On the 22nd of October the wake-up call was
organised for 7:30 am with an 8:30 meet time in the lobby, after which we took a normal and boring 1 hour ride to the science and technology museum in Shanghai. Huang Lao shi and I wanted to watch a 20 min 4D movie named “panda go wild” and weren’t able to buy tickets as we needed WePay (a special Chinese paying system). So we asked a fellow tourist (a Chinese man) to help us book the tickets and sadly they were booked out. After this we went to an illusion tech based invention sector where Huang Lao shi tried the floating bike and we tried many different games. Then we had run out of time and went back to the meeting spot set by the tour guide. From there we got on the bus and traveled to the underground shopping mall which was an hour drive away.
When we got there we went to the KFC and had lunch. There I ordered an ice cream float - when I got my order I sat down and took the lid off the float and tried eating the ice cream. The cup slipped and it fell all over my white shirt and shorts. Luckily I had spare clothes I could change into. Afterwards we went to shop around the fake / copied item stores. There we bargained a lot, for all sorts of items and got shouted at, as well as chased. One of us tried to bargain but started with a too high price and tried to go lower than the price they started at. This made the shopkeeper mad and he shouted at them “You joking price, get out my store, you bad girl, you bad girl”.
After the underground shopping mall we went
to the oriental Pearl towers. Which was 30 mins away on bus. There we waited
for the tour guide to gets tickets and in that time we took some photos out
side the tower. Then we entered the tower and window shopped the expensive
souvenir shops inside. After we lined up to take the lift to the 269th floor to
the viewing deck where we took lots of photos and after 20 mins went down a
level to the under viewing deck. Where the outer circle had a glass wall and
floor and could see all the way down to the bottom. There we did the Nutbush on
the glass floor and I got an ice cream. From there we went back to the bottom
and looked around a small store called “Mumu So”. After we got on the bus we
head to the restaurant for dinner. 
On our way there we ordered some very special bubble
tea called “Hey Tea”. As we were running early, we decided to go to
the supermarket near by. There we bought lots of snacks for our planned journey
the next day. After buying many snacks we went back to our meeting point where
the tour guide had already got us our bubble tea. Then we had dinner at a very
spiced restaurant made to look like an old Chinese village with cherry blossom trees.
The restaurant's name was “an lian Tao Hua yuan” which means “love secretly in
the Peach Blossom Valley”.There we had noodles, many types of chicken and pork,
as well as many other dishes. From there we went to an acrobatic show which was
15 mins away.
When we got there we took more photos outside the
arena. Then headed into the show and as it was called “ China’s No.1 circus
world” it was amazing and spectacular so I won’t give any spoilers for people
that come on the next trip. Then we headed back to our hotel and packed all our
stuff ready for tomorrow and went to bed.
Daksh Gupta
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