The Bund Tourist Tunnel
Beneath the Hwangpo River
Shanghai
April 10, 2004
The grooviest way to get from the old part of town (Puxi) to the new garden of skyscrapers over in Pudong is the Bund Tourist Tunnel, a 30-yuan ($3.50) psychadelic descent into neon madness. A soundtrack of whale songs and cryptic phrases in English and Chinese ("nascent magma", "basalt in blue") serenade you as your tram rolls along at 3 mph under the river. Someone in China clearly remembers the old Tron tunnel on Disneyland's old people mover.
Here's a short sample of the ride (a 13-second Quicktime video).
