Nanjing in Pictures

Inside Shanghai Train Station

So at the time of writing and posting these photos we have experienced the Chinese rail system three times. It's been awful everytime. After having bought the tickets we make our way into the station, each time being like a shaken champange bottle wanting to burst. Everyone is on their own in the fight to get through, to WHERE! we're all going to the same place and we all have tickets, why push?, why hit?, why barge?... What? what is the hurry? I have to say that this is worse than any commuter train I've travelled in Japan. Look at the calm before the storm above. We travelled hard seat which was quite soft for only 2 hours to a lovely, and a little less crazy Nanjing.

Nanjing Station

Nanjing is right next to the Yangzi River which is where the Grand Canal links up this river up with the Yellow River, I wanted to see this and to see this we had to get up high. We took the first whole day to explore the surrounding 'Purple Mountians'. We walked and walked and then took a cable chair up and up, and then walked some more. We must have walked over ten miles that day or at least it felt like it the next few days, where we could hardly walk anymore, so we discovered the metro line for the rest of our time there.

A scary half hour trip on the cable car.

At the end of this path down the Purple (more like green) Mountain, we were greeted by two big grumpy men that demanded we pay the steep entrance fee to the end of the park containing a nine storey Pagoda and some interesting buildings or walk back the way we came... we paid and got a bus back down to the city.

Ouch!