Clean air is not an issue in Shanghai

 

 

 

Jinmau building the tallest building in Shanghai. The new building next to it will surpass Jinmau in a short time and become the tallest

View of the bund from CityBank tower on the other side of Huangpu River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the old part of Shanghai near Yu Garden.

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Never ending destruction and construction as the old is torn down to make room for the new

Construction methods and saftey is quite different

Night view of the other side of the Huangpu river

 

The old building on the Bund with the new lotus flower building just behind it .

I was surprised to see this building. When i was last in Shanghai two years ago it wasn't there.

 

This is one of the many examples of Artdeco style buildings in Shanghai

I was entertained on Christmas eve by three lovely girls

But the lovely girl who is kissing me is my favourite

Yu garden was first constucted in 1559 by designer Zhang Nan Yuan. "Yu" in ancient Chinese means "pleasure", the garden was thus named.

 

 

 

 

 

The photographys below are from the Humble Administrator's Garden from the beautiful waterside City of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province in South China

 

The Humble Administrator's Garden was originally built in 1509 during the Ming Dynasty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view from the window of my wife's parents home