This morning we left Hanoi and moved on to our final destination before we head back to the states. We got a chance to say goodbye to Jon, Sam, and Sari before we took off this morning. We owe them a huge thank you for housing us for a couple of days, dealing with our coming and going (we used Hanoi as a base to get to Ha Long and Sapa), and all of their help in recommendations. They were great hosts!

Our trip to Shanghai was smooth. However we did have some issues getting to our apartment. It took us some time to change money, take the maglev, change subway lines a few times, deal with stations we needed to change at being closed, and deal with PACKED stations and trains because of the Chinese holiday. All in all we got to the place just fine, it just took awhile and we had to deal with tons of people everywhere!

We took the maglev train into the city which was pretty awesome. It is a train that takes you from the airport to the city nonstop and reaches a speed of 431 km/hr.

Eli is out of town so we got an airbnb place near his apartment since we are familiar with the area. It is an old Shanghai lane house which is a pretty cool experience. We will take photos tomorrow.

Once we got settled in we headed out to the fabric market to pick up our orders from when we first arrived. Only Yvonne's shop was open so we need to make another trip for Dan tomorrow.

After the market we headed towards the People's Park area for some food. Here we found hundreds of thousands of people in the street celebrating the holiday. Between this and the number of people we saw in the subway today, we are both pretty sure that is the most people we have ever seen in a day. It was insane.

We ate at Yangs for some delicious fried dumplings. After dumplings we got boba(haven't had it in weeks!) and just sat on the sidewalk to people watch for awhile before heading back to the apartment for the night.

Back In Shanghai

Dan Golembeski