First Impressions: First day in China

In a taxi. The driver is boxed in plastic.

We went to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial. I believe it has been 70 years. I don't know all the details exactly - if you are curious check out Wikipedia.

The sculptures were fascinating. The were very blunt in there expressions regarding the incident so be warned as you see this.

Some of the military were there that day.

It was really crowded that day. We chose not to go in the museum part - the line was really long.

The Peace Bell

A Chinese poem.

The were several mass burial sites in Nanjing - there were stones representing each site.

The name wall.

These stones cover the burial site - here they found 10,000.

These are real. There was a section encased in glass from the burial site. There is also a section covered by a building that shows bones and has markers describing what archeologists have found to be the causes of death - it was so sickining and sad. All of the bones they displayed were real and it was the actual burial site that had been uncovered.

The flame that burns for those that were in the open site. We were not allowed to take pictures inside that site - they also asked us to take off our hats in respect.

The end of the memorial.

Right outside the memorial is the Nanjing Embroidery Institute.

They had many works of art on display.

Cameron really liked this one.

Local houses and apartments. We found that the apartments looked more western in China than they do in Korea. There was much more of a western feel.

There are those things that just aren't the same. Some of the transportation was a bit different. I wasn't able to get pictures because my camera's batteries ran out. Many of these I took with Caitlin's camera. There were lots and lots of bikes. The vehicles varied much more in newness and oldness in China than in Korea.

On the bus. Raul, Chris, Cameron

Chris met us at the memorial.

Downtown Nanjing.

Yes, this is downtown. Caitlin said that Walmart is impossible because it is so busy.

They had a bunch of different sculpture like things promoting the olympics. I thought they were very neat.

When Cameron heard they had a Papa Johns he had to ask if we could go. We haven't seen one here, but there might be one or more in Seoul. It tasted just like home.