Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory is one of the most famous Observatory in China, is located in Nanjing City in the eastern outskirts of the picturesque Purple Mountain on the third peak, is a national key cultural relics protection units, covers an area of about 700 square meters. It is China's first modern astronomical research institute, known as "the cradle of modern astronomy in china".

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Most of the main tourist attractions are on the south side of the mountain.  Hiking trails crisscross the mountain in every direction.

The mountain can be seen west of the city. It is near the main train station called Nanjing Train Station (or Nanjing North Train Station).

Take Bus No. 9 or Bus Y1 from the city. You can catch Bus No. 9 at Xinjiekou. Many other buses go there.

Purple Mountain is called the lung of Nanjing city since it`s a mountain in side of Nanjing citi wall, and covers by tons of trees, it give us fresh air everyday, clearn the pollution.

Every month i will go to Purple Mountain at least 3 times hikking with friends to keep fit. We like there very much.

I like hiking at Purple Mountain, every 2 weeks i will go there on the Sunday morning with group of friends.  It makes us feel relax and a relief from the busy working week. And we realized more and more young people like us go to Purple Mountain hiking which we think is a good thing and we should support that, but in another way, you can tell how much pressure we are having now in China.