- 7:30 wake up. Benadryl hangover. still red + itchy.
- breakfast 8:00-9:15. leave hotel.
- Tong Ren Tang - largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine. presentation of history, quality. imperial herbal medicine. individual meeting w/ herbalist. palm reading diagnosis. (>_>;) recommended supplements for kidneys, heat, hormones. totaling $1000s! o_0 (older NZ man in tour group: "Everyone gets [diagnosed & prescribed]. Nobody's perfect. ^^") 10:00-11:30.
- lunch til 1:00.
- Shanghai skyline - CEOs compete for tallest building, so add "toppers" to increase height. eventually turned to threatening symbols and bad feng shui against competition: guns, cannons, even a coffin!
- Shanghai Museum - 1:30-2:30. only 1 hour to see 4 floors!! quickly saw bronze, painting, jade, minorities' art, & furniture exhibits. best part of tour (so much history ^^) & worst part of tour (so little time ><).
- 2:45 drive. (under bridge, feng shui center of city, i think??)
- Tianmai Jade Jewelry Expo Center - met w/ jade carving master artist (kinda smug & smarmy w/ assistants/apprentice). long talk, so boring, sleepy, return to wait on bus.
- dinner at local fast food place. very crowded, long wait, shared table. supposedly the "best xiao long bao in Shanghai." tasty but skin too thick, not delicate enough. also ordered noodles + wonton soup.
- Shanghai Circus World -
- "ERA: Intersection of Time" show - set list. Shanghai acrobats, contortionists, large porcelain bowl tossing/balancing, cup + bowl toss/stack/balance, tricks on ferris wheel w/ giant hamster wheels, flying ribbon aerial acrobatic dance, trampoline tricks, seesaw tricks, motorcycle ball (now w/ 8 bikes!), finale.
Mirror Mirage / Kicking Bowls
Hoop Diving / Snake Girls
Wheel of Life / Jar Juggling
Fire Meteors / Sculpture
Russian Swing & Teeter Board / Trampoline, Russian Bar & Bungee
Forever / Space Motorcycles
- hotel. midnight xiao long bao snack.
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