Travelog for: Lancel

Finally, spring is coming. Although the temperature still fluctuates.

This weekend we went to a suburb in north of the city. On the way, we found that trees became green. It is a convincing sign of spring. Pink and white flowers can be saw on the hillside too.

Another important thing is I saw part of the Great Wall. This part of the Great Wall is beside a dam. Maybe it is not so magnificent  as other parts, but it is very special. Because the dam, the Great Wall is just at the side of a lake.

An earthquake of magnitude 7 happened in southwest of China on April 20. Reports in television and newspaper are all about it. Many people are hurt. Search and rescue have already began. We hope people in stricken area can be safe.

Different kinds of flower come into bloom. The city is most beautiful in this time of year. We drove to the northeast of the city where is full of peach trees. On the road, we also saw some  orychophragmus.

The host is so busy these days. So there are not much update...

Today we went to a street where is famous for its IT commodity. There are so many retail shops selling mobile phone and computer.

The building in the second photo is a office building of a famous  English training institutions.

Hi~ Guess where I am. Nanjing, another big city in China.

Thanks for the development of railway, we got here in 4 hours. The speed of the train is about 300km/h. We visited ruins of a palace, and walked along a famous river.

The palace is not exist now. We could know it must be magnificent. Because a similar palace like it is the Forbidden City in Beijing. Luckily the high city wall here has not destroyed much.

There are many classical architectures along the famous river, for example Confucius temple. But we didn't have a visitation because there were so many people. We just walked around and had a rest.

The second day in Nanjing.

We first visited a city gate. It is one of the 13 gates in Ming Dynasty. Some of them are not exist now.

Then we chose to try some special snacks. It is very delicious!

We didn't update our blog for a long time because my host had a surgery. Everything is OK now. Don't worry.

Today we get some sunflower seed to eat. It is vey delicous. In China sunflower seed is a very common snack. They like eat it while watching TV or chating. Always it will be roasted. But we can find fresh one in this season.

We finally went out for a walk, after a long long time.

The temple of heaven is not far from us. So after super, we went there. In the old days, the emperor would come here, offer sacrifices and pray for a good harvest on the day of the winer solstice.

After a long rest, I'm on my way home today!

I have been in China for about 6 month. There are lots of good memory for me.