The offices are located downstairs as per the norm but are pretty much concrete rooms. The cabling for phone & power have been an afterthought in most of the rooms.
Pick a cable, any cable….After getting one of the points made live, and the router and printer plugged in, everything seemed to work. Well, a few issues with the router, but I sorted them out eventually.I have a feeling most of the cabling etc has come about due to a few professional shows coming throught the venue. The Lion King only left last week.
Tuesday afternoon I had the oppertunity to play tourist, so I caught the metro along Line 2 to the technology district. I train hoped numerous times to explore the areas around the different stations. Train fairs are about 50c AUD per trip. I think we could learn something.
Amongst the places I wandered by were the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum which is like Scienceworks but 3 or 4 times the size. Seems to be a reoccuring theme here. Gotta be big.
The view towards the main city from Century Park and the view over the Park with heaps of highrise living.
All the gardens here are perfectly maintained. I mean everywhere.
Oh and have I mentioned advertising here? You can not escape. It’s in the lifts, both sides of the street, on any free building space and even floating down the rivers on huge video screens.
I found my way up the Oriental Pearl Tower which is the 3rd tallest tower in the world. Remember that thing about must be big.
The other building here is the Shanghai Grand Hyatt which is where i’m heading to tonight for drinks to Cloud 9, the world’s highest bar.
And finally, I was told I had to experience the Bund Tourist Tunnel which travels underneath the Huangpu River. The easiest way to describe it is a sound and light show that you see as you travel in a small pod like vehicle. I’ll post a video of the experience soon.