Arriving in China, Shanghai should definitely visit

Nowadays many tourists visit China. Shanghai has become one of the most attractive places, the city by which the whole country is judged. Perhaps this is not entirely fair, but this metropolis is definitely worth a visit.

Once in our country there was a tradition to call slum areas "shankhayami" or even "shankaychikami." Now this idea of this city, as a crowded squalor of shabby shacks, is outdated. This word is operated by those who have long or never visited China. Shanghai has become an ultramodern metropolis that surprises and admires.

Skyscrapers, multi-level overpasses, shining neon lights of advertising, in a word, all the external signs of economic prosperity that China has been going through the last decades. Shanghai and Hong Kong became the gateway to the new Celestial Empire, which became the world industrial shop. And if the former British colony owes a part of its appearance to Western civilization, then Shanghai became what it became, solely thanks to the work of the Chinese.

Already on approach to the city through the porthole of the aircraft are visible huge industrial areas, blown up by numerous pipes.

The most modern multi-terminal airport impresses both by its size and the way it is connected to the city center. The train on the magnetic cushion Malev (abbreviated expression "magnetic levitation") also inside looks like the cabin of an airliner and moves at a speed worthy of it. Over five hundred kilometers per hour, he develops, according to the indicators of the digital speedometer installed in each car above the door, and within minutes travels a distance of forty-odd kilometers to the metro station. The ticket is inexpensive, about five dollars.

This is now China. Shanghai continues to pleasantly surprise and its subway: it is crowded, but clean and everywhere is the order.

The taxi service works very well, it is relatively inexpensive and works exclusively on a taximeter (the driver issues a check).

There are many places that are worth visiting after arriving in Shanghai. The sights are diverse. This is the Aquarium, in which, above the heads of visitors walking or riding on moving conveyor belts on tunnels made of thick glass, strange inhabitants of the ocean depths float by, and the Museum of Science and Technology, occupying a huge task in the style of "techno" with specialized halls and whole Pavilions, depicting climatic zones from the tundra to the jungle.

There are also interesting models of atomic structures, and intelligible models for demonstrating the transfer of information in binary code, and much more. Everything can be touched by hands, and children are even allowed to climb all over it!

Another place worth visiting is the Shanghai Telecentre or the "Pearl of the East". Rise on a high-speed elevator and the opportunity to look at the city from a height of over four hundred meters is worth one hundred yuan. It's inexpensive, about twelve US dollars. The view is beautiful and impressive. The telecentre is very close to the Aquarium.

It is not necessary to go to the Aerospace Museum, although there is such a metro station. It's far, and the museum has not been built.

This is Shanghai. China, of course, is not all that modern, one can be sure of this by driving a hundred or two kilometers from the metropolis.

Therefore, the streets of Shanghai are filled with people offering vying for inexpensive services like massage, shopping and so on.