Shanghai China

Shanghai China
click photo to enlarge	So far, all of our hotels in China had been nice but the last hotel in Shanghai was a step up and very classy. It was a Marriot Renaissance. We were on our own for our last full day in Shanghai. We decided to take the on-off bus tour of the city. We were able to see the Jade Temple, the Bund, a 3 story knock-off market with a few hundred stores selling genuine Fake Chinese merchandise. Karen wanted to buy a couple more scarves and the store owners asked if she wanted them with “designer” names on them. She said no designer names.
click photo to enlarge	The Bund has dozens of historic buildings on one side of the river, and on the other are beautiful new high rise buildings. The historic buildings, built in the 1930s & 1940s, once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain.
click photo to enlarge	We also went to the Jade Temple, built in 1882. It has two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by ship. The Buddha statues are a sitting Buddha and a smaller reclining Buddha representing Buddha’s death.
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