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The adjacent
bazaar
may be tacky and crowded, but it's good for a browse if you
can handle the crowds and fake Rolex vendors. The nearby Taoist
Temple of the
¥10; 8.30am-4.30pm)
is also worth visiting. Just beyond the bazaar is
Old St
(
Lao Jie;
Click here
)
, known more prosaically as Middle Fangbang Rd, a busy street
lined with curio shops and teahouses.
NEED TO KNOW
Yuyuan & Yuyuan Shangcheng;
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admission gardens ¥40, bazaar
free; gardens 8.30am-5.30pm, last entry 5pm; Yuyuan Garden
Old Town & South Bund
Known to locals as Nan Shi (Southern City), the Old Town is the most tradi-
tionally Chinese part of Shanghai, bar Qibao. Its oval layout still reflects the
footprint of its 16th-century walls, erected to keep marauding Japanese pirates
at bay. On the South Bund, the Cool Docks ( Shishang Laomatou) is a kind of
riverside Xintiandi-lite, with
shikumen
(low-rise tenement buildings built in the
early 1900s) houses and converted warehouses.
