shanghai

maybe it was just my experience, but i feel like shanghai is massively overrated. it's way more westernized than the other parts of china i had been to before, which makes it easier to get around, but in the end, it just ends up being less interesting. after seeing the tv tower and the bund, there really wasn't much more to do. i took to rooftopping and bumble dating instead and busied myself with figuring out how i was going to get to bangkok from here within two weeks. in retrospect, those two weeks would've been much more enjoyable if i'd just taken a plane from tokyo to bkk, but at the same time, i'm glad i pushed through with my no-planes-policy.Read more