Today we arrived in Ma'anshan, a city of over a million people that almost noone in the US has heard of. It is the place where our older daughter Sara was born and lived until we adopted her. This is a steel-producing city in Anhui province on the southern bank of the Yangtze River. It is also known as the home of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, whose poetry (in translation) I love. We have an excellent local guide who met us at the airport in Nanjing (a 2 hour flight from Guangzhou) and drove with us 40 km to Ma'anshan.
We are staying in the Nanhu Hotel, a four star hotel that is perfectly comfortable and adequate for our needs. This afternoon we walked around South Lake, in a park right next to our hotel. Tomorrow we'll do some sightseeing, and also see the place where Sara was left by her birthparents. Monday we hope to visit the orphanage.
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