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Attractions Near Shanghai

Travel places near Shanghai, such as Shengsi, Nanjing, Suzhou, Lin An, An Ji, Huizhou, and Huang Shan. Most of tour can be completed within 1 or two days. If you are already in Shanghai, I'd like to suggest you to take a look.

1. Trip Plan Case Study - Shanghai - Hangzhou May 31, 2007
   This is a case study of a typical trip, along with my suggestions. (The questions were edited a little bit - just some editorial changes). I read your blog. It's very interesting, especially because I'll visit Shanghai in next 10 days. Well, I'm Indonesian Chinese overseas, not fluetly Pu Tong Hua speaking, so will be though back to mainland :) I have free time before my course, I'll come to Shanghai at 2nd Jun morning. I plan to go Hangzhou,...
2. Nice Hotel in Tongli Apr 12, 2007
   I didn't write about it. Wendy and I went to Tongli for a night during Saturday - arrive at late night, and stayed in a very nice small hotel there, and left early in the morning (at 8:30 AM, we are already on the high way to Shanghai). This is my second time (and Wendy's first time) to Tongli. As I said in my last post, Tongli is a beauty at night. I highly recommend people to stay in Tongli...
3. Peach Flower in Nanhui District Apr 2, 2007
   Share some pictures I took during the weekend in Nanhui 南汇. Direction: Drive along A20 toward Pudong Airport, and turn to A2. Exit at Hunan Highway and turn left....
4. Jiading is Not As Far as I Thought Mar 20, 2007
   Jiading 嘉定 is a district of Shanghai, but far from the downtown Shanghai. I haven't been there before I attended the wedding ceremony for my friend. The express way from Shanghai Downtown to Jiading is the first express way in China. It was completed in 1988. I heard about the Shanghai - Jiading Express way in 1994, and in my mind, Jiading must be extremely far away, that people need to connect the two places with an expressway. Yesterday, we...
5. Dishuihu (Dishui Lake) Pictures Sep 13, 2006
   Shanghai is a city without high mountains. Sheshan is maybe the only hill Shanghai has. Shanghai has a river - Huangpu River, but Huangpu is not that interesting - you cannot sail or swim in it. Shanghai is near sea, but there is no beach. People like hiking may have to climb stairs of buildings. People like sailing may only be able to watch cargo boats in the river. People like sea cannot even touch the river of the sea...
6. Shengsi Island Pictures Apr 19, 2006
   Here are Shengsi Island Pictures on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jianshuo/tags/shengsi/ Here are some hightlights: Volleyball on the Beach Lunch in village. Kijiji logo on sand Sea Near the sea: Road on island: P.S. This post was posted on April 28. Changed date to make up the absence of entry after the trip....
7. Back from Shengsi Apr 18, 2006
   Back from Shengsi Island. The island is about 1 hour fast boat to the Little Yangshan Harbor. For the first time, I go through the East Sea Birdget - a bridge of 30 KM long. It is not common to get onto a bridget extending deep into the sea, and cost about 30 minutes to get to the other end. The project is even more amazing than the beautiful scene at Shengsi. More pictures and guide to get there will...
8. Hello from Nanjing Mar 16, 2006
   I am in Nanjing now. I am still at the excitement of the Maglev's extension to Hangzhou, and imagine how lives in both city will change if the 30 minute connection line is built. Now I am in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province. The Trip The trip from Shanghai to Nanjing is shorter than I expected. The first time I came to Nanjing on Oct 1, 1996, the train was schedule to arrive in 6 hours, and turned out......
9. Back from Ji'An Trip Oct 23, 2005
   Just back from camping in the mountains of Ji'An in Zhejiang Province with Kijiji team, media and community members. Here are some pictures I took during the trip. See what happened on the date of 2005-10-23. Obviously, we only have this day once in our entire life. Thanks for Flickr (of which I am a pro users). It seems I can use only very few percentage of the bandwidth limit they set for me - 2G. P.S. I realized I...
10. Zhuo Zheng Yuan of Suzhou Feb 11, 2005
