I stayed from 9 July to 17 July in the Shanghai region
	Garden in Wu Jiang Tongli ancient town
	Tongli
	silk factory in Tongli
	Tongli has many water canals...
	... which makes it some kind of Chinese Venice
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	Tiger Hill with historic Pagoda
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	Lingyin temple in Hangzhou a city close to Shanghai which itself has some 6 million inhabitants
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	Green Tea fields close to Hangzhou
	A talented tea seller
	West Lake in Hangzhou
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	Lotus flowers on West Lake
	The very nice museum in Suzhou
	driving into Shanghai
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	View to Pudong with the Oriental Pearl Tower
	View from the Oriental Pearl Tower towards the Bund (the old colonial riverside)
	View from Oriental Peral Tower
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	more skyscrapters in Pudong
	My brother on one of the many photos the Chinese wanted to take with him
	The congress center in Pudong
	View from Pudong to the old town
	Pudong views
	Views of the Huangpu river
	The Bund at day
	Nanjing Road shopping area
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	The bycicles and motor-rollers are still ominipresent even though (at least in Suzhou) all motor-rollers and many byciles are battery powered
	Pudong at night
	The Bund at night
	Yuyuan Bazar, nicely restored and upgraded with Starbucks' and the like
	The famour tea house in Yuyuan bazar
	Shanghai Museum at People's Square
	Taking the Maglev fast train (430 km/h) to the airport and back. It is really an experience when the magic number 430 shows up on the information board
	The Maglev
	Views to the Bund from the Jin Mao building
	Views to Pudong
	The last communist relict we could find: the place where the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party took place, ironically this is located in an area which today is a yuppy area (Xin Tiandi)
	Xin Tiandi area