Traveling to Nanjing

We woke up early as were to meet our guide at 8:15 to go to the train station. We made it down to breakfast by 7 am. The breakfast was a buffet with traditional continental (American/European), Japanese, and Chinese food. We tried a little of everything and enjoyed our first breakfast in China. We went back up to the room to collect our bags and check out of the hotel. When we got to the lobby our guide was already waiting downstairs.

We drove to the train station which was farther away then we thought. The driving this morning was not to bad. We were dropped off downstairs came upstairs and had to navigate around lots and lots of people that were returning from the 3 day holiday. We waited in the soft waiting room, as opposed to the hard waiting room where most of the people were waiting. About 20 minutes before the train was to leave they called that it was loading, so we went with our guide to catch the train. We were booked in a first class car, we had seats in the very first car of the train. The train ranged in speed from 120 kilometers to a high of 205 kilometers and hour. For the most part the ride was smooth.

When we got to Nanjing our guide meet us at the train car. We started walking toward the end of the train platform and it was a sea of people, even our guide seemed surprised at how crowed it was. We made it thru the sea of people and to the van. The ride to the hotel was about 20 minutes.