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My Morning Commute Shanghai

posted on 2009-08-11 - amd.im/8Osc

I'm a little late posting these, but it's been a crazy week. Here's a continuation of the My Morning Commute photos I took.

The next stop in my travels took me to Shanghai, a city that I've been to but really have only been visiting much recently.

What has always stricken me about the city is it's glaring contrast between the modern world and the city's long history. This photo of a modern skyscraper immediately behind a historic office building is one of several scenes that I have come across that really shows that contrast.

Leaving Shanghai is a completely different contrast. Shanghai is in the top 10 largest cities in the world, but when I leave it, it doesn't seem to trail off the way that other large cities do, into a maze of suburbs. Leaving Shanghai often feels like traveling into another world.

Here's a less interesting, but frequent view that I have from the back of whatever vendor's van I'm in. China's freeway system is comprised of more tollways than anywhere else I've seen yet.