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- 9:56am, so just over an hour to reach our first destination. The Yuyuan Garden Station.
- A quick look around while I try to get my barrings and then lead our group to the gardens.
- This sign was more help than it looks since I had printed out the Chinese characters for the garden.
- We were to walk down this street.
- This street sign was much more helpful. It confirmed we were on the correct road (across the street was the Metro station we arrived at).
- A lot of traffic in that direction, we were not going that way though.
- Notice the gold dragon on the sign post.
- The street had several stores/kiosks.
- Walking along...
- Found the mall area where the garden was, this was no problem. Finding the Garden entrance inside the marketplace was my next challenge. Our goal the Yu Garden.
- We entered on the Yu Yuan Old Street.
- The market opened to a square.. some familiar signs here.. they really did not seem to go with the architecture.
- To one side this view, behind it the modern city.
- To the right a Starbucks..
- This was great. This guy would take your picture and print it on the spot for you. Of course he set up shop right in the middle of a narrow and crowded walkway.
- Here is a picture of the walkway. Our goal was at the other side by those trees.. so almost to our first destination of the day.
- Near the entrance to the Yu Garden. The city rising behind.
- Looking back.
- Some geese.
- After paying our entrance fee we entered the garden and the crowd became very thin. Here is a map of the garden.
- First up this rock outside the Sansui Hall.
- The Sansui Hall entrance
- Nearby rock formation.
- The side of the Sansui Hall
- Moving further into the garden.
- Some of the ornamentation.
- The rock garden with the Yixiu Pavilion on the right (if I am reading the map correctly).
- These rocks were called the Huge Rockery (not on the map but luckily I took a picture of the plaque below).
- Moving on to the next sectin.
- Some directional signs, the path goes in a big loop so these are really just to help point out the sights.
- Some areas have no safety rails.
- Renovation/restoration underway.
- This wraps up the garden tour
- We were close to where we started. Time to find our way out.
- The Dairy Queen Menu, it was still before 11am so too early for ice cream.
- We made it outside the market and onto the street, this is the back side of the garden.
- Time to set off into the city for a few blocks to find our way to our next stop, the Bund.