this is a famous garden in shanghai, and the area around it looks like it came from a chinese period drama, sort of.
there’re many food stalls and souvenir stalls in the bazaar surrounding the garden, and lots of touts trying to get you to go with them to see fake branded bags, sunglasses and shoes. it’s weird cos it’s so obvious that they’re trying to cheat you, yet there’re so many of them about that we wondered who actually goes along with them. i mean, it’s cos there are gullible tourists who do go along with them that they’re all congregating there right?
anyway, the garden is quite big, and i think it’s quite pretty too!
here are some pictures of it:
there’re lots of broad scenes like these two as the garden is very big
check out the size of this roof..
i like this pic (it wasnt taken by me, and neither were the 3 above, but i’m shamelessly stealing them!):
one part of yuyuan that i liked were the dragons that lined the walls. can you see the dragon head on the right and the body extending all the way to the left? notice also the deer-like animal atop a structure on the left:
the dragon up close:
rock installations are also a key feature of the garden. these are extremely popular in all the other gardens that i’d been to also, and i think they’re meant to be miniature representations of landscape? to be honest i’m not sure of the significance that they play in chinese gardens, and am a bit ashamed to admit that cos i went to quite a few gardens in my time there..
look at how big the rock structure is:
what i really liked were also the figures on the roofs – there were many many of them!:
there were also lots of koi in the pond!:
some other visitors had bought fish food and were feeding them, and the koi were fighting so hard to get food and one of them actually propelled itself up onto the stone walkway next to the pond!
a few more pictures of the garden:
outside the garden, we saw this creature, and i was trying to be poser the way china tourists are when taking photos..
lunch was some dimsum at this rather posh looking restaurant:
we also ordered some jasmine tea, but check out how ugly the flower is:
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