Exploring More of the City - People's Square

Went out today with Cindy, Russell and Wesley to check out People's Square. It's one of those tourist spots to see. Basically, it's a huge park/square with a large fountain and the Shanghai Art Museum. But it's beautiful and very peaceful, considering that the surroundings were all huge skyscrapers and malls.

Shanghai is a city of MALLS.

Coming out of the subway...


A park near the subway - it had some small theme park rides too.


Samsung building!

Some more skyscrapers...


That tall building on the right picture resembles the Sauron tower in Lord of the Rings...=)

And amidst all the modern, futuristic, sci-fi skyscrapers, there were these dinky little buildings...


Countdown to Expo Asia 2010 - the mascot is called Haibao


People's Square

This old shack was technologically advanced with its solar-power panels!

Russell and Cindy check their phones while a man tries to fly a squid-kite

Shanghai Art Museum




There was this random line that formed to cross the street (we think) and it didn't seem like a tour group, so Russell decides to join the line...


Birds flock around this lady feeding them. This is the first time we've seen pigeons, or doves for this matter. The lady was crazy - she managed to grab a few feathers off of a poor bird!

People's Park

A man drags a cart full of branches...

Barbarossa - a famous lounge...in the middle of the lake



We saw a lot of men fishing in these dark green lakes within the park.

There was also the MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art - in this park. We visited it and checked out the exhibits, and we even sat in on a movie that they were showing as one of the art exhibits. It was the most excruciatingly hilarious experience we ever had - and if we had not left, we might have stayed for the duration of the entire movie - all 95 minutes of it.