Oriental Pearl Tower

The Oriental Pearl Tower is one of the most iconic places in the Pudong area of Shanghai mainly due to the fact that it's one of the tallest skyscraper in Shanghai. It is also located opposite to The Bund. On the second day of my Shanghai trip, we paid the Pearl Tower a visit at night! Truth to be told, I had no idea what it was before I went on this trip haha! But now, it is one of the places I think of when I think of Shanghai. In fact, whenever we were on our bus trips, this tower is always really noticeable because of its height.

When entering the lift, we found out that the lift will bring us up 260 floors. My group was jokingly saying that this must be the worst place to be at for those who are claustrophobic and afraid of heights. The night view of Shanghai definitely is something to see. The colourful lights, tall buildings and the cold wind we experienced up there is something we will nvr forget. If I remember correctly, it was about 10 degrees at night. Moreover, the fact that we were 260 stories up made the wind even stronger haha!

 

These photos definitely don't do the night view justice. The problem with going to places like this at night is that you won't be able to capture nice photos. Oh well, it definitely wouldn't have been as pretty in the morning so I'm glad we went at night(: Oh! Did I forget to mention that the floor was transparent as well? It allows you to see what's beneath your feet! So here's me being fearless and sitting down on the floor hohoho

 

The shape of the tower is actually in a circle so we all were just walking around it. Jo and I got lost so many times cause everywhere looked the same haha! All we see are colourful lights so being the blur ppl that we are, we spent quite some time getting back to our original spot.

After that, we went back down and entered some sort of a mini musuem. This musuem presents the trasition of Shanghai throughout the years. It's similar to the wax museum we have in Singapore in Chinatown. It probably won't appeal to those who aren't interested in the history of Shanghai though. Still kinda cool learning about the history of the country that we were visiting. After all, it's a cultural exchange programme(:

 

 

 

 

 

Hahahahahahaha ok there were funny mirrors at one section which makes your body look all weird. There are other places to go to other than the museum. Of course there were souvenir shops, dining places, you know the typical things you find at a tourist attraction.

 

Well that's about it! Till the next time folks (:

"After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies."

Samuel Rutherford