24 Mar 2024 - RuiAn Day 6: Departing RuiAn (瑞安) and back to Shanghai (上海)

After we had our breakfast at the hotel, our cousins drove us to the RuiAn Railway Station where we would be taking high speed rail to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station.  On the way, we crossed Feiyun River via  Feiyun Jiang 5 Bridge (飞云江五桥).

If you read all my earlier posts, you would have known that the train journey is about 3.5 hours.  Note that this high-speed rail travels at about 304km/h, which is similar to the speed of commercial Maglev.

After we alighted the high-speed rail at Shanghai HongQiao Station, we immediately rushed to take the metro to LongYang Station to catch the Maglev to Pudong Airport as we got a flight to catch.

We thought we would be in time but when we reached the departure hall, we realized the check-in counter had already closed.  We missed by 15 minutes.  So we had no choice but to take the next flight which was about 8 hours later.  As such, we deposited our luggage at the luggage storage counter before returning to Shanghai city for dinner since we now had 4-5 hours to spare till our flight departure.

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