Xuanwu Lake

I found an apartment near Xuanwu lake and really like being so close to it. Whenever I've got time and its not too smoggy out I spend a couple hours walking around it. There are some places where there are very few people, which is something very special indeed in Nanjing.

For sixty yuan (ten dollars) you can rent
a small electric boat for an hour and go for a ride

The plaque read: "Water Goddess teasing naive boys"
or something like that.

There's got to be over a hundred stray cats around
the park; they don't care to be approached unless
you've got food, though. Many of them are very fat
from all the food people give them. I think several people
have made a ritual out of feeding them.

There's an incredibly long city wall which was built in the 11th century that surrounds the city and the Western shore of the lake. You can access the top and walk along all thirty kilometers of it.

The Zhifeng Tower was built by the same firm who did the Sears tower in Chicago.