Shanghai - day 4 (last day)

On my last day in Shanghai (Thursday, 21 September) I went to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. It was pretty cool and had a huge scale model of what city planners want Shanghai to look like in 10 years. You can't tell from the downtown area, but Shanghai is a huge city! I didn't realize it until I saw the model of the city. Their 'urban plan' is pretty ambitious, especially the environmental aspect of the plan considering how polluted the city is and how little the Chinese (and/or the Chinese government?) care about the environment. The exhibition hall took a while to walk through as it had many different exhibitions on different aspects of Shanghai's future. There was also (somewhat randomly) a Russian art exhibition temporarily on display on one of the floors. On my way back to the hostel I took one more stroll along the Bund (river front walkway). I got back to the hostel early in the afternoon and didn't really do much else that day. I think 4 days was the perfect amount of time for Shanghai. I would have been bored if I had spent a 5th day there.

That evening I bordered my train for the 38-hour trip to Chengdu, China. I had booked a 'hard sleeper', which is a third class sleeping bed. It was my first time taking 3rd class this trip because all the 3rd class trains up until know have been sold out.