Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Shanghai World Expo - France Pavilion

Actually i had no confident in entering France Pavilion. It was because for the past 2 days when i passby it, the queue was always long. On the third day morning, i decided to give it a try. I told myself, i willing to queue for 2 hours to enter it.Somehow i am very lucky! Although the queue seem extremely long, but i only queue for half and hour! some more i got some free gift - a balloon form Michigan. :)
Once you enter the pavilion, inside was empty with only a garden. Suddenly you feel the natural and you will calm down immediate from the long hot queue outside.
First exhibit was true man show. hahaha, show you how the French cook work in progress. Anyway, French people was famous in fine dining.
Then the statue imported from France.
Painting imported from France. I imagine if they brought in Monalisa....the queue will be few km long.

Last but not least, LV!!!!This is totally out of my expectation.
I think France pavilion was one of the best pavilion in the expo. You got to see so many exhibits. So is worth to queue. At their souvenir store, some people were asking the storekeeper weather they sold perfume. What the!!!! perhaps they also asked weather they sold LV or not. hahahaha!
I bought an eiffel tower t shirt here. Cost me RM50 but the quality was not good. I knew you all will laugh at me, bought the eiffel tower t shirt at Shanghai??? :)

Shanghai World Expo -3

Turkey Pavilion at night. Not much people as well.Inside the pavilion was like a museum. Display all the antique things.
Counter selling Turkish souvenir . Its not cheap ooo...
Denmark Pavilion is one of the pavilion that i listed as a must go . I am so lucky on this day this time, i just queue for 10 min to go in. :) I didn't choose to ride on bicycle as i though it looked funny.
The main purpose i wanted to go was this Mermaid Statue! Imported from Denmark! At least now i no need to go Denmark already. It quite far from us but yet you can saw it clearly.
I love this quote, that hang inside Denmark Pavilion. Each visitor can also get a free copy of "green" booklet. Inside the booklet it told what Denmark people believe and how to make their city a better living place.
Its going to rain soon, so we just faster went into a huge pavilion, Africa!
I was like attending a geography class. I didn't know that there were so many countries in Africa. Some i heard of it, some not. They were selling their handicraft. It was very nice and unique. However the price also very "nice".
Look at the gorilla brand coffee! Don't even knew that Africa was famous for coffee???

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Shanghai World Expo -2

I love Findland Pavilion. We queue for 30mins to enter. Once we enter, Wow, inside is empty.You can only saw a big rock and blue sky. What a surprise!

We follow the crowd, walk through a side door and go into the exhibit area. I just feel calm here. The projection image is nice, the air is cool, the display item is simple and beautiful. Unlike Malaysia Pavilion that try to dump in as many product as possible.

Sky become darker, i found actually this was a good time to visit the expo. Less crowded. We able to go into Austria Pavilion without queuing.
As expected, the music performance in Austria Pavilion. Hihi, the hometown of Mozart.
This dinner set cost me RMB50. Guess what? i didn't even able to finish it. It was not tasty at all.
Ukraine Pavilion at night
We enter Greece Pavilion without queuing too, after we entered, we knew why there is no queue.
In fact, inside is a restaurant. ..What the??!! I told Sunyi, don't worry sure there will be some exhibit, i am sure there will had at least the olive oil.
Then we found out, yes there were some exhibits.The 4 botols of oil on the table ....What the?!!!
强!