At 7am, I rolled out of bed and headed off to Nanjing. After spending a stressful hour trying to buy tickets (the machines kept breaking down), we finally got onto our bullet train! It was so fast! We got from Shanghai to Nanjing in a little bit more than an hour.The city didn't look very different from Shanghai, but it was super dusty. We could all feel dust flying into our eyeballs.
Our first stop was the presidential palace. The place was well-preserved the place and we had a lot of fun taking silly group photos together. I must say, people looked like they enjoyed taking our photos :)
Our trip went downhill when we left for Confucius Temple. So many things went wrong. We spent at least half an hour trying to hail a cab in the rain. Eventually we gave up and started walking. Confucius Temple was a pretty place as well, but it was modernized with foreign shops and fast-food restaurants.
Overall, the weather/food/taxi situation was horrible. We grumpily went home and had KFC for dinner. I really hope to give Nanjing a second chance though! There are still a lot of places in this city that I need to visit.
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