Photos from our weekend trip to Nanjing are up here. They're limited as we spent a fair bit of time shopping, browsing in the bookshop and in Starbucks - I've been boring students for a week now about Starbucks with gap fills and listening activities, they were pleased on Monday when I brought in some pictures and a new coffee cup.
We spent an exhausting afternoon at the Museum of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937 (beginning their invasion of China, the Japanese army murdered, raped, burned everybody who hadn't fled the city). They've unearthed a selection of the 300'000 bodies from the massacre - the top layer of one mass grave is visible, skeletons in situ are exposed. Grim, but surprisingly tastefully done.
On the Sunday, we took the cable car up Purple Gold Mountain (Zijin Shan) and, instead of heading to one of the ancient Ming tombs of Dr Sun Yatsen's mausoleum, we got sidetracked by an abandoned, yet photogenic, building and messed around taking arty photos until it was time to head back down for lunch and the train home.
We had a great time, it was good fun travelling with Brian and Sherree and so refreshing to go travelling again... I miss Spring Festival!
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