Yesterday we rode the subway to the Summer Palace to enjoy the sights. The place is a huge park with a lot of ornate buildings, pretty gardens and collections of art that used to be owned by the Empress Dowager. As far as I can tell, most of the buildings stand as a monument to her vanity, but they are a lot of fun to see. We stayed for several hours before heading back to our hotel.
We checked out of the hotel early this morning and took a cab to the train station. Our train was a fast one, going 353 kilometers per hour at times. That's 219 mph. We rode second class and it was clean, quiet and comfortable. The trip to Shanghai took just a few hours. The scenery was mostly green fields.
We got off the train and emerged into a vast station, where we took a little while to figure out how to find the right subway line. After a good while on the subway we reached the station near our hotel. It began raining just as we arrived at the hotel, so we felt lucky to have missed the rain. We'll spend a couple of days in Shanghai before moving on.
I LOVE how you two are able to figure out where you are and how to get where you need to be! It's impressive! Enjoy Shanghai!
ReplyDeleteDitto Betsy’s comment. I am wondering if I would be a little bit nervous on a train traveling at that speed.
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