All the world's a stage

The Shanghai World Expo 2010 was an event like no other on many counts. For starters, the event saw the largest participation ever, with countries and communities from across the globe brought together to one single location, showcasing their culture and technology.

You will soon see, I have posted photos of some of my favourite pavilions from the exposition. Out of the world designs, housing some of the greatest exhibition.

And please dont get me started on the crowd. Mad mad crowd.

The essentials:

A Map,

ticket,
a passport, and you are all set for globetrotting!

So the idea was to get your passports stamped at every pavilion you visit. Awesome right? Not so when you put it into the hands of the chinese. At some of the pavilions, it was a nasty sight of people clamoring and clawing each other for a grab of the stamp. Unbelievable. Some made a beeline for the stamp booth, total disregard for the exhibition. Unbelievable. And then there were those with 20 passports in one hand. Unbelievable.

Enough said.

Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Greece
Turkey
Iceland
Sweden
Ukraine
Ireland
Norway
Austria
Russia
City of the future

Russian children were asked to imagine a city for the future. Inspired by a child, to the drawing block, and finally on to the model.

Africa
United Kingdom

If I had to choose, I would say the UK pavilion had one of the most interesting structure around. From a distance, it looks like a grey fuzz, but up close, its a clever design of hundreds of long spokes sticking out from the core.

The Netherlands

And the most crowd friendly pavilion award would have to go to the Netherlands, where you can just stroll on without feeling like one in a million.

Canada
Brazil