Shanghai

I was a few nights in Shanghai with my brother and cousin. Being with them was the best thing there.

Shanghai skyline: Pudong seen from the Bund.

Some say that Shanghai is a glimpse into what China is heading towards. Sad fate waits China, then. Shanghai is a city of show-off, where money is everything. Barely no arts nor culture, just shopping malls, expensive restaurants, cheesy pseudo-posh clubs, vain people (both Chinese and foreigners) and expensive cars (Lamborghinis, Bentleys, etc.). The skyscrapers are fantastic, but I felt the city sterile and vain.

Anyway, the weather was cold and rainy and I was tired... One's opinion of a place when travelling depends on many external and internal factors. Probably I was not in Shanghai in the right moment of my trip.

My tired (and hungover) brother and cousin in the bullet train between Beijing and Shanghai, moving at 300km/h