Deepite one of the highest populations of any city in the world, Shnaghai can be a pleasant place to explore. Shanghai still retains marks of its cosmopolitan past as the Paris of the East. The Bund, on the banks of the Huangpu River, and the foreign concessions are perhaps the most enduring image of European influence anywhere In the region. Amongst the concrete and mind-boggling highways, there are plenty of old-style Chinese neighbourhoods, still intact, to get lost in and discover the true flavour of this vast city.