After one day in Shanghai we took a morning train to Nanjing and got there after about 4 hours. Nanjing greeted us with signs written almost entirely in Chinese without pinyin (all street signs have pinyin). It also had a rather strange subway trains without separations between the cars, which meant that you could stare straight into the infinity when the train went on a straight line. We found “Nanjing University Foreign Students Dormitory” and got a room there, then went to have a 20-course “Nanjing dim sum” lunch at Wanqing Lou (see Lonely Planet China for details).

After stralling Nanjing’s bicycle-filled streets, we finally made it to Zhonghua Gate – one of of the gates of Nanjing’s 15th century city wall. (Nanjing was supposedly the largest city in the world at the time and the largest city ever surrounded by a wall.)