Day 1 in Nanjing

As we traveled from the railway station to the hotel she asked what we wanted to do this afternoon. About this time David asked about the mountain directly in front of us, she said it was purple mountain. She asked if we wanted to go their today as it would be alot of walking and would not be a good place to visit after we got our son. Then she asked how we wanted to get their we could take a taxi or hire the van driver we were with and she would go with us. We enquired about the cost of the taxi or using the van and their was not a large difference. So we decided to go with the van as it would be safer and we would get a personal tour of the sites on the mountain. We checked into the hotel with the assistance of our guide. She went upstairs with us to make sure the room was acceptable to us, it was so we agreed to meet at 1:30 to purple mountain, and the Zhongshan Mountain National park. We went to eat at Burger King, they had a bilingual menu on the wall so we could get the correct sandwiches.

We meet our guide in the lobby and we rode out to the mountain. On the way we passed an amusement park, we could see rope bridge climbing, and big balls and spheres that people could get inside and move them on the lake. We first went to the mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, it has several buildings and gates on the way up to the actual mausoleum. It is 392 steps to the mausoleum. We walked up all of them. We received very detailed information about Dr. Yat-Sen from our guide.

As usual Blogger did not put the pictures where I wanted them. The pictures are all from the mausoleum area. The first one is the view from the top of the mausoleum built so you don't see the stairs but just the flat areas. The next picture is a view of the city from the top of the mausoleum. The picture directly below it is also a view of the city. The first picture in the next row is of the front of the tablet describing Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. The next picture is of us behind the tablet the building in the background is the actual mausoleum.

We also went to the new museum about the Ming tomb, as the area is being restored, it is a well done museum and has some interesting artifacts and information. We bought our first souvenirs here.