Today was the first real opportunity to go sight seeing, and we certainly packed a lot into today. The first stop was a quick ferry ride across the Haung Pu river from Pudong to Puxi (pronounced Pusi), Pudong was a village of farmers as recently as 10 years ago and now boasts one of the largest number of high rise buildings outside of New York. More on Pudong in a future post.
Once in Puxi, we were able to see some of the few remaining original buidings of Old Shanghai. These particular shops & accommodation above date to the late 1900's. There's very little of this older Shanghai remaining as most of the city is in a constant state of construction.
A short walk from the section of old buildings is the famous Yu Yuan Gardens, a collection of traditional buildings, a very famous Buddha, intertwined with lakes and rivers full of extremely well feed goldfish. There is also a bridge you connects the gardens to the main exterior buildings, you'll notice its not a straight bridge, in fact its a zig zag design which is supposed to confuse evil spirits, thus making it impossible for them to cross the bridge into the gardens.
