Bridge the World

It's less than a week until I return back to Opera's HQ in Oslo, the time has really been flying by and I can't believe I've been in China for three months already.

Every day has been a new experience, I've met new people, tasted new flavors, gotten to know Chinese traditions, culture and mishabits, and I have been lucky to travel around in China and seen extraordinary places (See pictures).
(Yangshuo)
Last weekend we went to Shanghai (we as in Chiara, me and three friends of mine who are visiting from Norway). We took the night train from Beijing on Friday evening, it was a nice, clean train with decent sleeping compartments, the only minus was the 2 year old kid screaming all night in the bed below me.
(Shanghai)
Shanghai is quite different from Beijing, it is warmer, more modern and people generally speak better English. We ascended the currently tallest (completed) building in China, the 420m tall Jin Mao building, had lunch at the Bund, went on a river cruise on Huang Pu river, and had dinner and a few drinks in the lively Xintiandi area.

I am really glad that I could participate in Opera's "bridge the world" exchange program, and I would definitely do it again. Tokyo next?

-walter-