NanJing [南京]

Nanjing! - a 2 hour train ride from Shanghai (leaves from both Shanghai Train Station上海火车站 and the very new and shiny Hongqiao railway station 上海虹桥火车站 - which is way out west near Hongqiao Airport on the newly opened section of Line 2.

Apart from seeing a bit of Nanjing [南京] we also learnt a valuable lesson: ALWAYS take your passport to stay in a Chinese Hotel (or hostel). They refuse every other form of identification (if you are a chinese citizen you can bring your ID card instead). Also if you had happened to be staying in a different hotel before they could call up to get them to confirm your details, but as we are resident in China that wasn't going to happen. So after sitting in a police station for 2hours to wait to find out that the police have no access to our information registered on the government database. So we had to head home that same day: on the brightside it's free to exchange your train ticket for a different day, just as long as you manage to find the right queue in the train station.

Before we left we managed to get into Zhongshan Mountain National Park [钟山风景名胜区] and see the Xiaoling Tomb [明孝陵景区]:







and Dr. SunYat-sen's Mausoleum [中山陵景区]:

It rained a lot, but atleast it made it bearable to walk around.

Which led to interesting rolled-up-trousers-shoe-free fashion.