We flew China Air from Xian to Shanghai. Jan was not feeling well so we dropped her and our luggage off at our hotel. This hotel was ok but its location was inconvenient especially to our Lisa Pearls desired destination. Beds were the typical Chinese hard beds and Margie volunteered for the roll-away which was even worse. BUT she only had to sleep on it two of the 4 nights because she spent two nights with me at the Xiasha ZUFE campus hotel. Our Apartment/hotel beds are hard but not as hard as the rollaway.
Back to Shanghai - First tourist spot to visit was the Jade Buddha temple, which has 2 famous jade statues of Buddha in their temple – unfortunately you couldn’t take pictures. Our guide told us that during the Cultural Revolution a lot of religious places and religious artifacts were destroyed, so the monks put the statues in a box and labeled it “Statue of Mao” which helped them survive that anti-religious period. Clever!
