China’s economy has grown at a rate of about 10 percent a year for the last two decades. Over those 20 years, Shanghai, the country’s largest city, has experienced a remarkable transformation.
My brother lives in Shanghai. While it’s a well-known, very “international” city, he’s explained to me that much of what you’re used to thinking of as “Shanghai” didn’t exist a decade or so ago. It was hard for me to imagine until I saw these two pictures.
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10 of the Most Beautiful Bridges in the World | Flavorwire
Holiday travel will bring millions of people back and forth across bridges over the next few days. Most of them, we’ll be honest, are boring, pedestrian ones that barely deserve notice. Seen from many a car and bus window, I-95’s span across the Delaware River gets a nod for height and length, but offers only views Delaware and New Jersey’s grim industrial decay. So, in other words, nothing to write home about. On the opposite end of the spectrum: the 10 striking feats of engineering combined with picturesque locations that we’ve compiled after the jump.
-Wilson Dizard, Flavorwire
Photo: Nanpu Bridge | Shanghai
10 Best River Cruises | Frommers
All the major rivers of Europe are mentioned here - the Seine, Rhine, Danube and Rhone - as well as those in more far flung places like Vietnam (Mekong) and China (Yangtze). Oh, and of course the Nile.
