The plan ride left both me and Brian a bit tired (waking up at 6:30am didn't help eitherafter 2 flights that took about 20 hours) since neither of us really got more than an hour of sleep. We landed at Shanghi's airport and went through customs. As we waited for our bags to arrive we watched a drug/bomb sniffing dog point out a black suitcase (the dog looked like a mini irish setter). Both backpacks made the journey here but it seems the sleeping bag didn't... apparently my curse is still going strong (seems whenever I go to a foreign country I lose a bag. In Egypt, the airport lost my bag for 2 weeks). We gave them the details and moved on. The next problem was with declaring the goods. Brian sent me through the 'nothing to declare' line while he went to declare our radios. I went through without a hitch but had to go back so I could sit with security while Brian went to the post office to send the radios home. By this time I was feeling like crap. We called the hostel to get directions and jumped on the shuttle bus. When we got off the shuttle and were swarmed by people showing us pamplets for hotels. We waded through and managed to get onto the right metro line. We stumbled to the hostel and slept till 4pm the next day.
We went out looking for an ATM as soon as we woke up. The first thought that crossed my mind when we stepped out was 'Thats weird. I've never seen fog out at 4pm... whoa wait. Is that smog?... I feel dirty'. It was annoying trying to find an ATM. Some ATMs will take some friggin cards but the majority would only take chinese cards.
The economy here seems a bit lower than the USA's so we think we'll do ok here. The plan is to stay in Shanghi until the end of the month and then we have a week to get ourselves to Tibet before our visa runs out.
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-K
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