Nanjing, a collage of stark yet stunning contrast. Courtesy of the Touch Nanjing tour, I spent four days, from September 9 to 12, cruising through the city’s green and leafy winding streets, sailing along its Yangtze River waters like the finless porpoise, and observing with fascination the way this once capital of the Middle Kingdom seamlessly weaves together ancient and contemporary, from architecture to thinking.
Something I learned along the way is that the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River has served as a constant habitat for the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise, aka the only remaining freshwater dolphin in the Yangtze after the Baiji dolphin was
