Even with only few hours of sleep (we checked out from the hotel in Manila and went to the airport at 2AM) I tried my best to keep myself awake when the plane landed. Seeing the first foreign land I ever went to in my whole 36 years matters to me most than sleep that time.
A cold early morning wind with 10 degree Celsius temperature met us when we deplane the aircraft. I ran as fast as I can to the waiting bus that will take us to the terminal building, the moment my feet touch the ground. It is already summer in the Philippines and the temperature in Northern Mindanao never reached that mark unless you are inside a fully airconditioned room.
Seeing a lot of taxing aircrafts on the ground means that Pudong is one of the busiest airport in the world. Ranked 21st in 2013 statistics.
After more or less 1km drive the bus took us to the arrival entrance for international flights.
I thought that my yellow luggage has not boarded the plane because we waited for few more minutes for the last batch luggage to reach carousel # 7.
After we all got our luggage, off we went to the immigration.
I'm trying to figure out using Google Translate installed in my mobile phone what those Chinese Characters mean. In random order I'm guessing it says Welcome to Shanghai.
We have no problem at all when we passed the immigration because we're only to stay for 1 week training and our visa allowed us to stay in mainland China for 14 days from the date of entry.
Above is our group. The first batch of trainees for the PAS-DPF Enhancement Training waiting for the service van that will take us to Nanjing, Jiangsu, about 4 hours of land travel from Shanghai.
That's it.... next stop... will be Nanjing...
Great shots from the airport.
ReplyDelete10 degrees is pretty cold! And I think it's spring in China now. Did you manage to see any cherry blossoms? I hope non-English speaking countries would be gracious enough to put English signs so the foreigners wouldn't feel so "foreign" in a foreign land :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your trip. Great shots.
ReplyDeleteYellow is a great color for luggage. Easy to find among all the black luggage.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting for you...I wouldn't have wanted to fall asleep and miss it either.
ReplyDeleteHi!
I'm trying to catch up on your posts after you left me a comment last week while I was out birding most days along with a national birding convention being held in our city. Hope your week ahead is a good one. Thanks for stopping by to leave me a comment.
That was really cold compared here in the Philippines. Great shots by the way.
ReplyDeleteI like your yellow luggage! Definitely easy to find!
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