Nanjing, China
August 1, 2004 - August 3, 2004

Nanjing (famous in world history for the Japanese genocide there) is a university
town 2 hours north of Shanghai. It's also got a partial wall around the city 
and offers some historical and religious sites.  Yang Jia and I spent 2 days exploring Front Gate, Nanjing 
University, and the Fuzi Miao area.  The city was a little cleaner than the other cities we'd been to in 
China and Nanjing University was exceptionally nice for China.

The 23 hour train ride from Xi'an

This was great.  The conductors take on the role of salesmen to make extra money.  This time they were selling "indestructible socks".  They were extremely insistent about how indestructible these socks were and did things like light them on fire, hang from them, try to rip them with a metal brush, and even dragged passengers around the train isles by them!  Nylon is a new and exciting thing for the Chinese...

  I had to meet the challenge!

Even little Toto can't rip them!  Hahaha...

Around the town of Nanjing

Local pool billiard - gives me a new appreciation for Jillian's

At the Front Gate to the city

This is interesting.  Each brick in this whole gate is stamped with the
brick makers name, and date, so as to have accountability to the quality

Nanjing University - the 3rd best school in China
A sprinkler system!  Now that's fancy for China!