First Day in Nanjing Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text 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). <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_004_8705 Nanjing railway station 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_007_3273 Nanjing railway station 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_016_1542 Nanjing from above ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_009_1093 Nanjing subway 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_011_4704 Nanjing street signs 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_021_3468 Nanjing highrise 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_023_3309 Nanjing bicycles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_015_1169 Nanjing highrise 2006-05-26-a-nanjing-arriving/20060526_022_0057 Downtown Nanjing 2006-05-26-b-nanjing-zhonghua/20060526_032_3623 Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing 2006-05-26-b-nanjing-zhonghua/20060526_043_7284 Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-05-26-b-nanjing-zhonghua/20060526_044_2570 Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing 2006-05-26-b-nanjing-zhonghua/20060526_046_1336 Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing 2006-05-26-b-nanjing-zhonghua/20060526_049_0829 Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> 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.) Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Don't put anything here Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
