Includes FREE planning and background information. You can't see the Great Wall from space, but you'd have a job missing Shanghai. One of China's most massive and vibrant cities, Shanghai is heading places the rest of China can only fantasise about. Somehow typifying modern China while being unlike anywhere else in the land, Shanghai is real China, but perhaps just not the real China you had in mind. In a doddery land five millennia old, Shanghai feels like it was born yesterday. When you've had your fill of Terracotta Warriors, musty palaces and gloomy imperial tombs, submit to Shanghai's debutante charms. You won't find ancient temples or hoary monuments, but instead you'll discover a funky blend of art deco architecture, bullet-fast Maglevs, skyrocketing buildings, French patisseries, jazz, European streetscapes, charming 19th-century l¨«l¨°ng (alleys) and cocktails on the Bund.