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We dined at some awesome local places where we had no idea what we was on the menu and no one spoke a spec of english. We would point at other diner's food that we liked the look of and hoped for the best.
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We were walking around and saw a couple of guys wrangling snakes from a rice sack into cages that were already full of snakes. Some of those snakes seemed pretty angry too.
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On the afternoon of our first day we walked to The Bund area. Any postcard of Shanghai will show this city scape.
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No sooner had we arrived and it was time for us to set off again.
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We enjoyed this city very much, and when we get a chance we'll come back here for a visit.