http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardSELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 6086) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 25 Jan 2010 0:55:00 GMTgo2chttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/shanghai-zoo/As the second largest zoo and one of the ten best ecological zoos in China, Shanghai Zoo has a total area of 743,000 square meters (184 acres), with an exhibition area of 47,237 square meters (12 acres). Situated near Shanghai Hongqiao International Ai rport, Shanghai Zoo is home to more than 6,000 animals including about 620 species. There are indigenous animals like the giant panda, golden m and the South China Tiger, and foreign animals that are introduced from other parts of the world, such ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 659) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 22 Jan 2010 6:15:00 GMTluboleehttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/bar/judy-too/Since 1993 Judy's Too is the original party bar on Mao Ming Lu (in 2004 moved to Tongren Lu). It is traditional and yet untraditional and always packed with a cross section of Shanghai knowing how to have fun. Being Shanghai's longest-running and hugely successful nightspot, Judy's always pulls in a crowd of people looking to dance the night away and make new friends. Behind the famed red French doors, Judy's sports a mural of Old Shanghai with ladies and gents enjoying pints. Street lamps exude...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2008) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 17 Jan 2010 19:52:00 GMTgo2chttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/shanghai-wild-animal-park/It is one of China's biggest wild animal parks and covers an area of 153 hectares. There are over 200 rare species and over 10,000 animals from all over the world, including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros and hunting leopards. Some indigenous animals under special protection include giant pandas, golden ms, south-china tigers, and Asian elephants and many others. The Shanghai Wild Animal park is divided into two areas: one for walking, and one which is accessible to buses. There is a herbivor...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 688) AND (ServiceType = 34) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 16 Nov 2009 1:44:00 GMTzapatashttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/bar/zapata%27s/Zapatas is one of the main drinking venues for thirsty expats in Shanghai. It is a Mexican restaurant by day, and Cancun-style party venue by night, with bar-top dancing, and a huge outdoor garden! The first place in Shanghai to introduce 'Ladies Night', with free margaritas for girls till Midnight every Wednesday, and also one of the rare places with party music that appeals to all crowds, and different drink/food/party specials every day of the week....]]>Sun 28 Jun 2009 20:10:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/50-moganshan-road-art-gallary/Sun 28 Jun 2009 20:06:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/fuxing-park/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1466) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 28 Jun 2009 18:38:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/pudong-special-economic-zone/ The Pudong District of Shanghai lies near the center of the city, east of the Huangpu River, which divides the city into two halves. Pudong literally means Pu east, the Pu being the Huang (Yellow) Pu River, or the Huangpu, as it is most commonly written (the western half of the city, Pu west, is Puxi). Shanghai is divided into 18 administrative districts, of which Pudong is the largest, comprising some 520 square kilometers. Pudong New Area did not arise out of the blue, as it were, but is par...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1708) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 28 Jun 2009 0:28:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/oriental-pearl-tv-tower/Dongfang Mingzhuta, or Pearl of the Orient Tower, is a 468-meter-high communications tower, making it the highest tower in Asia, and the third-highest tower in the world. Pearl of the Orient Tower is located in Shanghai's Pudong Park in the financial district of Lujiazui, on the edge of Pudong District, just across the Huangpu River from the Bund. The tower is located - on a north-south axis, roughly - in between Shanghai's two downtown Huangpu River bridges, the Yangpu to the northeast and the ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5482) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 27 Jun 2009 9:12:00 GMTAnthonyhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/dongtai-lu-antique-market/Dongtai Lu Antique Market, located in Dongtai Road in the Luwan District of Dongtai, a suburb of Shanghai, is a renowned outdoor market where one can find many antiques (most are said to be fake!), yet one is inclined to forgive the vendors at this very special old flea market for any fakery, because Dongtai Lu is the only remaining flea market in the Shanghai area that is still devoted to selling antiques, however genuine they may or may not be. Dongtai Lu Antique Market has character; here, a...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2309) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 22 Jun 2009 0:04:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/yangpu-bridge/Yangpu Bridge, in the downtown Shanghai area - and sister bridge to Nanpu Bridge, which was completed only two years earlier than Yangpu Bridge, both bridges built to ease the traffic over the Huangpu River in the heart of the city - was finally completed and opened to traffic in October 1993. Yangpu Bridge is understandably a source of immense engineering pride for the Chinese state, it being one of the longest cable-stayed suspension bridges in the world, with its longest span of 602 meters (i...