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To start with, a very peculiar company....... |
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| Some more of Shanghai Province | |||
South-East of Shanghai Province is Luchaogang |
A fishermans town and port for travels to Putuoshan | ||
| South-Shanghai or Fengxian area | |||
Capital of the Area is Fengxian, with its modern Highschool |
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Rural roads |
And yellow oilseed fields |
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Hard working people |
And friendly eldery people helping us finding the local Fenghuodun or Beacon Towers  |
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| At the coast is Fenxin or Fenxian Bay, with a yearly Kite Festival  |
On April 16, 2005, still being "under construction" | ||
Quite a development, in "Thalassic park" |
With homage to the odd-shaped sea-defense-blocks |
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A beautiful park is taking shape |
along a road lined with animal statues | ||
In the centre is Palmbeach |
A big Hotel | ||
With a beach being constructed |
And used for a fair like arrangement a year later (July 8, 2006)  | ||
| Where one can go on horseback on the mudfields... (April 16, 2005)  |
And later ride a mechanical horse (July 8, 2006) Click on the animation to see full 5 Mb movie  If it does not run in your browser, download by Rght-click>Save link as... Can be played with Quicktime and Windows Media Player Click here for another 5 Mb movie | ||
..that form the actual coastal area.. |
..as well as the entrees to the canals | ||
Some nice Pavillions |
And about four or five villa compounds | ||
With spacious Villa's and appartments |
And surrounded by lts of green | ||
| West, more inside the Ningbo or Hangzhou Bay appears yearly around mid September the famous "Cao Sui" or Tidal Bore at the Qiantang River, a phenomena in which the high-tide rolls in in one massive wave of 3 - 8 meters, 10 - 25 feet high | |||
| Before it arrives, the dam is a good place to make wedding pictures Note the height of the dam w.r.t. the couple  |
And then, in a period of barely 5 minutes, the wave arrives | ||
Flows over the dam |
and engulfes it totally, 3-4 meters, 10-15 feet high | ||
| North of this famous spot is SongJiang, much older than Shanghai | |||
Well knows for its "Fang Da" or square pagoda |
And with a lovely Peacock park | ||
Nearby the big new University is conference Centre "England Leisure Square" with a Dutch Windmill alongside the Shanghai - Hangzhou Freeway,  |
Inside a bar and a peek through the window  | ||
Outside a beach with playing children  |
And a fishing man  | ||
| North of Song Jiang and West of Shanghai is Sheshan mountain | |||
Carrying a church and an observatorium of 1900 |
The Church | ||
Inside the observatorium of 1900 |
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| Nearby the leaning pagoda of Huzhu Baoguang (ca 1100 AD) in the Tianma Mountain Park | |||
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North of Shanghai in the Chiang Jiang or YangTse River is the third biggest Island of China: Chongming | |||
Sailing by Ferry from Shengqiao, past the peers of Bao Gang Steel |
One sees many ferries ferrying between Chongming Island and the Mainland - 1 | ||
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Chongming City reached |
And via Chenhai Highway | ||
A very new Highway |
And still very empty | ||
One reaches the Chongming Wetlands to the East |
A sactuary for migrating birds | ||
Waterbuffalos |
And mankind | ||
Via Xian Bei Port return to Bao Jiang, East of Bao Shan where the Huangpu joins the Chian Jiang |
The costline of Baoshan | ||
The Coastline of Bao Jiang | |||
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