Lion Forest Garden Suzhou

Suzhou , Jiangsu, China

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    shower song:- Korn-clown Today we visited my favourite garden, the lion forest garden, so called because the stones were supposed to look like lions. After the previous things we have seen with names like this that quite frankly needed the mind of an ...

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    ... which was built under the Ming Dynasty in 1509 AD. It is centered on a lake, and has the Ming Dynasty style, and The Lion Forest Garden, which is the only garden that has survived from the Yuan Dynasty. It is also known as the kingdom of rockery, and it ...

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    The Lion Forest Garden

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    Kait and I ventured one afternoon to yet another one of Suzhou's renowned gardens, The Lion Forest Garden. It is also called the "Kingdom of Rockeries, and is noted for its labyrinth man-made limestone mountains." Unfortunately, the weather was ...

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    Heaven and Earth

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    ... lions.  I think if you have an imagination and squint you could almost see any animal you want.  Walking into the Lion Forest Garden was to climb into a maze of rocks, at one point I was tunneling through twisting caves and the next I ...

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    ... a prominent family in Suzhou. For a period of time, I. M. Pei spent his childhood on his family's private garden, the Lion Forest Garden, in Suzhou. I. M. Pei said, "It did have an influence on my work." Since 1930s, he has designed many museums, ...

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    ... UNESCO World Heritage sites, all within a fifteen minute drive of each other! We visited both the Lingering Gardens and the Lion Forest Garden, as well as Tiger Hill--home to the leaning pagoda of Yunyansi. A visit to a silk factory also provided yet ...

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    ... as I watched the sprouting of 'new life'.  I loved the mazes/playgrounds made from stone structures in the Lion Forest Garden, and the immense amount of scenery in the Humble Administrator's Garden.  However, I arrived to these popular tourist ...

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