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The Oriental Pearl Tower

February 28th 2008 09:49
Pearl Tower at night on the Huangpu river in Shanghai
Pshaw! Your feeble Sydney Tower has nothing on the magnificent Oriental Pearl Tower, a communications tower in Pudong, a suburb of the beautiful, commerically frisky, success-story city called Shanghai.


It's the tallest tower in Asia, and the third tallest in the world. The first (now the second) tallest tower is a tower for hosers, though. I don't know anybody that would want to go up there, eh?

In fact, if you think about it, the Pearl Tower is the tallest tower in Asia - and Asia is the biggest continent in the world, so, really, the Pearl Tower is the biggest tower in the world. Basically.

It's 468 m tall, which towers over the puny 309 m Sydney Tower. Why even bother making a tower that small? Am I right?

The Pearl Tower has three observation levels, including one of those revolving restaurants. Revolving restaurants are sweet because you can face backwards to the direction of revolution, move your feet and appear to be moonwalking to people outside.

Well, people that happen to be over 400 meters up. And looking through the windows.


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* this image is taken from Wikipedia.

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Comment by katyzzz

February 28th 2008 09:53
That is beautiful, I guess we're rather insular out here, but many who have been all over the world rate our Sydney Harbour, as NO 1. Cib.

Comment by postmoderncritic

May 9th 2008 05:00
That is one sexy tower... and the buildings around it aren't bad either.

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