Shanghai Maglev!

Finally found an overpass that's close to the maglev rail. It's somewhere in the middle of the track (which takes only seven minutes from Longyang station to the Pudong Airport), so it must have been going at maximum speed (about 40 km/h).

Rough Ride

Stopped by "Home Sweet Home" today, a great initiative for the physically challenged. This program provides housing, training and job placement. Let me know if you'd like more info. All participants are from outside of Shanghai and previously lived on the street. Their website is off line at the moment, but more on that later.

Not there anymore...
Leveled...

After that I biked through a huge piece of land that had just been leveled. On Google Earth there's still a village there, but today it was completely bare with traces of foundations and bricks everywhere. Not sure what the plan is.

I then wanted to make it to the next village but had to make my way through hills of garbage, mud and bricks only find out that a small bridge was damaged. So I continued the bumpy ride through bushes and eventually came upon a field where a local farmer thought she saw a ghost when this foreigner came out of nowhere. She raised her eyebrows when I explained I was doing this for exercise...

Then while under the Maglev line when taking a picture of the boats, I amazingly got the 430 km/hr train in my picture. A bit of luck (I had tried in vain before), I admit, although I could hear it come in the distance while I was preparing to shoot.