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From Brazil San Paulo to Shanghai 魔都!
The path from the airport to the hotel already showed me how Shanghai would surprise me.
What to choose?
Public transportation, taxi, airport shuttle bus, private driver.. You have infinitive ways to go from the airport to the hotel, some are more expensive and comfortable, others more cheap and (a little bit) uncomfortable.
When I arrived, I wasn’t sure how I would go to the hotel. At first, I planned to take a taxi, but I wanted the first experience of using the public transportation, to feel and see more about this new place, the problem were my luggage but I wasn’t with much so I decided to do it (fun fact: I decided after I bought, in the airport, my SIM card, it was a kind of change of plans).
The metro station
If you arrive at Pudong International Airport, will be easy to find the options of transports (the airport has signs indicating the direction you need to follow), so the path until the metro entrance was really easy, no problems. The problem started when I had to buy the metro ticket.
I knew the name and the line that I needed to go, but I didn’t know that I had to select this information at the machine (that I was struggling to understand). After a few failed attempts, I did what every tourist will do in one way or another, I asked.
After a messy conversation with the metro officer, he bought the ticket in the machine for me and helped me to put my luggage in the scan machine (another information that was new to me).
Get in (again)
The airport is not that much close to where I would stay so I took a long time inside the metro, but in one station something happened.
After some words from the driver, everyone inside just got off the metro and others got in, it took me a few seconds to figure out what happened but when I realized that I should get off too, I was pushed back by all the people coming in (imagine how was the situation, I was with two luggages and one heavy backpack trying to go against a lot o
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