Between 2011 and 2012 we spent a year in Shanghai. We moved there from Hamburg, when our daughter was just 1.4 years old. I don’t think she remembers much of the adventure, but we still have quite a lot of Shanghai in our lives even now – my parents and my sister live there, so we often discuss their everyday life, Chinese holidays and, every time before calling them, calculate this crazy time difference.

I’ve already posted about the Bund, Huangpu riverside in Shanghai, in Show Your World before, but, of course, it’s impossible to fit all our experiences in just one post, so here’s just another portion of our take on this beautiful city.

Shanghai was a large port and trading city for a very long time, but it grew immensely within the last 20-30 years and it is still growing at an incredible speed. It’s the largest city in China by population and the largest city proper by population in the world! When you’re driving through the city (or I would rather be driven, as the traffic is crazy!), you can’t help but notice building sites at almost every corner. The city is alive, it’s buzzing, it’s pulsating, it really feels like it’s bursting with energy!

Here’s just a glimpse into the great Pearl of the Orient:

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