Shanghai, located in the middle of China’s eastern coastline, the biggest multi-culture metropolis in China, attracts millions of visitors home and aboard. I always dreamed of experiencing this fascinating city personally and my dream of Shanghai came true at 1st Dec 2007.
Visits to the Nanpu Bridge, the Bund, and Nanjing Road were included in our itinerary that day. Led by the guider, we headed to our first stop: Nanpu Bridge. On our way, we found that buildings in Shanghai soared fairly high, especially the Oriental Peal TV Tower, 468 meters in height, and the Jin Mao Building, 420.5 meters in height, famous as two landmarks of Shanghai. Driving about ten minutes after passing them, we still felt that we were closely below them. And then we reached the Shanghai Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, China’s first cross-river artificial sightseeing tunnel, which is 646.7 meter in length. Modern high technologies are applied to create a fascinating world full of various images made up by colorful lights and the high-fidelity stereo system match to the change of the pictures. It took us 10 minutes to get through it by cable car.
After a few minutes, we were close to the Nanpu Bridge, the first bridge connecting the west and east part of the Huangpu River. Opened to traffic in November 1991, it is a cable-stayed bridge with a center span of 423 meters between the two main pylons and its total length is 8346 meters. Its bridge approach on the Puxi side is really distinctive, which is helical rounding in three circles to the main bridge. Interestingly, the bridge approach was designed according to a pupil’s idea to minimize the room taken by it. People also can get onto the main bridge by elevator, opening from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. But we chose to drive through the bridge approach to enjoy the charm of the whole bridge. It was fairly amazing.
To be continued
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