A day in Expo 2010 Shanghai China (part 1)

After having breakfast this morning, we took a cab to Gate 5 of Expo 2010 site (CNY30).It is weekday (Tuesday) but at 9AM today at the expo, we were was surprised by the hoards of visitors that is already in line before us. The park is to open at 9:30AM, or so we were told. This is the line going to the screening area. They screen all visitors by asking everyone to pass thru a metal detector and inspecting bags.

 

After a little more than an hour after, we finally made it inside and the first thing we looked for are the benches so we can take a rest. It was only 10:30AM but we feel very exhausted already. I wonder how things are if we go here during weekends? I think we were lucky that last Thursday the line wasn't as bad, or perhaps it is due to timing?

 

Minutes later and we started going through the pavilions. We didn't have exact agenda as to where to go but we just followed and instinct based on looks of the structure outside (and of course the length of the line outside the pavilion) when we did our visits. Here are some pictures of the pavilions we saw and visited today (national, theme, corporate, international organizations, etc.):

 

Jordan

 

Yemen

 

Afghanistan

 

Syria

 

Palestine

 

Bahrain

 

Saudi Arabia

 

South Korea

 

Uzbekistan

 

Japan

 

Kazakhstan

 

Tajikistan 

 

Kyrgyzstan 

 

Bangladesh

 

Mongolia

 

Maldives

 

Expo of Expos

 

 

Timor Leste

 

North Korea

 

Lebanon 

 

Iran

 

tired visitors. lol!

 

Asia pavilion

 

Laos

 

 Iraq

 

Vietnam

 

 me at Asia

 

sign that indicates if you fall into this line and you started at this point, waiting time exceed 5 hours!

 

Taiwan

 

Theme pavilions

 

Cambodia

 

 

Indonesia

 

Brunei Darussalam

 

Philippines

 

Again, like last time, there's another performance on-going inside Philippines pavilion (as the pavilion theme is Performing Cities)

 

 

inside Philippines pavilion

 

Thailand

 

Australia

 

 World Exposition Museum

 

 

Pavilion of Footprint

 

Cisco pavilion

 

Space Home

 

State Grid pavilion

 

Oil

 

Coca-Cola

 

martial arts performance

 

PICC

 

Then we had our early dinner in Kungfu, a fast food restaurant inside.

 

As there are a lot of pavilions we visited today, I will be splitting the post in to two parts. You can continue viewing the others from here.