Comments on: Jiangsu Province http://blogofdreams.com/2008/01/27/jiangsu-province/ The China Travel Blog of Dreams Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:09:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Yanzhi http://blogofdreams.com/2008/01/27/jiangsu-province/comment-page-1/#comment-1391 Yanzhi Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:15 +0000 http://blogofdreams.com/2008/01/27/jiangsu-province/#comment-1391 Well, we still haven't been there (passed through on the overnight train to Beijing), but will get to it...And if you have some pics (lovely descriptions by the way) we will happily put them up!! Well, we still haven’t been there (passed through on the overnight train to Beijing), but will get to it…And if you have some pics (lovely descriptions by the way) we will happily put them up!!

]]> By: FOARP http://blogofdreams.com/2008/01/27/jiangsu-province/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 FOARP Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:20:31 +0000 http://blogofdreams.com/2008/01/27/jiangsu-province/#comment-1390 Why does Nanjing barely get a look-in in this piece? Largest city in Jiangsu and a place which has a lot more to offer than just Sun Yatsen's tomb - there's the whole area around Xuanwu lake (does Lianyungang also have a Xuanwu lake? I've never been there), there's Yuhuatai, there's Purple Mountain, there's the ruins of the Ming Palace and the old city walls, the restaurants in Shizi Qiao, the Confucius temple area and the museum to the Taiping Kingdom - there's a lot more that could have been mentioned but wasn't. Yixing is also home to one of the most beautiful public parks that I have seen in China - a place called Zhuhai (竹海) where the bamboo forest grows so thickly on the mountainside that when the wind blows it does genuinely look like a rolling sea of bamboo. Why does Nanjing barely get a look-in in this piece? Largest city in Jiangsu and a place which has a lot more to offer than just Sun Yatsen’s tomb - there’s the whole area around Xuanwu lake (does Lianyungang also have a Xuanwu lake? I’ve never been there), there’s Yuhuatai, there’s Purple Mountain, there’s the ruins of the Ming Palace and the old city walls, the restaurants in Shizi Qiao, the Confucius temple area and the museum to the Taiping Kingdom - there’s a lot more that could have been mentioned but wasn’t.

Yixing is also home to one of the most beautiful public parks that I have seen in China - a place called Zhuhai (竹海) where the bamboo forest grows so thickly on the mountainside that when the wind blows it does genuinely look like a rolling sea of bamboo.

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