Shanghai

From the Bund to Pudong; the Silk Road arrives at the Pacific.

If the journey began at the heart of the old West, Shanghai is where it meets the face of the new East. On the Huangpu River, the colonial facades of the Bund stare across at the soaring towers of Pudong—a single skyline that holds a century of headlong transformation, and a country's pivot toward the sea and the world.

For the Marco Polo Drive, Shanghai is the point where the overland Silk Road finally reaches the Pacific. The classical gardens of the old town and the neon of Nanjing Road sit minutes apart. Here trade, finance, and ambition run at full velocity, and the long road from Rome dissolves into the energy of contemporary China.

Where the road meets the ocean, the future begins.