Nanjing Ming city walls
September 10th 2012 In Nanjing I am staying in the purple palace hotel. My room is palatial and the breakfast buffet is fit for a palace. There is nothing particularly purple about the hotel. It called the purple palace because it is situated by the purple mountain. It is a mountain, but is green. I have seen different explanations for the name, that the rocks are purple or that the clouds over the mountain are purpl
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