In my last post I tried to show you a little what the night of Chinese new year is like. This time I want to show you that China didn´t suffer from a massive hangover and that many of our friends here were wrong with the information: Shanghai during Chinese new year is a deserted place.
It is true that last week Shanghai was, relatively spoken, quiet - in the residential areas. Pudong was empty because the area existis mostly of the financial district and many foreigners who live there had left city for the week. On our side of the river (in Puxi), in the back of the French Concession, it was also wonderfully quiet and it almost felt like living in a tranquil villag inside a mega city (with only the odd fireworks explosion kicking us out of bed).
However, even a half empty city of 25 Million still leaves a couple of people around to enjoy a sunny new years day. Paul and I were two of those few left in town and decided to go venture down to the riverside for a walk along the Bund on new years day. The initial idea was to go for a nice quiet stroll as we hoped to have the city all to ourselves. It also seemed like a great opportuntiy of trying out my new wide ankle lens (14-24mm!!) to capture this emptyness ..
Well.. we were proven wrong. Instead of a deserted riverbank my lens quickly filled up with thousands of little ants - all wondering along for their new years stroll.
And so Paul and I went with the flow and dived into this crowd which still is a lot more relaxing than walking along any Xmas market in Germany, simply because we are relatively tall ants and are able to keep our heads free :-)
I invite you to come with us for a stroll on a sunny monday in the new year of the dragon.
Just the three of us .. and a couple of others :-)
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