Alison: We arrived in Shanghai on the high speed bullet train from Beijing. Our top speed was just over 300 km/hour and so the journey took only around 4 hours. Shanghai was one of the cities that we visited previously on our first big trip but we wanted to go back because the first time we went, the city was preparing for the World Expo 2010 and so there was a lot of work going on and parts of the Bund were boarded up so we couldn't see it properly. Since we...

Alison: Shanghai is a very impressive city. Very modern. It really has the wow factor. The Pudong area is the business district of the city and it is this area that provides Shanghai with its famous skyline of skyscrapers. We had been told that going to the top of the Jinmao tower which is the tallest building in China was a must for views over the city. We decided to go at night to see all the lights and the colourfully lit boats traveling on the river which pas...