We arrived at Nanjing very early in the morning and with us both of us having shocking nights sleep, we decided it was best to sleep for a few hours lol. It did take a while to get to the hostel though because all the taxi drivers in China think they know where they going but don't have a clue-bit like women!!
When we did get up, our breakfast was based at a bakery store and feasted on cakes and buns. Once we were sugared up, we went to hunt for a shop that burns DVD's and only found a modelling shop by accident. We were sat there waiting for the DVD whilst munching on these cakes (bet the models hated us), when the two women working there signalled to me I had nice eyelashes and were proper jealous-don't blame them like!
With us leaving the next morning, we only had a few hours of sunlight to see Nanjing's main attractions. It seemed that all the attractions were on Zijin mountain so we got the local bus there now that we're pro's at this travelling malarky. Usually it's a great view of the city from the top of this small mountain but with it being misty, we gave it a miss. Instead we visited Dr Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum, who was one of the first people to bring democracy to China. His tomb is at the top of this huge stairway of 392 steps ( Danny counted and got a different total!) but when we walked back down, we got asked by two old ladies for a photo. As we're foreigners and have a brown and white so we always get asked. So we let them have photo's with us but then they asked for our number. One lady was old enough to be my mother and the other one was old enough to be my grandmother, We told them we didn't have a number so they asked for our email addresses and i don't know why becasue they couldn't speak a word of english. Danny gave the younger one his and he gave the older one mine-the fucker! After the brief visit, we walked through the forrest to see the Lingu Temple/pagoda and the beamless hall. There really wasn't much interesting to see in Nanjing but it's another place we visited.
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