Adventures of Nanjing

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007



November 11-13th, a group of us went to Nanjing. It was my first taking a train! Quite the fabulous experience, besides waking up super early, but it was worth it! I’m writing this more than a week past the event so I’m looking through pictures to retrace my thoughts. When we first arrived in Nanjing, we took the public bus to our hostel which ended up being pretty nice! And there was a bobba stand attached to it in the front which had the best bobba I’ve ever had, I would have to say. At the hostel we settled and went to the roof to relax a little before continuing our day. We ended up playing with a dog that I was not too fond of for awhile. After that, we walked the streets of Nanjing leading to the Confucius temple. I lite some candles for the family, quite marvelous! From there, we went to the park. It’s a funny story if you ever want to hear it. I don’t think it would be wise to write about it though hah. The park was really big so we spent the rest of our day there. We also spent a lot of time taking pictures there and being funny, like trying to take pictures as we jumped. It was really relaxing and nice out. From there we went into the city of Nanjing, taking their excellent and clean subway system! We spent the rest of the night walking around the city, grabbing dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant and then going to a bar to relax.

The next day we went to the Purple Mountain. We climbed to somewhat the top and then went in another direction and took a cable car to the top. The cable car was quite the delight. Very relaxing as we took in the autumn colors of the trees. It was quite beautiful. At the top of the mountain we didn’t have a lot of time so we saw the Buddha and walked around a little before heading back down. As we rode down we watched the sunset…so BEAUTIFUL! *sigh* I’m taken by these beautiful moments. After that we headed towards Nanjing University and walked around before finding a restaurant and eating dinner there. Afterwards we went to a cafe for tea and coffee and played card games and talked. Very relaxing night. I left Monday morning to go back to Fudan so make it for class. But in all, it was a great relaxing weekend. Oh beautiful Nanjing!:)