Discovering: Pudong

Only recently, we discovered a few new places in Pudong (the other side of the Huangpu River) and just cannot imagine we've lived in Shanghai for the last 9 years and only managed to really explore these places.

I'm talking about the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum and the Century Park which is just adjacent to the museum.

There were just too many things to see at the Museum that we didn't get to see them all in the few hours we were there. Since then we've been back a couple times to watch the iMax shows. The kids were just running around wanting to touch and try everything but didn't know what to touch and try first!After the museum, we decided to find our way to the Century Park and managed to get there in time for the Musical Fountain to start. We'd promised the kids a weekend before that they can go into the fountain this time. So it was the perfect ending to our day at the museum.

Really cool places which we will definitely frequent some more on the weekends.

Shanghai Sculpture Space

We just discovered recently this place called Shanghai Sculpture Space and were impressed at how big the place was and well-maintained it was. Above all, we were allowed on the grass!

When we arrived, the kids immediately were running around looking at each piece of sculpture scattered around the lawn. They kept asking: "What is this?" or "What is that?" As there was also a little hill (more like a mound), they decided to roll down the slope while at the same time singing the song from The Wiggles titled: "Rolling Down the Sandhill". They enjoyed themselves that they kept telling us not to go home yet.

We had lunch at a nice restaurant called BECA Cafe and with the clientele they had that day (Valentine's Day), it felt like we were in Europe. Just interesting to be in Shanghai but to be in a place that didn't feel like you are in Shanghai...

There are some sculptures inside the buildings, too, but some were a bit 'too scary' for Audrey that she kept wanting to find a way out. There were also some design studios inside the buildings around the park and it would be interesting to have an office there. Unfortunately, it is for us, a bit out of the way. We're more used to being in downtown.