Zhenjiang

Last Saturday the liason from the Faculty of Applied Foreign Studies, for which I teach, took Bob and me and another couple on an excursion to Zhenjiang, a city along the Yangtze between Nanjing and Shanghai. It was one of the colder days we have had here and I was ready to cancel out but we decided to go anyway. We met Catherine and her friend at the gate of the University at 7:00 am and went by subway to the train station where we traveled by a fast softseat train to Zhenjiang. It took about one-half hour on the train.

Zhenjiang is known for it's three "mountains" and also for it's vinegar factory.

We visited two of the "mountains". Jiaoshan Mountain is a ways out of the city on an Island in the Yangtze river. We traveled by taxi to the Jiaoshan Mountain area.

We had to travel by boat to get to the island.

There were pedal boats, bumper cars, archery lanes, rafting opportunities and peacocks at the bottom of the "mountain".


This is what remains of a canon fort once used to stop enemies from going up the Yangzte. The British were held off here for 6 days in July 1842 before defeating the defending soldiers.

The top of the Ten Thousand Budha Pagoda

View from the top of the mountain (my new camera)

We love the signs we find here in China. Following are pictures of a few we found that day. (Click on them to make them big enough to read.)

We caught a bus back downtown, had lunch and then went to one of the other "mountains", Jinshan. It was originally on an island in the Yantze, but the river changed it course and now it is right in the city. We were all getting tired and cold by the time we came here and mostly just hung around. There was a place to rent costumes and we watched people get their pictures taken dressed like an Emperor or Empress.

The City is getting pretty close to the mountain.

So we returned to Nanjing via taxi, train, and subway and got home around 7:00 p.m.