Everything is Big in Shanghai!In my view.

By Alvin & Wife on August 13, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s been awhile since our last journey story. Our Journey started from Manila. We flew in last June 2017 and the purpose is for transited.

การเดินทางไปประเทศจีนครั้งนี้ เป้าหมายของเราคือ แวะเปลี่ยนเครื่องเพื่อไปแถบอเมริกาเหนือ โดยเราทั้งสองได้วีซ่าท่องเที่ยวประเทศจีนแบบครั้งเดียว ดังนั้น ขากลับ ณ ตอนที่เราแวะเปลี่ยนเครื่องที่จีน เราผ่าน ตม โดยเข้าแถวพิเศษเรียกว่า Transit Visa ง่าย ๆ แค่โชว์ตั๋วขาออก (ภายใน 5 วัน) ก็ไม่ต้องเสียเงินค่าวีซ่าอีกรอบ กรณีนี้ คือ กรณีที่เราบินสายการบินที่ไม่ได้เป็นพันธมิตร หรือไม่ได้เป็นเครือเดียวกันค่ะ

And if you remember previous post #China we received tourist visa single entry to China but because of we transmitted so the way back from destination, we just need visa on arrival as Transit Visa at the airport and its FREE!!!

Let’s start.

Flight : China Eastern Airline flight to Shanghai.

Time fly : 3 hours

Visa : Tourist Visa for Thailand and Filipino

Hotel : We stay at service apartment hotel, where we can cook and do our laundry before heading to next destination. It was Serviced Apartment Pudong Lujiazui Shanghai! Might be not so perfect for english speaker but good price and not to far from Subway.

1st Big, in my view is – Shanghai pudong airport

Pudong Airport occupies a 40-square-kilometre (10,000-acre) site adjacent to the coastline in eastern Pudong.

Pudong Airport is a fast-growing hub for both passenger and cargo traffic. As per statistic 2016

Arrival to Pudong Airport

2nd Big, in my view is – China Bullet Train and Terminal

We had chance to made one day trip to Chang Zhou and we wanted to see the biggest wood pagoda and to experience nearest area out of shanghai.

We started from hotel at 8am, took subway from hotel to shanghai railway station,exit 6 [Subway map]

Let’s check Bullet Train Terminal below.

Below get inside terminal, must buy ticket at counter before enter, any counter will do.

There are lot of food inside terminal, go early because its big!

All seat in bullet train are reserved! You can request vip or non vip but both are non smoking with of course air condition.

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3rd Big in my view – Mercedes-Benz Arena (Shanghai)

The Mercedes-Benz Arena (Chinese: 梅赛德斯-奔驰文化中心; pinyin: Méisàidésī-bēnchí Wénhuà Zhōngxīn; Shanghainese:Meisedesy-bentzy Venhu Tsonshin), formerly known as the Shanghai World Expo Cultural Center, is an indoor arena located on the former grounds of Expo 2010 in Pudong, Shanghai, China. It is owned and operated by the AEG-OPG joint venture.

The facility seats 18,000 people and includes a smaller venue, The Mixing Room & Muse, which is a more intimate live-music venue.^[1]

The arena hosted the opening ceremony for the Expo 2010, during which it was known as the Expo Cultural Centre. Continue wiki here

To bad, there was rain when we came down there so we just only walked around at mall aside and enjoy view with foggy surrounded there.

4th Big in my view – The Bund

You won’t miss this if you in Shanghai. Some said its main business district, probably true, some said ..its a place where you can chill out the sunset, chill drink and a good pal. Well, i don’t know but for me. Its huge than I thought and it is everything!

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5th Big in my view – Big Pagoda at Tianning Temple

We took bullet train to out of Shanghai, just few hours away and take taxi 10 RMB. You will enjoy the big, tall pagoda and surrounded with yellow wall of old temple.