My family and I are trying to fit in as much travelling as possible before we leave China. This past weekend we took a day trip out to Nanjing. It was a pretty packed day as there is a lot to see in Nanjing, but our day started out at 5:15am when we left our house to go to the Shanghai train station. After about a 2 hour train ride to Nanjing, the family and I left the Nanjing train station and took the #1 tourist bus to head to the touristy area on Nanjing.
After a bus ride in which our bus driver was the least aggressive bus driver I have ever had here in China. To put it in perspective, the driver would never try to go through a yellow light, he would stop at bus stops and read his text messages on his phone and he never once tried to make an effort to get us to our destination with enthusiasm. This is the complete opposite of any bus driver that I have had in Shanghai, so it was a little weird to be riding in this bus.
After a bus ride in which our bus driver was the least aggressive bus driver I have ever had here in China. To put it in perspective, the driver would never try to go through a yellow light, he would stop at bus stops and read his text messages on his phone and he never once tried to make an effort to get us to our destination with enthusiasm. This is the complete opposite of any bus driver that I have had in Shanghai, so it was a little weird to be riding in this bus.
We started our day by going to Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum and the touristy area that is around the mausoleum. The Mausoleum (as seen in the picture) has a bunch of stairs that leads you from the entrance area all the way up to the main mausoleum area. My kids were…unusually…excited about climbing all the stairs. This ended up being a great thing because they were really excited about all the activities we had for the day.
After walking around for a bit, we headed back to town for some lunch. We found a place that looked to be similar to Shanghai's Xintiandi, so we assumed we would be able to find a good meal. We ate at a place called Nihero, which is a Cantonese Style restaurant, for Shanghai it was a reasonably priced meal, overall it was a good restaurant…not the best…but good.
After walking around for a bit, we headed back to town for some lunch. We found a place that looked to be similar to Shanghai's Xintiandi, so we assumed we would be able to find a good meal. We ate at a place called Nihero, which is a Cantonese Style restaurant, for Shanghai it was a reasonably priced meal, overall it was a good restaurant…not the best…but good.
With full stomachs we headed over to the Nanjing Massacre Museum. At the time we were not sure if it was a good idea to go to see this exhibit with full stomachs, but it ended up being a good idea. Both my wife and I thought that we had heard that the museum was not for the faint of heart, but it was actually a really well done memorial for the people who died and was my favorite part of the trip. The tone of the place was obviously solemn, but the displays had a lot of taste and the exhibits were really thought through. The Chinese had a chance to do this well or really make it cheesy and overdo it, in this case they did it very well and tastefully.
After seeing the museum, we went back towards the train station and walked around the Xuanwu Lake and Park right outside of the train station before hopping on our train back to Shanghai. Overall, Nanjing is a really cool city with some neat and well done things to say…definitely worth the day trip from Shanghai.
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