The Bund (Shanghai)

The Bund is one of the most characteristic places of Shanghai and its photos appear in most guides and websites about the city. It is the promenade next to the river where most of the foreign companies settled after the Opium Wars and the first mad rush into China´s market and it seems to split this area into the old city and the new city. I arrived at the Bund from Nanjing Road, so I was facing the area of Pudong, built around during the nineties to encourage business. The view is breathtaking as you can see the highest sky-scrapers (which, as most things Chinese, have a little Chinese twist ... more

Been to this place few years ago... A very very nice place with fast moving pace... Everyone on this street seems very fashionable. The tour guide told me women in Shanghai are willing to save all their money on meals just to get branded wears and at the same time go on diet. The whole street along Shanghai Bund is filled with colonial type of building. Great historical architecture being one of the richest collection of art deco architecture in the world, housing most of the important buildings such as the banks and the consulates. Every one of the building are still very well maintained ... more