What can I say about Shanghai? Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that sometimes time is needed to see the beauty lying underneath. When I was here, Shanghai seemed to be one big building site and there isn't many traditional sights to visit. It has some interesting districts to it and I know of some people who rave about Shanghai but it appears to me to be very similar to every other aspiring Asian city.....a huge amount of shops, noise, pollution, people and fast food outlets. Maybe it's reputation has been built on/by the stock exchange but I just didn't get it and it's beauty remained hidden to me. Don't get me wrong, it's worth seeing if you are passing but I can't say I had a hankering to stay here longer. Maybe I'll get the opportunity to come back when the building work has calmed down a bit.I did go to a jaw dropping acrobat show here though. It was great entertainment, very beautiful to look at at times and the acrobats could bend themselves into positions that looked as if their spines and skeletons had been removed. Photos were supposedly banned but no one was adhering to this rule so I got a sneaky one in - see across. What I wouldn't give for stomach muscles like they have!
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