For those who live north of Hanzhong Road or Zhongshan East Road in Nanjing, it really does make sense to take the subway to the train station. From the Xinjiekou subway stop it takes only 2 kuai and 10mins. This is super when compared to the 22 kuai and 30mins I need to get there [...]
These guys only opened two months ago. It’s a very simple outfit, a simple wall and some protective gear. I met up with two american climbers here, and they too say that the guy who runs the place can really climb.
So if you wanna learn or just wanna climb, check out this place. If you [...]
Foreigners from around Nanjing University and Nanjing Normal University don’t walk north. That is simply a fact. Come to think of it, no matter what university people are studying at or living around in Nanjing, they will walk south nine out of ten times. Perhaps this is due to the proximity of many student [...]
On the tomb:
1. Ming Xiao Ling 明孝陵 [ming2xiao4ling2] is where the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty 朱元璋 [zhu1yuan2zhang1) is buried.
2. He and his advisor picked ‘Single Dragon Mound’ as the place for his tomb because of its ideal fengshui location.
3. The tomb consists of an Outer Wall, and Inner Wall, a Ming Tower, and [...]
Temple Pews
Otherwise known as 栖霞寺 [qi3xia2si4], this temple lies some 20km northeast of the city proper. The best time to go there is during the autumn when all around is red and falling.
Despite it being almost winter now, I heard from my bad friend Chrys that she was going to go last week. Why? It’s [...]
Evening Runs Along Qinhuai
I just went running two weeks ago with Mirjam from Holland. She brought me on a running tour of Qinhuai Promenade…. all the way from Hanzhong Gate to the 1912-wannabe we call 水木秦淮 [shui3mu4qin2huai2]. Or translate it literally as Water-Wood Qinhuai.
The cool thing about jogging there in the evening is that the [...]
So is there a subway stop in Nanjing where Chinese people hang around and hop a hip or two?
My local friend - Girl X - signed up for a reggaeton class two month back, and has stopped going since. To my understanding, a wave of new enterprises have sprung up to cater to the leisure [...]
First, an introduction to this section.
This webpage (hopefully, soon it will be a series of webpages) is devoted to those small, easy to miss alleys which make up a staggeringly large portion of Nanjing. These small streets contain everything from the mundane but useful to the shockingly interesting, or at least delicious. If nothing else, [...]
where is lushan? lushan is in the jiangxi province. jiangxi is just to curled around on its lower right quadrant by fujian and guangdong. 庐山 was called kuling by the american and european “expats” in the early 1900s, because well, you go up there to cool down during the sweltering heat of summer.
what’s this movie [...]
Ever consider going to the movies? There are a number of pleasant, air conditioned movie theaters throughout the city which show some of the latest movies from America!
(I am not sure why, exactly.)
My friend in Japan tells me that movies generally come out there four months after their American debut, and England is the same [...]