We arrived in Shanghai’s Pudong airport a little after 9 p.m. and headed for the maglev train (which was supposed to take us to Shanghai at 400 km/h), but were greeted with a sign “The Running is Over.” We took a bus instead, having figured out from the map that our hotel was roughly in the Jing An area, and the bus seemed to go there (“Qu Jing An ma?”), so we took the bus and then took a taxi from in front of Jin An Temple, by showing the taxi driver the address of our hotel in Chinese that we got from the hotel by email.

Next morning we walked through our neighborhood towards the railroad station to buy tickets to Nanjing for the following day.

We then took subway to Nanshi – Shanghai’s “China Town” where we also visited Yu Garden and then spent almost 40 minutes in line for what was supposed to be Shanghai’s best dumplings.

When we left the garden it started raining and poured for most of the afternoon, so we had to resort to hopping from store to store along Nanjing Lu – Shanghai’s main shopping street.