So tonight we went across the river, the the opposite side to The Bund, to go up the tallest tower in Shanghai. The lift is apparently very fast, although you wouldn’t know that other than the lift info sign, and your ears that feel like you’ve just taken off in an aeroplane. We bought our tickets online via trip.com and this allowed us to skip the queues waiting to buy tickets.
The pictures below should our incredible speed of ascent, and us reaching the 118th floor. (The speed coming down was a little slow, go figure how gravity works.)
The 118th floor was busy, as usual at almost every tourist spot. Getting to the windows to get a picture or two wasn’t that easy. Disappointingly, there were no Shanghai Tower staff to keep people moving, so people having a conversation on their phone, or just sitting at the window having a chat with their friend, while not actually looking out, was frustrating.
However, we did see another set of stairs which took us up to the 119th floor which was less packed and we were able to get some better shots. The shots at nighttime behind glass are always difficult, and we couldn’t get our phones directly onto the glass and point the right was to get the pictures we wanted. (Photo tip, put your phone directly on the glass and you won’t get shadows.)
