This morning I changed hostels. The last one I stayed at had only two toilets for the entire building and everything was so cramped. The new one has a new location directly on one of the canals in the city and you can see traditional style buildings on both sides of the canal.
Today I visited the ruins of the Ming Dynasty Palace here in town. This was the capital of China in the early 1400’s. Then I visited the Nanjing Museum. And then I stopped by the south gate of the city, which gives you some perspective on how these cities used to look 100 years ago with huge walls and gates going tens of miles around the city.
Finally it was a visit to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall which is a museum about how 300,000 people died in this city during the Japanese occupation in World War II. It is the reason why most Chinese people hate Japanese to this date.