Nanjing makes Beijing look sane. It's a crazy, colourful, overpriced, huge, fragmented, inconsistent, fun place. It's hard not to enjoy yourself even when just milling along with the hordes. People just stop for no reason, bully past and generally live absolutely for themselves, but with no malice whatsoever.
The Confucius temple is one of the major drawcards of the town, but ain't all that. Expensive and not very big, with much of the signage being only in Chinese. On that subject, even Pinyin (the alphabeticised written language) is very rare here. Like I say, it is a chaos.
I've finally understood some of my own suggestions, and they aren't all that realistic. For example, I was going to go to Shanghai before Huang Shan, but it is the wrong direction from Nanjing. Dummy. On the bright side, it makes it easier to stay around here for a bit and then head to Shanghai later as planned.
Happy New Year to you all!
I'll just sneak a couple of photos in here while no-one's looking...
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