PHOTO GALLERY: Yuyuan Garden and Temple Area- Shanghai Shanghai, China is an ultra-modern city, full of skyscrapers, unique modern architecture, huge apartment blocks, and a variety of neighborhoods. There’s a lot of history is this city, too, and some of it remains visible in older districts like Puxi promenade with its colonial British granite buildings, …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my monthly newsletter. Thanks! —–>> Main street in one of Shanghai’s few remaining old neighborhoods SHANGHAI PHOTO GALLERY: SHANGHAI’S OLD NEIGHBORHOODS China’s modern cities are massive urban centers packed with towering cement apartment buildings and modern shopping centers. China’s traditional neighborhoods, filled …
PHOTO GALLERY: MODERN SHANGHAI ARCHITECTURE Once known as the ‘Great Athens of China,’ Shanghai became a huge international hub of trade, finance, and gangster activities in the 1930s. Today Shanghai is still China’s most international city, packed with an amazing array of eye-popping futuristic architecture, the likes of which are seen nowhere in the …
Shanghai to Hong Kong by Overnight Train After living 3 months in Shanghai I had to leave the country to get a new visa. The closest and cheapest destination is Hong Kong. Even so, it’s not really close: a 2-hour flight or a 21-hour train trip. That’s much further than I have to travel for visa …
CULTURAL INSIGHTS: DISPELLING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CHINA For many years I’d been eager to travel through China. Simultaneously, I’d been equally hesitant to go because of my perceptions of China: packed with super-noisy, super-messy, phlegm-spitting Chinese citizens; shady aggressive business tactics; and great difficulty getting around. Those were images I’d developed both from other travelers’ stories …
TRAVEL STORY: ACQUIRING A SHOU MA On my first Sunday morning in Shanghai, China, I got up early and excitedly went out to explore the interesting streets of Old Town, spread out below our apartment tower. I had already wandered along the nearest streets, locating various tasty food shops, fruit stands, and other useful shops …
CULTURAL INSIGHTS: CURIOSITIES OF SHANGHAI Even though I’d been traveling and living in Asia for nearly 17 years, when I moved to Shanghai I STILL came across some curiosities: funny, strange or unusual sights and experiences that I’ve seen nowhere else! Such as: >Dogs wearing SHOES! Yep, little doggie shoes on each paw, usually sneaker …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to free monthly newsletters —–>> 10 FREE THINGS TO DO IN SHANGHAI, CHINA China is in a mad race to catch up with the western world in terms of economic prosperity and modern lifestyle. Despite still officially being a Communist nation, the Chinese …
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Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to RSS —–>> LIFE IN SHANGHAI CHINA I arrived in Shanghai on March 3rd, 2008, in the midst of winter. I arrived with some sort of respiratory virus that made me quite tired, so I didn’t get out to explore much. But I did manage to wander …
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
