Saturday, 3rd March 2012
Today our adventure entailed getting to the Maglev Train station; we wanted to take a ride to the Shanghai Airport. It was raining when the shuttle dropped us at the Bund, so we hopped in a taxi and thanks to the translation sheet Princess gave us we were driven to the station which is in the Pudong area.
Why did we want to go to the airport....just so that we could ride in the Maglev train.....It was only going to take us 7 mins each way... so why not?
Magnetic levitated Train – this is the world’s first commercialized high-speed magnetic transportation system. The whole MAGLEV Line runs only 7 minutes for 30 kilometers from Pudong International Airport to Longyanglu metro station, giving the passengers a high speed experience. The train reaches an exciting maximum speed of 430 km/h in just a few minutes and then has to start to slow so that it can stop by the time the 7 mins are over.
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| Inside Maglev Train |
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| Train at the Airport |
We were all done soon after 10 and caught a slow train to the shopping areas. Bought nothing and caught the shuttle back to the ship well before final boarding time.
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