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Shanghi Part II - Seriously, Pack a Map

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3/7/2016 I had an entire free day in Shanghai.  Did I sleep in, have breakfast in my pajamas and watch the city rise up through the fog?  No!  I was on the metro by 7:30 heading for a hastily booked bicycle tour.  I highly recommend a bicycle tour for a number of reasons.  You can cover more ground.  You get a bit of a workout.  You learn how traffic works.  I could go on.   We managed to do the following: Visit a park, have a Kung Fu lesson, visit a Buddhist temple, peddle through a wet market, have breakfast on the street, go through old town, and have a home visit in a tiny house and survived to tell all about it! French colonial housing turned housing for Communist officials, now housing multiple families.  Mass musical dance/shaking instruments/group awesomeness.  These folks were out early, moving and shaking, literally.  Water painted Chinese characters. One of many tai chi gatherings in the park.  Note: there is ta...