This was part of our half-day tour of Shanghai. It's a huge complex with gardens in the middle and a market on the outside. It was really crowded. See the Starbucks? There was also a
KFC, naturally.
Also part of the market. Apparently pickpockets are a problem here. The building on the right is a restaurant that the
Clintons went to when they came to China.
This is inside the garden. I love the kid in the gazebo. He just looks so over it.
Dragons on one of the gates. If I remember correctly, Helen (the guide) said that dragons represent a female sensibility.
This gate had a warrior on one corner and a fisherman on the other. The warrior was for protection and the fisherman for commerce. A lot of the buildings have these little figures on the roof. I can't remember when this was built, I think around 1300.
A pretty fountain. This was taken from the crooked bridge, what has to be the most crowded pedestrian bridge in the world. I thought we would never make it across.
The interior of one of the buildings. This was a writing desk for one of the
government bigwigs. See the calligraphy brushes on the left corner of the desk?
A less crowded bridge over a
koi pond. It rained just a bit while we were here, but it stopped by the time we were finished with the tour.
Pretty butterflies back at the market. I would have liked to walk around the market a little more, but Helen was a whirling dervish. There was a stall in the middle of the market that was selling fried crabs that looked tasty. I wanted to try some (we hadn't had lunch that day) but we were hustled along.
This was part of our half-day tour of Shanghai. It's a huge complex with gardens in the middle and a market on the outside. It was really crowded. See the Starbucks? There was also a KFC, naturally.
Also part of the market. Apparently pickpockets are a problem here. The building on the right is a restaurant that the Clintons went to when they came to China. 
This is inside the garden. I love the kid in the gazebo. He just looks so over it.
Dragons on one of the gates. If I remember correctly, Helen (the guide) said that dragons represent a female sensibility.
This gate had a warrior on one corner and a fisherman on the other. The warrior was for protection and the fisherman for commerce. A lot of the buildings have these little figures on the roof. I can't remember when this was built, I think around 1300.
A pretty fountain. This was taken from the crooked bridge, what has to be the most crowded pedestrian bridge in the world. I thought we would never make it across.
The interior of one of the buildings. This was a writing desk for one of the government bigwigs. See the calligraphy brushes on the left corner of the desk?
A less crowded bridge over a koi pond. It rained just a bit while we were here, but it stopped by the time we were finished with the tour.
Pretty butterflies back at the market. I would have liked to walk around the market a little more, but Helen was a whirling dervish. There was a stall in the middle of the market that was selling fried crabs that looked tasty. I wanted to try some (we hadn't had lunch that day) but we were hustled along.
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