Suna in Wonderland

Living in a big city is surely convenient in many ways but periodically you start to get sick of it, at least for me… Of course China surely has many places to see  nature, but  when it comes to arranging long distance trips laziness emerge and try to negotiate.

After long negotiation, Joop and I decided to go to a little mountain (about 99m above sea level) called “Sheshan”, situated at Songjiang area. Considering the distance,  easy transportation (metro line 9 “Sheshan station”) and the fact that it’s still a mountain, it was perfect place for us.!

So, Saturday morning, sky was clear. After nice breakfast, we were headed to out of the house. Then…….suddenly it started to rain with thunders!! What the….

49% of our mind said, 'Let’s stay at home and we can go tomorrow' 51% said ' let’s just go and see what happens. Finally, we decided to go!

Fortunately when we arrived at Sheshan, it was dry and even could see such a blue clear sky. Temperature was perfect for hiking and there weren’t much of tourist which helped us to enjoy our quiet times.

Sheshan is divided into 2 parts. East Sheshan and West Sheshan. It used to be one mountain but divided in 1980, due to building highway. However it’s possible to visit both sides in one day. Once got out of the metro station, we took bus (no.92) and got off at Forest Park. It took us about 10min to get there via bus.

Get off @ Forest Park for East Sheshan & Sheshan for West Sheshan is Sheshan

Both part had nice features ,which gave us no time to get bored. We started from East part and ended at West part. East Sheshan has nice quiet national forest park, survival game area and camping space, on the other side, West Sheshan has catholic church and the oldest china astronomical observatory.

Catholic Church built in 1920, was even before China Communism

Astronomical observatory (Enterence 12RMB) Can see cool 3D movie and old devices for observing stars

After surrounded by nature for about 4 hours, though legs are  shaking and stomach is crying out loud, but I felt pleasant satisfaction.

Practicing Kungfu @ Bamboo Forest

@ East Sheshan

Pagoda

Around the Sheshan, there are many other interesting places. There are sculpture park, happy valley (amusement park), golf course and fake beach.

@ Front of Sculpture Park. Thanks to rain, I've never seen this clear blue sky in Shanghai!

Definitely nice place to spend weekend! I will surely visit again when I crave for nature.Now I am recharged with green energy and ready to live Shanghai city for a while