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Walking Shanghai is not without its obstacles. Sidewalks are often crowded not only with other pedestrians, but with bicycle parking lots, vendors and their carts, card players, laundry strung between doors and trees and motorcycles and bicycles zooming up and down the sidewalks as though they were extensions of the streets. But it is really only in walking that you’ll get a chance to discover aspects of Shanghai you would otherwise miss from a speeding taxi or a tour bus: that vegetable market teeming with local housewives – scene that are themselves rapidly disappearing from today’s Shanghai. The best way to see Shanghai, is on foot.

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