Jakey Jake

Friday 28th May
We went to explore some famous garden just around the corner from the hotel room. It was pretty nice with the skyscrapers in the background but realy i just longed for some starbucks coffee so i didnt stick around too long and decided to explore the cty on my own. I headed around the bund and down the main street looking for a foreign language bookshop, i really wanted this carl jung book, but again no luck whatsoever im just going to have to wait for that one. Still it let me have a good wonder around the city and see what they had on offer. If it wasnt so damn smoggy im sure it would be a very prety city. i wanted to check out the pearl of the orient building, it the strange looking one with the three sprheres hanging on three large concrete cylinders. THe only way to get there was to cross the river, and the best way to do that is near the top of the bund, there is a little rail carriage system thing that takes you through a tunnel in some weird light extravaganza thing… quite bazaar. On the other side i foud the tower and paid my 50 yeun to get just below the top. Once up there i realised what a waste of money it was because the only thing i could see was the road below and i could just make out some shadows of other buildings that the smog was covering from the view.