Saturday, February 14, 2009

Shanghai and the Indian connection

Shanghai's major tourist attraction is the Bund. Facing Pudong on the opposite side of the Huangpo river, Bund boasts of several buildings with different architectural styles like Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Art deco among others.

The Indian connection to Shanghai is that "Bund" is the Urdu word for embankment or levee. The word was bought to Shanghai from India by the British. There are lot of small check dams called Bunds across several parts of North India. One interesting fact is that, the Huangpo river currently flows above the level of the roads in the Bund.
Given below are the pictures of Bund and the view of the Pudong skyline as seen from the Bund.







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