Back from our trip to Chongqing, China. Our first trip with Nadia, who is now almost 7 months old. I was paranoid and feared the worst but it was great. Nadia enjoyed it, there were lots of new things to see, lots of people smiling and waving at her. She met my wife's relatives and friends and we got to play the role of proud parents of a cute baby.
Chongqing is amazing. I'm ashamed to confess that I didn't know much about it before the trip. I got to learn and experience it, the sheer size of it (pop. 31 million), the density, everything. It's located at the point where the Yangtze and the Jialing rivers meet and it's a very hilly city with steep streets, endless stairs, funiculars and elevators that get you on streets thirty stories above ground level. There isn't much left of old Chongqing, it's a sea of skyscrapers these days (there's a saying that whenever you turn your back the city has changed). It's an economic powerhouse, expanding and changing like crazy, fueled by the electricity from the Three Gorges Dam (a pretty good documentary is coming up on Discovery Channel about Chongqing and the dam). People, people everywhere. Here are some pictures from our trip.
The last two days of the trip we relaxed in Shanghai, getting spoiled in the highest 5 star hotel in the world, the Jinmao tower. We stayed on the 77th floor.
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