Insight Guides Explore Shanghai (Travel Guide eBook) by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, China
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2019-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Shanghai Botanical Gardens

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Shanghai Longhua Martyrs Cemetery

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Shanghai Botanical Gardens

If you wish to extend your sightseeing, take a taxi 2km (1.2 miles) south from Longhua Martyrs’ Cemetery to the Shanghai Botanical Gardens (Shanghai Zhiwuyuan; 1111 Longwu Road; daily 8am–5pm winter, 7am–5pm summer; charge). This is a rambling expanse of lakes, pine trees and more than 9,000 plants. It’s noted for its bonsai collection, Orchid Garden, medicinal plants and pair of 18th-century pomegranate trees. There’s a memorial temple to Huang Dap, too: the legendary figure who brought the technique of dyeing nankeen cloth to the region.

Food and Drink

1 Ye Olde Station Restaurant

201 Caoxi Road North; tel: 6427 2233; daily 11am–2pm and 4–10pm; $$$

Fine Shanghainese cuisine is served up with a slice of nostalgia in this beautiful former convent. Diners can choose to be seated in the old-world dining room or in one of two restored train cars: an 1899 German model once used by the Empress Dowager or the 1919 Russian beauty that Soong Ching-ling rode around in.

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