Gongqing Forest Park

I met with the guys again and we went to Nenjiang Lu Metro and took a taxi to Gongqing Forest Park. The taxi ride cost 15RMB and there are many gates to the park. Also many parks like this cost money to enter which was another 15RMB.

The park was very big and said to be the 2nd biggest in Shanghai. There are many activities here such as hiring rollerskates, horse riding, biking, boating and some fairground rides. It was beautiful weather with a nice breeze so many people were flying kites. There were also many wedding photoshoots.

After a few hours in the park we headed to Yuyuan Gardens to eat xiaolongbao. This famous place has a few choices of price range so we opted for the minimum 50RMB spend. Afterwards we tried to go to the market on Fuyou Lu but it closed quite early which was disappointing.

We chilled out for a bit but noticed the many scams that happen around this station.

Tourists need to be aware of young Chinese people hanging around this metro station. They will strike up a conversation or ask you to take a photo and then try to find out where you are from etc. They will convince you they can take you to a teahouse or something and if you follow them you could be the one ending up with the bill or you could be escorted to a cash point and forced to take money out for them. Please beware!!

So we noticed this American man following these two Chinese girls so Jorge and Joseph wanted to try and help so Joseph asked one of the girls for directions and Jorge and I tried to warn the man of these two. I'm not sure if he believed us or not but we tried our best and left.

We slowly walked to Xintiandi and Joseph helped me sort out my mobile phone (I will write another entry for this). Afterwards we went into Xintiandi Style and had some drinks and in the basement there is an international supermarket with many imported brands which is nice for when you are homesick but the prices can get a little crazy!