I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 561.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about the ancient walls, temples, street food, and history of

Nanjing China.

We also along the way talk about a war started in Nanjing

that may have been the bloodiest in the history of the world

that I had never heard of,

and that isn't the strangest thing about it.

I'm your host Chris Christensen and stay tuned for Nanjing, China.

I'd like to welcome the show Wendy Wernith who's come to us from the nomadic vegan.com, a travel

blogger there and has come to talk to us about Nanjing China. Wendy

welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Chris. I'm excited to be here.

Sorry, I'm in a weird mood because I am highly jet-lagged at this point, and I thought, I'm just thinking,

well, don't worry, that wears off.

But you've come to talk to us about Nanjing, China. Why should we go to Nanjing?

Well, there are a lot of reasons to go to Nanjing, and sadly I think it's often overlooked by visitors to China, which is understandable because China is such a huge country and there are so many options of things to see and generally people have at most a one month visa and a lot of people have a lot less time than that.

And because it's so close to Shanghai, people end up just going to Shanghai instead of Nanjing, but Nanjing, it's a shame that it gets passed over because it has such an illustrious history and such a long and really important history in China.

I believe, Chris, you know a little bit of Chinese

if I'm right, don't you?

A increasingly small amount of Chinese.

Oh, that's exactly how I feel about my Chinese. I used to be very, very

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