Green Tea and Paying Respect in Nanjing

For this part of the trip, we got to visit a tea farm in Hanzhou before we left for Nanjing, where the best Dragon Well green tea in China is produced. It was a really quaint little place and we got to sample some of the tea.

Beautiful example of an old Chinese farm

The area maintained a lot of the olden structures and decorations, red lanterns can be seen everywhere.

The leaves of the tea were edible and had a nice crunchy texture to them.

It was strange eating dried eating tea leaves, but the taste was OK

Afterwards, we drove for four hours to the ancient capital of Nanjing where we visited the tomb of Dr. Sun-Yat Sen. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was the founding father of the Republic of China. He was the first president in China and helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty.  Even though there were lots of people there that day, the experience was still intimate and interesting.

If you notice from the photo above, it's quite rare to see a Chinese styled building to have a blue tiled roof. The designer of the memorial area wanted to use the colours of the flag of the Chinese Democratic Party that Dr. Sun founded.

Overall, the memorial was beautiful and I'm really happy the Chinese government decided to keep the place despite their political differences.

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