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I like traffic jams. I mean I like watching the bunch of idiots who preferred car over public transportation during peak hours. What I really don't like is being such an idiot myself. But this is what happened, got stuck in goddamned taxi and was about to miss my flight. Somehow I managed to board a plane but I had to take my luggage with me. When we were still in New Mexico, we bought a shitload of water so we wouldn't die in a desert. We didn't manage to drink this water, so we donated it to our guesthouse in San Francisco. I took few bottles with me to China and was still drinking them by now. So, as I didn't check in my luggage, the fuckers at security confiscated my American water and they also took my American shampoo. They must hate the US as they didn't bother with scissors and I took them onboard.
2 and a half hours, 1200 km and I'm in world's largest city, Shanghai. The paranoia level is much higher here than in similarly sized but tourist free Shenzhen. They check your luggage at every metro station. Some people ignore security check and just proceed with a poker face and the guards do not bother running after them. The other annoyance are scammers and other shitsellers. First they pretend to be tourists and ask you to make a photo of them, then strike a conversation and then try to sell some shit to you. Fortunately I suddenly forgot English and they could not communicate with me. Well, genuine Chinese tourists do not speak English either.
Apart from this, Shanghai is magnificent. I really miss I didn't bought my ticket earlier. I thought I will see just another Hong Kong style megapolis, but Shanghai is no way like this! It is diverse and as interesting as Paris, Berlin or New York. They also have magnetic levitation train line which runs to and from Pudong airport with a top speed of 430 kmh. It was a nice travel experience but absolutely economically unfeasible as the airport is also connected by metro. Metro is slower, but the time you need to change from metro to maglev, buy new tickets, stay in line for another security check and then travel for 7 minutes, this altogether is the same as just staying in metro and travel another 11 stations, but for metro you don't pay any additional price.
I saw russo turisto at the airport, actually for the first time in my life. They were the ones bypassing the line for security check ignoring the messages from guards. I didnt expect to have a free wildlife observation tour at the airport, that was an interesting experience.
Another 1200 km and I'm abroad again, in Hong Kong until tomorrow. I'm now staying in true Hong Kong style hotel where the bathroom is larger than the room itself. Well, I now don't think that my flat is small, haha.
2 and a half hours, 1200 km and I'm in world's largest city, Shanghai. The paranoia level is much higher here than in similarly sized but tourist free Shenzhen. They check your luggage at every metro station. Some people ignore security check and just proceed with a poker face and the guards do not bother running after them. The other annoyance are scammers and other shitsellers. First they pretend to be tourists and ask you to make a photo of them, then strike a conversation and then try to sell some shit to you. Fortunately I suddenly forgot English and they could not communicate with me. Well, genuine Chinese tourists do not speak English either.
Apart from this, Shanghai is magnificent. I really miss I didn't bought my ticket earlier. I thought I will see just another Hong Kong style megapolis, but Shanghai is no way like this! It is diverse and as interesting as Paris, Berlin or New York. They also have magnetic levitation train line which runs to and from Pudong airport with a top speed of 430 kmh. It was a nice travel experience but absolutely economically unfeasible as the airport is also connected by metro. Metro is slower, but the time you need to change from metro to maglev, buy new tickets, stay in line for another security check and then travel for 7 minutes, this altogether is the same as just staying in metro and travel another 11 stations, but for metro you don't pay any additional price.
I saw russo turisto at the airport, actually for the first time in my life. They were the ones bypassing the line for security check ignoring the messages from guards. I didnt expect to have a free wildlife observation tour at the airport, that was an interesting experience.
Another 1200 km and I'm abroad again, in Hong Kong until tomorrow. I'm now staying in true Hong Kong style hotel where the bathroom is larger than the room itself. Well, I now don't think that my flat is small, haha.
