we spent the entire morning of our second day in Shanghai searching for the Long Distance Bus Station. After roaming the streets endlessly, we finialy managed to find it, only to discover that it was actually the same bus station at which we arrived in Shanghai.
Anyhow, we then went to check out the Old Town area. It has many pagoda style houses, and shit loads of tourists (surprizingly mostly chinese)!
It was pretty crowded, so we decided to visit a garden called Yu-Yuan.
Wiki says:
The garden was reportedly first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father's old age. Over the years, the gardens fell into disrepair until about 1760 when bought by merchants, then suffered extensive damage in the 19th century. In 1842, during the Opium Wars, the British army occupied the Town God Temple for five days. During the Taiping Rebellion the gardens were occupied by imperial troops, and damaged again by the Japanese in 1942. They were repaired by the Shanghai government from 1956-1961, opened to the public in 1961, and declared a national monument in 1982.
We found it to be a truely beautiful garden with lovely ponds and small wooden houses:
And of course - some chinglish:
Toward sunset, we returned to the bund to take some pictures of the skyscrapers across the river with good lighting:
Back at the guesthouse, we hooked up with two funny Israeli guys (Yoav and Nadav) and a British girl (Daniel, who will start her Neuroscience PhD in Oct... coincidence?! I think NOT! ). After a couple of beers and some pool, Shay, Yoav and Danidel decided to check out the local pub scene in Shanghai. They found a cool jazz club that played Yoav's favourite song - The MOJO hand!
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