Shanghai sojourn

I recently spent six days in Shanghai, flying there on the 2nd day of Raya. I visited the Malaysian Pavilion at the World Expo (I won't comment about it except that everything else asides, we do get lots and lots of visitors, and perpetual long queues just to get inside the pavilion).It rained the first three days I was there and getting to and from the Expo was quite a hassle that I was just not bothered to visit many pavilions. Was glad I had a privileged tour of the Chinese Pavilion though. That was something else!

A day's outing to the heritage town of Zhouzhang with its ancient canals was most pleasant. Then onwards to Suzhou with its many lovely gardens.Shanghai was very impressive - clean and orderly despite the overwhelming crowd (17 millions inhabitants) but the haze of polluted air crowning the city and miles to the next cities around it was just too much. And upon my return home I finally succumbed to the exposure to the millions of people at the Expo and am now down with flu and cold! What misery!