Climbing the Lupu Bridge

Last Saturday while my parents were here, we climbed the Lupu Bridge, one of the two bridges we can see from our apartment that spans the Huangpu River, connecting the Pudong and Puxi sides of Shanghai. The Lupu Bridge is the longest arch bridge in the world. After taking a high speed elevator up about 20 stories, you cross a platform to the rib of the bridge where there are 300 some steps to climb to a basketball court sized viewing platform at the top!
Crossing the walkway to the steps, where we will begin to climb the arched portion of the bridge. View on the way up of the shipyard below.

Mr. Wu, Seth and Gwen up ahead on the stairs.
See all the cranes in the shipyard? It was really neat to see these mammouth sea-going vessels in various stages of construction.

All of us at the top!



Back at the bottom of the bridge... we made it!

If you come to Shanghai, you too can climb the Lupu Bridge. Maybe we'll even have a clearer day! By then the site for the World Expo 2010, which is right below the bridge on the side of the river opposite the shipyard, will have buildings on it and we'll be able to check that out as well.