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For Peter Sams, director of the Australian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, the happiest thing every morning is to see hundreds of visitors running from different directions to the gate of the rust-red pavilion after the Expo entrances open at 9 o'clock.
The Expo Garden isn't just a place for visitors to learn about the latest environmentally friendly technologies, discover faraway countries and marvel at the plethora of pavilions.
A total of 470,800 visitors toured the Expo site as of 7pm July 13 Tuesday, a rise of about 30,000 compared with Monday.
Young people are discovering new methods of avoiding long queues at the Expo by using the easy-access entrances designed for the convenience of the disabled and elderly.
A number of pavilions in the Expo Garden are making plans to invite their national soccer stars to the Expo following the World Cup finals.
About 440,000 visitors flooded to the Expo site by 7pm on July 12, bringing the total visitor flow to a new high of 26.14 million since the Expo's opening on May 1.
It may have rained all day but sunglasses were everywhere at the Spanish and Dutch pavilions at the Shanghai Expo on Monday.
Colombian Foreign Trade Minister Jaime Bermudez started on Monday his trip to China, where he will visit the Shanghai World Expo.
A visitor who traveled all the way from Fujian's capital Fuzhou to Shanghai Sunday won a Liverpool FC ball signed by all of this season's Liverpool FC players as the 250,000th visitor to the Liverpool Pavilion.
Rain failed to dampen visitors' enthusiasm on July 11 as the Expo site attracted as many as 430,800 people as of 7:30pm.