Monday, June 26, 2006

Shanghai Nights


Shanghai is steamy hot and muggy right now. The locals tell me it gets hotter in a month. Still, the city is clean, bustling with people and full of growth. The main streets are broad and lined with neatly trimmed bushes, trees and colorful beds of flowers. The night skyline is probably the most beautiful and brightly lit that I have ever seen any city worldwide. There are gorgeous, extremely tall glass and steel structures demonstrating a mixture of world architectural influences. Some look like towering glass pagodas (the Hyatt) while others (as in the picture) are reminiscent of Paris (le Tour D'Eiffel). The people here are very nice and, so far, appear to speak enough english for me to get by.

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