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1366) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 21 Jun 2009 21:10:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/nanjing-road/Shanghai's - and, in fact, China's - premier shopping street, a 3-mile-long stretch of Nanjing Road, starts at the Bund in the east and ends, in the west, at the junction of Jingan Temple Metro Station (at the bottom of Nanjing Road) and Yan'an West Street. This seemingly endless stretch of Nanjing Road attracts hundreds, if not thousands, of fashion-seeking, bargain-hunting shoppers from around the world, daily. For visitors to Shanghai, Nanjing Road is an absolute must-see, on par with a visi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 30) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 20 Jun 2009 12:42:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/jade-buddha-temple/Shanghai's Yufo Chan Si, or Jade Buddha Temple (literally Jade Buddha Chan Temple, the Chan (aka Zen) being a reference to the Chan Buddhism sect of Mahayana Buddhism, the other Mahayana sect being Shin (Pure Land) Buddhism, not to be confused with Shinto, or the ancient religion of Japan that predates Buddhism's spread to Japan, though the name itself is a composite term - Shin (Way of the Gods) and to (to do), i.e., to follow the path of the gods - ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1625) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCFri 29 May 2009 17:50:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/huangpu-river-cruise/At 97 kilometers, the Huangpu is the longest river that passes through the city of Shanghai. The Huangpu (Yellow Bank) River divides Shanghai into two sections: Pudong in the east, and Puxi in the West. A significant branch of the Huangpu, also in Shanghai, is Suzhou Creek, formerly called the Wusong River. The Huangpu averages a width of some 500 meters as it snakes its way through Shanghai, with an average depth of 11 meters. It is also the source of most of Shanghai's drinking water, after it...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 27) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 19 Apr 2009 2:09:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/yuyuan-garden/Yuyuan Garden, located in the center of Shanghai's Old Town and next door to Mandarin Gardens Bazaar, is considered one of the the city's finest, most lavish Chinese gardens. A traditional private Chinese garden park, Yuyuan Garden is replete with beautiful pavilions (it has some 30 Ming (CE 1368-1644) and Qing (CE 1644-1911) Dynasty pavilions), lotus ponds, stone bridges and - of course - rock formations. The garden park was built in typical Suzhou style (i.e., the city of Suzhou in Jiangsu Pro...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5746) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 18 Apr 2009 19:13:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/jing-an-temple/Jing An Temple (Jing'an Temple, by Pinyin Chinese convention) was originally built in CE 247 near the stretch of Suzhou Creek that passes through Shanghai proper (a 24 kilometer stretch of Suzhou Creek is located inside Shanghai proper, while the stretch of the creek that runs through greater Shanghai measures 54 kilometers), in the then Kingdom of Wu (CE 229-280) - and thus before Shanghai itself was founded - during the Three Kingdoms (CE 220-280) period (the other two kingdoms being ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1365) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 11 Apr 2009 22:22:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/the-bund/The Bund corresponds to the wharf area along the western bank of the Huangpu River, which was once a part of the so-called International Settlement area of Shanghai controlled by foreign forces during a period that stretched from the final chapters of China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing (CE 1644-1911) Dynasty, through to the middle of WWII, when the Japanese, who had occupied much of this part of China at the time, forced the other foreign forces out.* Shanghai International Settlement repre...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2217) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 5 Nov 2008 3:49:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/shanghai-museum/What a surprise this place is.You'd never guess that the rather drearily titled Municipal History Museum beneath the Oriental Pearl Tower provides such an wonderful and imaginative experience.Some people find it more fun than the tower itself, certainly it provides a great contrast between the modern Shanghai seen from the Tower, and the experience of old Shanghai below it. Of course, Shanghai does have an exciting and interesting history.Here in the basement of the Oriental Pearl Tower the ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5858) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 13 Oct 2008 1:53:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/shanghai-circus-world/Looking at Shanghai Circus World from the outside, you wouldnt necessarily think that it contained a circus. It looks more like a giant golf ball than a traditional circus, but appearances can be deceiving. Covering a massive 2,2500 square kilometers, it has long held the accolade of China's number one circus. So whats the story behind this strange, glittering domeof fun? The complex is situated on Gonghe Xin Lu Road, and integrates traditional circus acts, acrobatics, magic, dancing and musi...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 29) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCMon 13 Oct 2008 1:40:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/shanghai-grand-theatre/Located on People's Square in the heart of the city, the Shanghai Grand Theatre is a hub of art and culture. It was opened in 1998 and occupies an area of 2.1 hectares. It faces People's Boulevard to the south, Huangpi Bei Lu to the west, and the Shanghai Municipal Building to the east. With its unique architectural style, the theatreis one ofShanghai's most iconic buildings. It was designed by French architect Jean-Marie Charpentier in a new style combining Eastern and Western flavor...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 1954) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 8 Oct 2008 2:43:00 GMTcarlonseiderhttp://www.chinatravel.com/shanghai/attraction/qibao-ancient-town/Life in Shanghai can sometimes feel a bit like chaos traffic noises, flashing neon, skyscrapers jutting into the air so its good to know about places close by where you can escape the commotion of the city. One such place is Qibao Ancient Town, about 18 kilometers from downtown Shanghai. Wandering the streets, its easy to forget that one of the worlds biggest, noisiest cities lies just a short distance away. Qibao is steeped in history. The town was built about a thousand years ago during t...]]>