{"id":21020,"date":"2014-06-08T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=21020"},"modified":"2015-08-16T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:38:26","slug":"nanjing-day-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=21020","title":{"rendered":"Nanjing Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Nanjing Day 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gmail has stopped working completely, even on my phone app. No emails for the rest of the stay in China.<\/p>\n

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\nWe only have today as our sightseeing day here in Nanjing, so we are going to make it count. Just from being out and about yesterday, we think we like Nanjing. It has a big little city feel to it.<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s not a rainwater drain, it’s a bathroom sink.<\/p>\n

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\nOur subway stop is about 5 minutes walk from the hotel. Not too bad I guess.<\/p>\n

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\nBroken escalator…I know I said that I wouldn’t complain anymore after Huangshan stairs, but my legs are still sore. Ouch ouch ouch ouch.<\/p>\n

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\nOnly two subway lines right now here in Nanjing, so no crazy complicated transfers.<\/p>\n

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\nWe are now at the base of Purple Mountain. We are here to visit Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s mausoleum. He’s the revolutionary who ended imperial rule in China and is known as the father of modern China.<\/p>\n

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\nThe subway got us to the surface, and it was not very well marked on where we are supposed to go. Our hotel said that there’s a shuttle that can take us up the mountain when we get off the subway.<\/p>\n

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\nThis seems to be the way.<\/p>\n

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\nFound!<\/p>\n

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\nCheap! Only 5 yuan a person to ride to the mausoleum.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is where we got dropped off. Now we walk.<\/p>\n

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\nSouvenir shops means we must be going the right direction.<\/p>\n

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\nThey used to charge a fee to go visit, but not anymore.<\/p>\n

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\nWe see it now!! This is kind of exciting.<\/p>\n

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\nReached the first gate.<\/p>\n

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\nNow…time for the climb to the mausoleum. I read that there are close to 400 steps here…<\/p>\n

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\nThis is actually a piece of cake compared to Huangshan. Barely broke a sweat.<\/p>\n

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\nSpectacular view from the top. You can see Nanjing towards the top right of the photo. The air quality in China sucks major ass. It’s been brownish grey and smoggy everywhere we’ve gone.<\/p>\n

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\nInside the mausoleum. Notice the Taiwanese Republic of China flag on top. You used to be able to go in the back room to see the actual sarcophagus, but they’ve stopped allowing visitors there, so this is all we got to see.<\/p>\n

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\nAlright, time to head down. Again, a breeze.<\/p>\n

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\nThe women in China wear ridiculous tall heels everywhere. Even on Huangshan, we see women wear heels.<\/p>\n

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\nTaking our faux train back down the mountain.<\/p>\n

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\nNow back on the subway.<\/p>\n

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\nThe subway uses Windows for their ad displays. Wonder if it’s a pirated copy?<\/p>\n

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\nOur next destination. The longest name ever.<\/p>\n

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\nThis museum is a lot more modern than I had expected.<\/p>\n

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\nAn indicator of things to come.<\/p>\n

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\nWe too had to give up our water bottle.<\/p>\n

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Warning, graphical images ahead!<\/p>\n

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\nThe museum is built on top of actual mass burial sites such as this one.<\/p>\n

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\nAh propaganda.<\/p>\n

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\nArchives.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen the Japanese surrendered.<\/p>\n

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\nRepublic of China flag is in here. Also known as the Taiwanese flag.<\/p>\n

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\nThat was a very heavy and sad museum. We both felt like we did after visiting S21 museum in Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n

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\nWell, now we need some food to cure the heaviness in our hearts.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is where area where the two subway lines intersect.<\/p>\n

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\nNaturally it’s a busy area filled with malls.<\/p>\n

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\nWe came into this fancy mall, but the food was all too expensive for our taste.<\/p>\n

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\nFinally found a cheaper curry restaurant.<\/p>\n

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\nYum! Japanese style curry…kind of ironic that we are eating this right after seeing all the atrocious things that the Japanese did to the Chinese.<\/p>\n

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\nWe told them that they misspelled two words here. Seriously, enough people speak English here in China that they shouldn’t have so many terrible translations or misspelled words.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter lunch, it was back to our hotel. Dropped by the milk tea\/fried chicken place to get a snack again. Yum.<\/p>\n

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\nLaundry time! Our hotel has free washer and dryer for the guests to use on both the 3rd and 6th floor. They were both occupied last night, but both are free this afternoon. Time for us to do our entire load, for free! Score!!<\/p>\n

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\nThe dryer is sized way too small relative to the size of the washer. We could only fit half of our clothes in the dryer, and the rest we had to dry the old school way in our room.<\/p>\n

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\nHours of blogging and doing our laundry goes by. It’s now time to find a bite to eat.<\/p>\n

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\nAccording to my research, there is a mall and Walmart, yes a Walmart, within walking distance of our hotel.<\/p>\n

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\nFound, after a long boring walk.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Walmart is in the basement. We are actually kind of excited to see what Walmart in China is like.<\/p>\n

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\nInside the Walmart, and it just looks like a bunch of independent shops….eh, what?<\/p>\n

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\nAh, this is more like it. It’s a Super Walmart with groceries.<\/p>\n

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\nLow Prices Everyday, she says! Walmart here in China feels very similar to Walmart in America, other then the items caterings towards Chinese.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter the Walmart tour, we came up to find an acrobat doing a show in the mall.<\/p>\n

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\nFood court, next to an ice rink.<\/p>\n

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\nDinner spot. Some Thai food, it’s been a while.<\/p>\n

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\nKL, Singha Man.<\/p>\n

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\nMango sticky rice. Didn’t look like the photo from the menu, but still tasted good.<\/p>\n

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\nPork neck, yum.<\/p>\n

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\nMore anatomically correct restroom sign. The woman is shorter than the man.<\/p>\n

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\nThe ubiquitous H&M and Uniqlo. Ever present in every mall.<\/p>\n

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\nTook a different route home, just as boring, and slightly more unsafe. For strange unknown idiotic reasons, most moped riders here in China do not turn on their headlights when riding at night. On top of that, they are electric, so you can’t hear one that’s about to pass you by. Seriously, use your fucking lights so that other people can see you. Idiots!<\/p>\n

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\nWe’ve reached an area where we didn’t quite know how to get through…perhaps this is the way.<\/p>\n

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\nTerrible walk. Now we are walking on the side of a highway with some wimpy railing to protect us.<\/p>\n

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\nAhhh, finally back to where our subway station is at. Now we know the rest of the way home. Despite the terrible walks tonight, we are both a fan of Nanjing.<\/p>\n

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\nHeading to Shanghai tomorrow, so doing some logistics of how to get to our hotel in Shanghai. According to Bing, central Shanghai has just 3 streets….nice. Seriously, China, stop censoring everything!!! Fuck you!<\/p>\n

To be continued at Shanghai Day 1 Part 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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