Wuhan and Shanghai - two cities on the Yangzi River

08.02.09
We arrived the capitol of Hubei province, Wuhan early in the morning. We spent two days here in a great hostel. We walked around quite a bit, exploring the city. The first day, we had our first encounter with the Yangzi River. This river has been and still is very important to many regions in China, and we have heard and read about it, so we were looking forward to seeing it. It is incredebly wide, and the bridges crossing it quite impressive. The city reminded us abit about Lanzhou, an industrialized city and quite big. We saw some pretty nice buildings in Wuhan the few days we were there. We visited the Hubei Provincial Museum and a place where Mao Zedong lived a while during the 1960s.

10.02.09
Arrived Shanghai in the morning (as always when taking our favorite hard sleeper night trains). Found the hostel, and went with map in hand to explore this famous city. We stayed here for enough days to find the local restaurant with the best pulled noodels (la mian) in Shanghai City (atleast so we believe). We stayed there for 6 days.
Here is a list of things we saw and did:
The Bund, The Astor Hotel, Jinmao Tower, East Nanjing Road, People's Park, The French Consession, The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, The Shanghai Museum, took the subway alot (ALOT), ate icecream, played pool and checked out some very nice art galleries.