Shanghai 2025
Shanghai is an incredible city that we had imagined to be completely different: as 2/3 of the cars and 98 % of the countless scooters are electric, it is very quiet on the streets apart from the honking of the scooters. You can reach everything on foot if you want to. Travelling by underground is convenient, very cheap (a few cents per journey) and fast. There is a train approximately every 3 minutes. You feel safe everywhere in Shanghai, you can walk into a metro station in the evening or stroll through the streets in the dark without an oppressive feeling. Shanghai is a mixture of dreamy small town, bustling big city and areas that seem to come from the future. We will certainly be travelling there again next year. More photos will follow soon, as Shanghai was only the beginning and end of our trip to China.
The following photos are a colourful mix of the different parts of the city: the Yu Garden with Chinese garden art in the middle of Shanghai, Nanjing Road, a huge pedestrian zone and shopping street, People's Square with a wedding market (where parents - usually without their children's knowledge - try to find a spouse for them), lots of parks and green spaces scattered all over the city, flower boxes lining the motorways and, of course, the evening light show on the Bund.
