After 15 hours, I arrived in Nanjing. Starting to get into southern China now and the weather is getting nicer. After getting checked into my hostel, I returned to the train station to find out how to get to the Yangshan Stone Tablet. This place isn’t mentioned in any guidebooks, and it was difficult to figure out which bus to take there. Luckily, a woman approached me after a while and she was going the same direction and was getting a few people together to share a van. So that worked out well because I don’t know if I would have made it there otherwise.
The Yangshan Stone Tablet is, I think, the biggest partially quarried stone in the world. The emperor Yongle ordered to make it about 600 years ago, but it was just too big to move, so they stopped. They cut these three massive pieces. The plan was to stack the three stones up to reach over 70m tall. About half the height of the Washington Monument, but with only three stones. There was also a martial arts show there for some reason afterwards. There were very few tourists to see this place, since it is virtually unknown.
After finding a bus back to the train station, I went to Qixia Temple. Very scenic area, filled with autumn colors, caves, and I could see the foundation of emperor Qianlong’s palace which he setup in a nice area.