Last Day in Shanghai

We were sad to be leaving Shanghai and head back to Korea. We love our students, but, Shanghai was great. The weather was warmer and it was cheaper. It felt nice to be out of the weekday routine for a little bit at least. I had a good time, but wished I could have seen more things. We did a lot. We wanted to relax a bit before heading back. So, our last day, we kept it simple. We went to this area called Qibao. This area of Shanghai has many canals. It was nice because lots of Chinese people go there but not tourists. This ancient canal town dates to AD 960-1127. It was beautiful. We went on a boat ride through the canals. The buildings were beautiful, very traditional and old.




The neighborhood before the the main Qiabo area wasn't too captivating. At first we were wondering where we had taken ourselves. This wasn't like the photos in the travel books.






We found some fish drying.







At last! QIABO! We foind the area of boats, red buildings, and teashops.

Judy in Qiabo.


And then we found the great canal area. I was pleased.



We got tickets to ride a boat up and down the canals. It was so relaxing, floating on the water like that.

I was happy to have a strong woman in control of our boat.




These are some of the nice, historic buildings along the canal. It was a great city.









There was laundry everywhere in Shanghai. Even along the canals...

Judy and I really enjoyed the canal tour. It was such a peaceful trip. A wonderful way to end our trip.


This is similar to the boat we rode in.


Before leaving Qiabo we went about found some dumplings and sticky rice cakes. Rice cakes in China wrapped in a banana leaf, or other green leaves. They are usually filled with a shredded BBQ pork. They are very tastey.


The different colors are the different dumplings. We ordered shrimp and those took forever to cook. I think their color was black.





When were looking for a taxi back to the city we found a park that full of these anniversary statues and flowers.

60 years!



60 years of communism. We were reminded of this everywhere. We saw the festivities in Beijing for the anniversary. It looked insane. There were so many fireworks, lights, and choreography.




We found our taxi. Goodbye Shanghai!