The Yuyuan Gardens are a big traditional Chinese garden in the middle of the old part of Shanghai. All the buildings in this area are the traditional style, it feels like you've walked into a Kung Fu movie!
We saw a man preparing tea leaves. It's different to the stuff that comes in teabags at home, it's green tea that is basically just the fresh leaves that have been worked in a bowl for a while.
This is what the leaves look like to start with:
This is the leaves being prepared:
They then put the leaves into a drink bottle add boiling water and sip it all day.
The Yuyaun Gardens are beautiful and took us a few hours to find our way through.
Chinese Gardens are created to create lots of different areas and views. It's very hard to keep you sense of direction as there are hidden paths and areas everywhere.
It was very uplifting and peaceful place, right in the middle of a huge city.
We then went to the second highest buiding in Shanghai, the Jin Mao Tower and went up to the observation Deck on the 88th floor. That's 341 metres above the ground! Two things are obvious from up there. Shanghai is very big and very smoggy.
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