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Parks & Scenic Spots

Dashi’ao Village

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With each building intricately crafted with the “horse head” style of gables that are distinctive to southern Jiangsu and Anhui province, and nested in a scenically stunning valley on the western side of Niushoushan in Jiangning District, Dashi’ao has...
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Fish Mouth Wetlands

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Hidden at the the Southern end of the Binjiang Olympic Park, the Fish Mouth Wetlands are as secluded as one can get while staying in the city centre of Nanjing. New walkways slither their way through thick greens, which...
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Jiangjunshan Scenic Spot

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OK, so the first thing you see when you enter Jiangjunshan Scenic Spot is a dilapidated bamboo shack on stilts reminiscent of the first Russian Roulette scene in The Deerhunter, but after you get that behind you, somewhat more...
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Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (Park)

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Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge; a source of great pride for the Chinese people as the first bridge across the Yangtze built without foreign assistance. Completed in 1968 after almost nine years of construction, this fine example of Chinese...
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Ming Tombs (Ming Xiao Ling

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Not even an hour away from the bustling commercial centre of Xinjiekou (???) is Nanjing's massive tourist magnet, Purple Mountain. It's a really strange to find that, so close to a place with an unending soundtrack of car horns...
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Zhonghua Gate

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As many of you would know, every major Chinese city used to be enclosed in massive stone walls to protect them from invading armies. After historical events such as globalisation made the walls somewhat redundant, it was up to...
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Memorial for Revolutionary Martyrs (Or Martyr’s Cemetery)

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When Chinese people decide to make a memorial, they don't mess around...this place is BIG. This is fair enough, considering the reasons this place exists. Yuhuatai is a massive memorial park, in a nutshell, because this area...
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Purple Mountain Observatory

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The western side of Purple Mountain, one of the area's highest peak, is home to one of China's oldest astronomical observatories. This area features not one but a few telescopes, as well as some ancient Chinese astronomical instruments, and...
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