Headed to the Expo during my last week in Shanghai because my sister was in town. Surprisingly, it didn’t turn out half as bad as I’d expected. It was rather enjoyable partly because we refused to join the ridiculous two/three-hour queues to enter popular pavilions (the longest we’d queued that day: five minutes for Iran) and so visited more pavilions than we thought possible in a single day: DPRK, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Algeria.

Here’s some of the pavilions which caught my eye (and which happen to photograph well).

China

Australia

Singapore

Thailand

Portugal

Finland

Estonia

Latvia

Denmark

Sweden

Iceland

United Kingdom

Italy

Croatia

Russia

Germany

France