If you like a modern, relatively clean city complete with a few nice museums as well as sit down toilets, then Shanghai is a great place to visit. Personally, with a few exceptions, I hated it. Shanghai is strikingly more modern and more orderly than Beijing. With order and cleanliness comes higher prices (about 2X). The architecture and street layout of the French Concession area was pretty cool, but it is French, so I will say no more:). The one huge winner was the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum. Considering my audience (self included), this probably does not sound too interesting, but trust me when I say that if you saw it in person, it would blow you away. What they have done for Shanghai's development over the past 15 years and what they plan on doing in the next 10 is mind boggling. Check out some of the before and after photos of the changes to the skyline over a ten year period. What they plan on doing in the next ten years is even scarier. They are designing and building entire new cities, and they are doing so down to the tiniest detail. New cities in the area are predetmined to have "X" types of business (R&D, Auto, University, Tourism, etc.) with "Y" number of people, and "Z" percentage of greenery and mass transportation per person. The number of people, the type of home, type of schools, etc. are all planned out. I am not into this kind of thing and I was blown away. While the Urban Planning Museum was pretty cool, it was not cool enough for me to not want to get the heck out of dodge as soon as possible. I needed less people, less structure, and less car horns fast. Just when I was about to pull my hair out, I stumbled into a great two hours of luxory and the best $13 I have ever spent. I spent $5 on a haircut which included a pre and post wash, a shoulder and back rub down, a scalp massage, and straight razor clean up job. I then capt it off with an $8, eighty minute foot massage; heaven! For the cherry on top, I had crawfish, frog, and a good cold beer (see pictures). It's the simple things in life you know. Off to Nanjing for the Nanjing Massacre Museum. So I thought.