there dint seem to be an exit four. I called the hotel and they gave me a mall as a landmark. Went into that mal and sat for 1 hr. then came out onto the road and dint know which side of the road the shuttle would come…
Finally after waiting for half hour in the cold…the shuttle turned up on the other sideof the road…I ran to it and stopped it..finally was into a warm place.
Came home dead tired…totally bored and hungry…
Just now finished eating and cleaning…already getting bored of being alone…2 more weeks to go…hope it goes fast…
Few things I saw….
In the history museum that I went yesterday…the sign boards were funny…instead of saying way to go…or got this way or something like that…it said …to be continued…felt it funny…
These people have building of all shapes…u name a shape and there is a building…its amazing..that too so tall…
People here look very young….nice…
