On our first evening in Shanghai we visited the Bund, the famous waterfront along the Huangpu river. Lined with majestic colonial buildings housing banks and famous hotels, these remnants of Western influence have now been dwarfed by the wonders created by modern China.However their beauty has been preserved and today one can walk down the waterfront which is cleaned up and free of messy fishing boats and appreciate the old “living architecture” interspersed with the grand statement made by modern China.: majestic, tall structures reaching out to the sky . These modern structures with  coloured glass glinting the sun have an almost surreal  beauty when lit up at night. As we cruised down the river we were treated to a night skyline truly unrivaled by any in the world.