Day 5: Shenzhen to Shanghai [China no. 5]
[Note: Read a more chronological account of Day 5 on calpolymbatrip.com]
Day five marked our final day in Shenzhen and the beginning of our stay in Shanghai. We would visit the rather impressive Yantian Logistics Center as well as an ex-pat residential development before boarding our flight to Shanghai. Both of our official visits were very interesting, though the residential development was quite an experience in contrast to what we had seen so far on the trip.
In comparison to the living conditions the workers we met on our second day had to endure, the units in the ex-pat development were like heaven. At US$1.5-2 million, they were also well beyond attainable for any of the workers, even after several lifetimes of the compensation they most likely received (and indeed, well beyond the grasp of most Chinese citizens based on the per capita income information we received). The development was populated almost exclusively by wealthy ex-pats from Korea, the US, and a few other countries.
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July 11th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Peter, your pictures are amazing. I really enjoyed looking at them and the different captions telling the viewer what was going on at the exact moment. I only wish I could have been there to experience it with all of you. I also like how you used many different camera angles and coloring such as pure black and white to take your pictures. You are really a photography genius that makes me want to have a tenth of the skills you have. Well, as for travelling, I will be heading to New York City on July 26th on the red eye flight to get there in the morning. We are going to concentrate on NYC for now since we are only staying for three nights. I hope soon I will be able to fly out to Boston if you are still there to come and visit and do some catching up. Well, keep posting pictures as you have time, I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us viewers. Take care and I’ll talk to you soon.
July 13th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Thank you for the compliment Paul! I don’t know if you have been passed the site to check out everyone else’s photos, but if not let me know and I’ll email it to you. There are a ton of awesome photos that people took and so far only a handful of people have posted their images. I buckled down today and made a few more posts. I really like writing the captions, but I’m finding that this is taking me quite a while to do.
No sweat about heading to New York — we’ll connect sometime. It turns out that I’m not leaving California until the 23rd now, so I definitely would not be out there when you are in NYC. I’ll probably be slogging through Texas or somewhere in that area around that time!