My handy guidebook says that Shanghai’s Confucius Temple is in the southwest quarter of Old Town. It was restored and reopened in 1999. But the most important detail is that the ground are tranquil and seldom crowded...
Well they weren’t kidding. In the most overpopulated country in the world, Querston and I were two of only 15 maybe 20 tourists at the Confucius Temple (hence the above photo).
The Temple is beautiful, but again, Querston and I were aliens in a world we’d seen from afar but really knew nothing about. We were great at taking pictures, but as you’ll see in the captions, we weren’t really sure what we were looking at.
The gardens were very quiet and peaceful, but we wish that there would have been more placards to give us some of the history. Sadly, my guidebook only offers about a paragraph for each general site, so it was no help either.
That has been a bit of the theme on this trip, but we are learning from it. No more strollers on outings, taking pictures is good, now let’s see about learning some history at the temples. The saga continues...
Click here to see the pictures from our Chinese lunch and Confucius Temple.
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