Nanjing

Our three-night stay in Nanjing was at the Nanjing Xun Wu Hotel, with a 20th floor revolving dining room. The hotel was one block from the Xun Wu Lake Park, where in the early morning you can observe the locals exercising... including walking, tai chi, sculling (the logo for this website, above, was taken there), and free-form water calligraphy.

Activities included a visit to an embroidery factory, Yulan's parents' apartment, a calligrapher who made chops for us, the night market, the Xixia Temple with the Thousand Buddah cliffside, the Nanjing Memorial, the bridge over the Yangtzee with its Cultural Revolution sculptures, and a ferry ride across the Yangtzee. Some of these images are included below. Others will hopefully follow when other tour participants help to make up for the images I mistakenly deleted!

We then boarded an overnight sleeper train to Beijing, an event we were dreading based on conversations with friends and relatives who were familiar with Chinese rail services. Boy, were we pleasantly surprised!! See the pix on the Beijing page.