The Bund is a strip of buildings along side the river in Shanghai which used to play home to the city’s financial institutions.  Whilst there are still some banks around, many of the impressively  grand structures now host name after name of designer shops (Dolce and Gabana, Prada, etc…).

Normally, there are apparently impressive views of the Shanghai Pudong’s iconic  skyscapers, however due to the construction work for the Shanghai Expo 2010 I am afraid that the area is a bit of a building site .  I did not even manage to see the river due to the 15 foot fences which were in place to hide the rubble.

I walked along the street for about 15 minutes, however the ‘path’ was not always distinguishable from the road and even when it was, I had to dodge random motor bikes with all kinds of things strapped to the back of them…

My advice: if you want to see the Bund in all it’s glory, come back next year!