• Shanghai is the largest city in China and under direct control of the central government. Today, Shanghai became one of China's largest and busiest port, and the most important industrial and commercial center. It has 14 million inhabitants. Its annual average temperature is 15 degree C. And the Yangtze River joins into the sea in the coast. For tourists, Shanghai is a museum of 19th-century European and Japanese architecture.

• Yuyuan Garden was built by a Ming official of Suchuan State named Pan Yunduan for his parents. It was constructed in Ming dynasty from 1559 and completed in 1577 spending 18-year. After Mr. Pan dead, Pan family went into decline. Owner of Yuyuan Garden changed many times in 400 years. After several large-scale re-constructions since 1949, Yuyuan finally opened to the public in 1961. In spite of its relatively small area of two hectares, it seems considerably larger due to the skillful arrangement of 30 different landscape scenes.. It has more than 30 halls and pavilions and is divided into six spots by the dragon wall including Grand Rockery, Ten-Thousand-Flower Pavilion, Hall of Heralding Spring, Hall of Jade Magnificence, Inner Garden, and Lotus Pool. Grand Rockery is 14 meters high with 2,000 tons of rocks, featuring perilous peaks, cliffs, winding caves and gorges.

• Yuyuan Market is known as "Kingdom of Shanghai Arts & Crafts and small Articles". It is a good place to practice your bargaining skills. You can buy almost everything there, from delicious food, household necessities, to arts, antiques, jadeware, gold & silver ware, jewelry etc. There are 122 shops in the small area with more than 2,000 workers serving 100,000 - 300,000 customers per day.

Opening Times : 8:00 - 17:00        Admission fee \ 25

Red haler in Yuyuan	and yellow halers	200-year-old restaurant	Pavilions and lotus pond
Lively Yuyuan market	Lotus in the lotus pond	Entrance of Yuyuan, \25	Jiang Zemin wrote "Nice Garden by the sea"
Strange rocks with holes	Juanyu Pavilion, 1866	Grand Rockery, 2000t rocks	Juanyu Pavilion and pond
Reflection makes circle	Rare rocks: lion, monkey, elephant	Good contrast green & red	King's pavilion
Grand Rockery, stream and white wall	Typical scene of picture post card : Dragon wall	Emperor's symbol dragon was no use for vassal	Real dragon has 5 claws but this has only 4!
Doorway #1 : Square	Doorway #2 : Circle	Pond and winding corridors	Doorway #3 : Gates
Ten-Thousand-Flower Pavilion re-built in 1843	3 meters high rock	Doorway : #4 Vase-shaped	Changed scenery, bright bamboo grove

• This Temple is next to Yuyuan Garden, named "CHENG HUANG TEMPLE."

Filled with smokes	Smoke of incense	Yellow clothes	Ancient style Chinese
Many Gods inside	Red clothes and red face	People pray Gods inside case	Praying scenery by chance

• The Bund is called "Waitan" in Chinese. It is a 4-kilometer long strip in the western Bank of the Huangpu River stretching from the Garden Bridge in the north to the Nan Pu Bridge in the south.. On the western side of the Huangpu River there are 52 buildings of different architectural styles such as Gothic, Baroque Romanesque, Renaissance and Chinese. The Bund is regarded as "The Museum of International Architecture".

• When nights is down, radiant lights illuminate the historical buildings, turning it into a scene of "wonderland".

Daytime Bund look	Buildings are in 1800s	Old Hong Kong Shanghai Bank	Old HK Shanghai Bank of 1923
Famous quarter chime; Old Shanghai government, 1925	Old North China Daily News ＆Herald	Brown & white color resemble one in Rothenburg	Today, Peace Hotel, Old Sasoon House in 1929
Old, Main Office of  China Bank in 1937	Old Yokohama Bank, Shanghai Branch	Old Yangtze Insurance Association Building	Old India Suez Bank in 1914

• Russian Church was built by fund money of Russians in Shanghai in 1938. It admits 2,500 persons. It become main church of the Shanghai Greek Orthodox. However it stopped religious activity because the bishop died.

• Nan Pu Bridge on the Huangpu River was completed and opened in 1991.

Old days, Russian Church	Nan Pu Bridge, 8342m long

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