    Suzhou is famous for its gardens. This is the second time we visit a garden in Suzhou. We planned to visit some places none of us had visited, but finally, we chose the Zhuo Zheng Yuan or the Hamble Administrator's Garden, which all of us visited already. We picked it because we want to refresh our memories of Suzhou Gardens, and this garden is among the best. Suzhou Garden in New York When Wendy and I visited the New York...
11. Drive to the City of Suzhou Feb 11, 2005
    If you have two or three days in Shanghai, I'd suggest you to pay a visit to Suzhou. Although a visit to Suzhou is not as rewarding as a visit to Hangzhou (personally, I love Hangzhou better), it is very worth the time. It is only 100 km away from Shanghai. As previous visit, I could get up late in the morning, had my breakfast at home, drove to Suzhou within 2 hours (including one hour or more in Shanghai)...
12. Bamboo at Mt. Tian Mu, Lin An Oct 31, 2004
    Drove 550 km (round trip) from Shanghai to Lin An near Hangzhou (45km away) and visied the Mt. West Tian Mu. I took some pictures of the bamboo wood there. © Jian Shuo Wang © Jian Shuo Wang © Jian Shuo Wang © Jian Shuo Wang © Jian Shuo Wang...
13. Group Drive to Yang Cheng Lake Jul 10, 2004
    I drove my car to Yang Cheng lake today with my friends. We have four cars today. The Yang Chen Lake is the darker lake on the top to the characters Suzhou in the map below. First Time on Highway Thanks to the new transportaation regulation, I, as a intern driver, can drive onto the expressway now. In contrast, the old law requires driver to hold a driver's license for at least one year before he/she can use the expressway....
14. Drove to Songjiang University City Oct 25, 2003
    Songjiang I heard about the University city in Songjiang. Driving along the Caobao Rd., Husong Rd, I get there after one and half hour - actually, it should only take 50 minutes, but the terrible traffic jam at the Zhongchun Rd. intersection held us there for about 40 minutes. The new campus is very beautiful - we were so impressed to see the completely new buildings there. At least four universities has moved or expanded there from their campus in...
15. Travel Tips to Hui Zhou Oct 8, 2003
    People are interested in my photos and travel experience in Hui Zhou. JL wrote to ask for the details of the trip (transportation, accommodation, main attractions ect.). Well. Not surprisingly, I am willing to share with you about the trip. Hui Zhou 徽州 is in the An Hui Province - west to Jiang Su Province (where Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi are located) and Shanghai. Transportation I took train K818/K819 from Shanghai to Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) Station. The train left...
16. Returned from Huizhou (Huang Shan) Trip Oct 7, 2003
    We finally returned to Shanghai today after the four day trip to Hui Zhou. We planned to go to Huang Shan (the Yellow Mountain) but changed our route to visit the villages near Huang Shan instead. The places I visited include a lot of villages with strange names. I cannot read some of the characters in the names. They are (in Chinese and Pinyin) 黟县 西递 宏村 卢村 木坑 屯溪 歙县 棠樾 呈坎 Yixian Xidi Hongcun Lucun Mukeng Tunxi Shexian...
17. Going to Huang Shan Oct 2, 2003
    In the next few days, maybe four days, I will leave for Huang Shan - or the Yellow Mountain in Anhui Province in China. We have been there serveral years ago, but it was raining and frogy....
18. Interested in Degree Confluence Project Aug 6, 2003
    Today, I found very interesting stuff - the Degree Confluence Project via this thread (Chinese) of Digiblog.org The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here Credit: Confluence.org What an interesting project it. It reminded us there is only one earth. This is a very good reference for students to learn geography -...
19. Tongli - Beauty at Night Jul 2, 2003
    The most impressive spot on my journey from Shanghai to Taihu is the small town of Tongli 同里. The accient town may seems quite boring at day time if you have visited lots of similiar town like Zhouzhuang, Luzhi..... However, if you experience the town at night, you will definitely be as impressed as I did - it is definitely the beauty at night. © Jian Shuo Wang Above: The night of Tongli. There is no passengers on the street....

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