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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 08:07
Written by Urbanatomy

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Behold the sights awaiting the East
What's so good about Pudong. Well check this list out:

SWFC
The world’s highest observatory, housing one of the world’s most luxurious hotels, and the world’s highest spa, and highest bar. You want superlatives? This towers over all of your superlatives. Beat that, Dubai.
 
Stupendous Sports Facilities
Astroturf burns are a distant memory for Pudongren, enjoying as they do the Dulwich College Community fields, the Adidas field in Century Park and the new Shanghai Rugby Football Club grounds in Waigaoqiao, where they can feel themselves sink into the soft turf and breathe deep the smell of freshly-cut grass. Bliss.

Century Park
Giving the lie to the claim that Pudong is nothing but a concrete jungle, this sprawling park is Shanghai’s largest
green zone, and you’re actually allowed do park stuff in it like (gasp!) sit on the grass, picnic, jog, have your wedding photos taken…

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Behold the sights awaiting the East
What's so good about Pudong. Well check this list out:

SWFC
The world’s highest observatory, housing one of the world’s most luxurious hotels, and the world’s highest spa, and highest bar. You want superlatives? This towers over all of your superlatives. Beat that, Dubai.
 
Stupendous Sports Facilities
Astroturf burns are a distant memory for Pudongren, enjoying as they do the Dulwich College Community fields, the Adidas field in Century Park and the new Shanghai Rugby Football Club grounds in Waigaoqiao, where they can feel themselves sink into the soft turf and breathe deep the smell of freshly-cut grass. Bliss.

Century Park
Giving the lie to the claim that Pudong is nothing but a concrete jungle, this sprawling park is Shanghai’s largest
green zone, and you’re actually allowed do park stuff in it like (gasp!) sit on the grass, picnic, jog, have your wedding photos taken…

The Maglev
30km in 7 minutes and 30 seconds? Bring. It. On. The smooth magnetic levitation train from Pudong Airport is dizzyingly fast and utterly modern. Wanna feel the future? Step this way.

Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
We do like to be beside the seaside, but here you’re literally under it. Boasting a 155m glass tunnel, you can go nose-to-fin with lionfish, nurse sharks, seals, turtles, moray eels and electric rays. SOA also does educational tours, plus it has superb English-language facilities. The only glitch is their oxygen-sucking admission price: RMB120 for adults, RMB80 for kids. Gulp!

Y’s Table
Some may think to call this place a food court, but it doesn’t do it justice. We think it’s the other way around; Y’s Table has redefined the term. Treat yourself to everything from brick oven pizzas to sushi so fresh it’s still flopping around on your plate. This is arguably the best ‘food court’ in Asia.

The World’s Highest Spa
You’ll feel like the Queen of the Clouds when you’re lounging next to a 20m infinity pool on the 85th floor at Water’s Edge, Park Hyatt, gazing languidly down at the little people on the streets below. Pampering extremists will be in their element as treatments here are not just luxurious but classic and effective. We recommend the City de-pollution facial.

The Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
Notable for offering the polar opposite experience to that which its name suggests (there are no Bund sights to be seen). Despite the fact this surreal gem connects both sides of the city, there is something affectionately daft in its inexplicably space-agey essence that screams “Pudong!” Objections on a postcard please…

Molecular Cocktails
Liquid cocktails? That’s so 2008. Renowned French mixologist Thierry Hernandez has developed a list of ‘molecular’ cocktails exclusively for Jade on 36 Bar. Enjoy everything from a Cosmopolitan ice lolly to rails of fruity gelatinous vodka that you can hoover up with a straw.

China Sex Museum
You won’t find a two-meter-long wooden cock dating from antiquity in Puxi. No sir, not in a million one night stands. Pudong’s Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture is a rebuff to the naysayers who accuse Pudong of being, well, unsexy.

Wild Animal Park
Including drive-through and walk-through safaris (as well as a more traditional zoo area), the number of animals in the park exceeds 10,000 and includes the famed lion-tiger hybrid, the liger, which is “pretty much” Napoleon Dynamite’s favorite animal.

China Pavilion
The iconic red Oriental Crown is set to be the piece de resistance of Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo, and as a showcase for all that is postmodern and international about our beautiful city, of course it stands on the Pudong side.

Shanghai Natural Wild Insect Kingdom
One for the very young (or very un-squeamish), this museum houses an insect corridor, a reptile area, a tropical forest zone, an insect playhouse, an insect classroom and a specimen-making display area. Yicky icky fun.

The Pearl Oriental Tower
If aliens were trying to find their way to Pudong, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower would undoubtedly be their signpost. Uh, for so many reasons – it would look like a home from home, and it’s very big, and pink. But mostly because
it’s the ultimate symbol of ‘modern’ Shanghai.

Science and Technology  Museum
Boasting a 4D theater and an IMAX, this is a super place to take kids, or see how rusty your own high-school science has got. Check out the space-craft exhibitions, performing robots and undersea adventure shows.

Pudong International Airport
Unlike Hongqiao, which feels like you’re boarding prisonships in the sky, Pudong is spacious and seemingly never on standby. The Maglev gets you there in minutes, but if you have the cash take a taxi. Drivers love going to the airport, because only here will ignorance of the speed limit be applauded by their passengers.

Want more?

Pudong Rocks:
Why Puxi Sucks
Only in Pudong
The People of Pudong

Cross-Huangpu stat attack

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