They charge hefty 20 y per hour for slow internet in the hostel so I escaped to the Shanghai public Library where you pay 4 yuan per hour – fast connection, no crowd – recommended!
Shanghai has many faces. Nice residences from “colonial” period, impressive skyscrapers on the Pudong but also small crowded streets full of stalls, tiny shops and poverty… In the center you will be bothered many times to buy fake ROLLEX watch, to take “the massage” by beautiful ladies and simply by beggars. I took the lift to the second “pearl” of the famous TV tower – the weather is cloudy but is was worth anyway: the view from 260 m – high platform is just great…
Bad news – the typhoon Chanchu is coming to the China coast from the Philippines – it will be rainy tomorrow – I hope I will be able to stroll the streets of the old Shanghai anyway…
