Shanghai Business District and the skyscrapers

Today I’m gonna write and post some pictures about the Shanghai business district around the Bund and Lujiazui in the Pudong area. The Bund is probably the most famous tourist spot for people visiting Shanghai and there are all the time hundreds of people taking pictures from the spectacular view to Pudong. It’s also the home for many Chinese and foreign companies to have their offices there, even though the Pudong side is way more popular. The Bund is located also very close to the East Nanjing Road metro station and the pedestrian street, which is a very big shopping street that has its other end at People’s Square. 

Me, my girlfriend and our friend wanted to visit one of the three observation decks for tourists on the skyscrapers on one very sunny and clear day. There are three decks you can visit and they all are located close to the Lujiazui metro station. The possibilities are the Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC). We decided to go to the SWFC which is the highest tower in Shanghai and its observation deck is the world’s tallest currently with its height of 474m. In total there were 3 decks on different levels but I strongly recommend to pay the extra 50yuan for adults to get to the very top because the view is that awesome, though its very cool from the lowest deck too. However, on the highest deck you can enjoy the view while walking on a glass floor looking directly down on the streets! If you want to enjoy the same view from your hotel window, there’s a Park Hyatt hotel at the SWFC too and it’s just below the observation decks on the floors between 79 and 93. 

Sunny day in Shanghai

This Sunday was probably the first really sunny day here in the past 3 weeks. It’s been very smoggy and cloudy for the most part but luckily it hasn’t rained that much. So as it was such a nice day today, I decided to take the local metro and drive from our apartment to the business district in the New Pudong Area. Metro seems to be the best way to get from place A to place B here since the taxi drives can sometimes be very long due to the traffic and one metro ride costs only 3 yuan. We have also a school project about Starbucks in Shanghai and I had agreed with our group members to visit one of the company’s stores located in that area so today was a perfect opportunity to do that also.. 

Right next to the famous Pearl Tower is a big, 6 story shopping mall called the Super Brand Mall in which all the world’s luxury brands have their stores. I just decided to walk around the mall and take a little snack at the Starbucks as planned. After that I walked around the New Pudong area enjoying the nice weather and looking at all beautiful buildings and views there. In the afternoon and early evening I went to the other side of the river to Bund. My plan was to wait until it gets dark to take some photos of Pudong as it’s pretty amazing with all of it’s lights on the skyscrapers.