ShangHai, my home city. When someone ask me what is your favorite place in China, I would always answer Shanghai. ShangHai is a international city, very well developed, we visited the World Financial Center on the East side of the Huang Pu river, even though I am from Shanghai, I have never been inside before. It was really impressive, it is now the second tallest building in China, where the tallest one is right by it. The bund is also a signature place in ShangHai. At the bund, you can see the west side of the Huang Pu river, which is full of classic european buildings, and on the east side are all the tall modern buildings. I also went to Xin Tian DI, which is a western bar street with some high-end shopping. At the night, when all the lights are on, ShangHai is really beautiful. With all the easy transportations such as subways, , being able to get around easily was awesome. Although I got lost like twenty times 🙂

After the Cruise, we arrived in ChongQing. I have never been to ChongQing before, It is a really nice city, very similar to HongKong. The city is built on the mountain. In Chong Qing, we went to a zoo, in the zoo we saw Pandas!! Well, its actually not that exciting to see panda, but the ChongQing Hotpot dinner was great! Although it was really spicy. Then we visited Changan Ford on the next day, and we were able to see the whole process of how every single car is made. It was really awesome, I was really impressed.

The Yangtze River Cruise was the more relaxing days in China. Along with the beautiful views, the ship includes entertainments such as karaoke, cinema room, MaJiang room, Ping Pong table and a bar. The main focus of the cruise was the Three Gorges Dam, which generates a tons of electricity. In order to get pass the dam, it can take a few hours to do so. We also went off the boat and visited places, although the fog was really bad, but it was still good time. One more thing is that, the speaker in my room can be turned off, so when there was announcement in the early morning, I was able to keep sleeping 🙂

YICHANG, CHINA: This picture dated 29 October, 2005 shows China’s Three Gorges dam which is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, crossing over the Yangtze River in Yichang, in the central province of Hubei. China said, 07 November 2005, it would spend about 180 billion USD over the next 15 years to increase its use of renewable energy to 15 percent of the total generated, from the current seven percent. AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin (Photo credit should read LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)

XiAn was also a place I have been to, but no matter how many time you go the Terra-Cotta Warriors are still amazing. These Warriors were built more than 2000 years ago to guard the tomb of the first emperor of China, Qing Shi Huang. When I visited there with my parents, the tour guide told us a story, there was once a white guy clayed himself and went inside stand by all the Terra-Cotta Warriors to pretend he is also one.
That sounds fun.

BeiJing was our first stop, and perhaps the hardest days for me. Climbing up the Great Wall almost killed me there, for someone that haven’t done any sports after highschool, that was toooooooooo much. I was climbing with my roomate michael the whole time, we never made to the top though.I have been to the forbidden city, great wall, and Tiananmen Square with my parents before, but it was still fun because this time it was with friends. Although the burning sun was horrible, I hate sunlight, and that was just way too much sunlight that week. We also visited the Birds Nest, a stadium built for 2008 Olympics.A pretty interesting event happened after we leave there, you know. We then went to some kind of snack street, and someone on the bus ate scorpions, I forgot who sorry.

Beijing, China at the Imperial City north gate.