Sometimes, the best trip is just staying at home, exploring
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Warmer. Colder. Warmer. Colder. The impossible dilemma. You could cherish the winter spirit and drudge through mounds of frozen snow with arms clutching your sides. Or, bring out the rebel within you and visit somewhere sunny all-year-round. The third option of course is to forgo the decision entirely and stay here, in Shanghai.
Most dismiss the notion of “vacationing” where you live as either a lack of funds, or pure laziness. Yet, how often do you explore the city anyway?
As your legs navigate the maze of brick-layered streets, merchants’ yells permeate the overflowing marketplace and huge crates of vegetables began to appear. Pickled cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, radish and the list goes on. On the ground below a man pours out a pile of waste corn kernels and it and other birds dive down to earth to make sure they get first choosing. Progressing further down the market’s sea of people, you arrive upon rows of billboards.
Blinking, shining, blinding, the billboard population rival that of the teeming shoppers around you. Fine scrolls of silk and cloth are laid in pyramids in textile shops and fiery red Chinese lanterns shine proudly in the dimming light. Plumes of exhaled smoke remain rampant in the hubbub of mismatched scarves and thick fur coats.
Woks clang hard against the sides moving food stalls. Vendors wrestle over the blazing air with ringing shouts and slamming bells.
As your eyes dance, along with the flaming woks, snaking lines begin to form and sidewalks become packed with busy commuters squeezing their way through the sudden flood. Fleeing, you once again submerge yourself in the cracked, brick streets. Perched upon a power line, a pigeon watches you from above. After a hasty escape under a bird’s watchful eye, a gushing wave threatens to flood your vision.
Collections of skyscrapers were gleaming masterpieces during the night, a beacon in the heart of an ever-thriving megacity.
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