Place to see: City Wall, Nanjing, China

About this place:

Nanjing has city walls. Has had them for a very long time. Of course the city has grown far beyond them in the last several hundred years.

These walls are free to walk on in some places, like around Qing Liang Men, but in other, more well restored parts it cost 15 Yuan to get up there. There are monasteries near the walls but those cost extra to go into.

On top of the walls local people sometimes go hunting for specific mosses and other plants.

Many of the bricks on the wall still have the inscriptions of the factory and foreman responsible for the brick stamped into them from 600 years ago. That accountability was said to have been the reason the walls stayed up so well; people knew who to come after if it started to crumble.