Well, I had a long post written and then lost it so this will be the abbreviated version. We went up in the Oriental Pearl Tower yesterday which is like the CN Tower in some ways. Talked Amber out onto the glass observation deck. Afterwards we went to the indoor market stalls near Yuyuan Garden, which we did not find (the garden) but scored some great buys, so happy about that. Slogged back to the hotel, hot, sweaty and tired, rested for a bit and then went out for supper and to take in the bright lights of Shanghai's Bund district from the other side of the river. Spectacular! This morning we got up early and made our painful way to the train station, burdened by our large packs that seem to gain weight overnight. My daughter's seems to be the worst! She can hardly lift it now. We took the fast train again, and managed to find our hotel with the help of a taxi and the address in script.
Spent a frustrating day trying to work out how to get to the Zhouzhuang water town - language barrier at it's worst. We ended up pissing the day away, being chased by aggressive taxi, rickshaw and motorbike drivers wanting us to take their overpriced service. We paid 16 RMB to get from our hotel to the bus station but they wanted 50-100RMB to get back - get stuffed we said. We took a bus, got lost, so got another taxi, fairly priced via meter back to our hotel and said to hell with today. We went out later for some food, and decided we will go to the water town in the morning before heading back to Beijing for the rest of the week. Great Wall on Wednesday!
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