Showing posts with label Shanghai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shanghai. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Another Shocking Thing

July 26, 2017

Early in the morning on 28th June, we set off to railway station again for heading to Hangzhou – the city I had been wondering about all this time. Many people said Hangzhou is a beautiful city. Since my trip to Hangzhou this time was only a one day round-trip, I have not really enjoyed the beauty of Hangzhou.

From Shanghai to Hangzhou took only 1 hours using gaotie. Due to the limited time, we only visited The Famous West Lake and Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, then went back home – to Shanghai at dusk.

Back in Shanghai.. 

The following day after Hangzhou trip, we went to Shanghai Disneyland
We arrived at Disneyland at mid day and surprisingly knew that the entrance ticket for that day had already SOLD OUT. It surprised me. A lot...

But, well.. that was China. It was holiday season. Shanghai Disneyland had just opened a year ago. It is the first disneyland in mainland China. So, it’s understandable that most China local tourists (and some foreigner tourists) went there – maybe for their first time to see what Shanghai Disneyland. Looks like.

#traveltips
*) If you plan to go vacation to China in holiday season, will travel by yourself, and Shanghai Disneyland is one of your must-visit-attractions. You’d better buy the theme park ticket in advance (you can buy it via Qunar app or ask your travel agent).

#travelinfo
*) there is a popular restaurant in China called Grandma’s House (known as Wai Po Jia in Mandarin). It has 40+ outlets in Hangzhou, Beijing,Shanghai and more. The food is generally quite delicious and the price is very affordable. Should try once!
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Train's Lyfe

July 26, 2017

09.00 // after packing all of our stuffs, we went out to have some breakfast before off to the railway station. We took our lugagges along the street, sometimes had to pick it up to go upstairs and then put it down again, until we reached the nearby subway station and then the railway station. It’s my first time traveling in China with Gaotie. The Guangzhou’s railway station was so big (i think bigger than airports in Indonesia). It had a lots of gates of ticket check points that got me confused from which one i had to enter. Walking inside the station, Q-ing for inspection and checking-in the ticket took about 20-25 minutes. Realizing that we were almost running out of time, i ran my feet off (with two lugagges) to get on board. Thankfully, we had arrived two minutes earlier before the train left.
Train Ticket to Shanghai
21.00 // we arrived at our booked hotel at Shanghai

From the almost-running-out-of-time experience that day, I promised to myself to depart earlier to the station. Not only to the station, but also to the airport and to everywhere during the trip. June-August is the holiday season in China. There are so many local tourists in every public places. Queuing is inevitable. And train, always departs on schedule.  So I have to set off earlier to anticipate. Don’t want to be in rush anymore *fiuh*.

The second day in Shanghai we went to The Bund – that famous place in Shanghai with its pearl tower, and also went to Shanghai Film Park to look around China ancient buildings locals usually use as the shooting film location. At one of local restaurants around the park, I tasted the original huiguorou.
Huiguorou (回锅肉)
is usually called Twice cooked pork or Double cooked pork belly. It is a Sichuan-style Chinese dish

#travelinfo
*) Before train checking-in, passengers should know exactly which check point they should go to have their tickets checked. The number of check point can be seen at the top right of the ticket. Afterwards, we should go to the platforms to get onboard.
*) Most local restaurants in China provide food menu which all written in Han Zi (Chinese Character) without the pictures of the food. You can recognize some key words like 肉 ”rou” which means “meat” in common, 鸡 “ji” (Chicken), 鱼 “yu” (fish), 牛 “niu” (beef), 猪 “zhu” (pork), and 鸭 “ya” (duck).
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