Leaving for Shanghai
28 marca 2018, Chiny ⋅ 🌫 20 °CHeading for Shanghai later today but first a trip to a pearl factory and then Beijing Airport. Air quality today is Hazardous. Time to put on our masks.
Heading for Shanghai later today but first a trip to a pearl factory and then Beijing Airport. Air quality today is Hazardous. Time to put on our masks.
Quick stop at the Olympic Park and then lunch at a Tibetan restaurant before heading to the airport. Air quality index is 500 which our guide said is one of the worst she has experienced. You can see Czytaj więcej
The gentleman drinking the coke was security at the boarding area. Now a 2 hour flight to Shanghai. Just about left “our” phones behind. Had a luxurious inflight “snack”. Yum yum! Not quite Czytaj więcej
Shanghai
Learned about silk production and saw the end products including duvets, carpets and silk embroidery.
Artifacts from many of the Ming dynasties as eat as 20 AD.
Went for a morning stroll to visit the old city of Jiading near our hotel in Shanghai. Approximately a 25 mInute walk. Leaving for Yichang later today to catch our Yangtze River boat cruise. Weather Czytaj więcej
Drove about 1 1/2 hours from our hotel to the second Shanghai airport (Pudong Airport) to catch our flight to Yichang. Interesting architecture at the airport as you will see in the pictures. As we Czytaj więcej
Podróżnik Nice pearls!