Home Inn (Nanjing TV Station)

Take a picnic lunch and spend all day here!!

by albaaust

Zhongshan Mountain National Park
This is actually a huge area which incorporates Dr Sun Yat Sen’s Mausoleum, the tomb of the Ming Dynasty, the Sacred Path, fragrant Plum Blossom Hill, Plum Blossom Valley and Linggu Temple. There also appears to be a sight seeing cableway,slide-way recreation park, astronomical observatory and an underwater world - none of which we visited!!

We spent about half a day in this park area and only managed to see three things. You could easily take a picnic lunch and spend a whole day exploring the various sites.

Signage of the site is very good and is in English and Chinese. There are small buses that ferry people from one area of the park to the other.

You will need to buy an all inclusive ticket to see all the sites to make use of this service.
80 Yuan to see Dr Sun Yat Sen's Mausoleum
70 Yuan to see Xiaoling Tomb

The King Sweet Osmanthus of Jinling

by socrates_07

That luxuriant osmanthus is 6.3 meter high whose circumference at the root is 1.52 meter and the crown diameter is 7.8 meter. It blooms twice a year in the middle and the last twenty dadys of September when numerous golden blossoms send out sweet refreshing scent across the park.
In fact that tree planted along on the axis of Linggu Temple Scenic Spot has become a sight itself which presents the same elegant look from all directions.

Through years vicissitudes it grows even more exuberantly. Its graceful temperament and kingly appearance is seldom seen among sweet osmanthus planted in Jinling, alternative name of Nanjing, hence its name.

The Light at The End of the Tunnel

by jodi&matt

"From Beijing to Nanjing"

Here is Matt on train to Nanjing. It was a 14 hour trip, ugh! We met some locals. We did not speak Chinese, they did not speak English. We managed to communicate with our phrase book, and through beer. "Cheers".

"Streets of Nanjing"

Here we are in the streets of Nanjing. The people here were much nicer than in Beijing. We were wandering around looking for a watering hole. We found a Scottish pub, but Matt insisted we walk further. We saw a big Aussie flag in a window and went in. Turns out the place was owned by an australian man and we had our fix of VB's. It ended up to be a great evening.

"Room with a view"

This is the view from our hotel room. We arrived in Nanjing at night so we had no idea it was so big. We were under the impression that Nanjing was a smaller city in China. It is, but with a population of 5.6 Million!! It's smaller compared to Beijing (14 Million). When Matt opened the curtains the next morning, he was pleasantly surprised. While we were there, we were awoken by loud air raid sirens. We were alarmed, but it turned out to be a memorial for the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.