July 17
Yesterday we left Shanghai and traveled
We soon arrived to Zhou Zhaung- a water town that was very
nice to visit but very crowded and touristy, Water gondolas, shops galore but a
Ming dynasty home was open to visit, The entrance way was high indicating a
high ranking family. Our Beijing tv reporters
followed us. Two 23 yd old young men, so pleasant and nice. One oddity is the amount of people who want
to take my picture. They consider my hair blonde and the curls are an oddity as
well. They stare, point, take photos its hilarious.
Wee visited the famous tomb of the father of China Sun
Tat-Sen who overthrew the last emperor of China, unfortunately it closed and we
were not able to climb the hundreds of steps to the mausoleum.
Finally we arrived to Nanking city of 9 million and home of
our guide Fa Fay. It was the capitol of China when the Japanese invaded killing
hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
However- like most cities- it is modern and very beautiful, pedestrian
malls were open well past 10 pm on a week night. The Confucius temple was
closed but we could see the outside. A
600 year old wall (reminds me of an older one in Jerusalem) surrounds the city.
Robin and I walked around until we gave in to the exhaustion of the day. Today
we will visit the site of the massacre and meet with historians, and survivors
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