She says: Shanghai (pronounced, as we learned, as "Shung-hi") was, for us, a study of opposites, as we've found so many Asian cities to be. It reminded us in turns of New York, Paris, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Shanghai was one of our many layover stops on this trip and we had just under 24 hours from our arrival until our departure to explore this massive city. Luckily, we were reminded by Red Pine friends that the younger brother of our friend, Clark has been livi...

He says: What a difference a day makes. Tokyo and Shanghai are like night and day. Gone was the order and courtesy we had grown accustomed to during our time in Japan. From the moment we stepped off the plane into China, it was chaos. We took the world's fastest train, the Maglev (top speed of 421km/h) to a subway station - we reached 301km/h. It was like a really smooth roller coaster ride and was super fun. The subway ride to near our hotel was full of teenager...