Sport & Leisure

Nanjing Century Star Skating Club is part of a national chain of ice rinks. Head down there during a week day when it is likely deserted at which time a two hour skate will set you back only ¥60....

Clean, professional, affordable, easy to find, and of course, excellent work.

Not even an hour away from the bustling commercial centre of Xinjiekou (???) is Nanjing's massive tourist magnet, Purple Mountain. It's a really strange to find that, so close to a place with an unending soundtrack of car horns...

As many of you would know, every major Chinese city used to be enclosed in massive stone walls to protect them from invading armies. After historical events such as globalisation made the walls somewhat redundant, it was up to...

When Chinese people decide to make a memorial, they don't mess around...this place is BIG. This is fair enough, considering the reasons this place exists. Yuhuatai is a massive memorial park, in a nutshell, because this area...

The western side of Purple Mountain, one of the area's highest peak, is home to one of China's oldest astronomical observatories. This area features not one but a few telescopes, as well as some ancient Chinese astronomical instruments, and...

The Drum Tower/Gulou (鼓楼) is the traditional centre of a Chinese city, and Nanjing’s is no exception. However, in contrast to drum towers in cities like Xi’an and Beijing, Nanjing’s is much smaller and not as large a tourist...