Lion Forest Garden Suzhou

Entry containing 6 photos titled: Lion Grove Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Boat trip on the moat at night, Kunqu Opera

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... the garden because it looked like it was going to rain and we didn't want to miss the garden. We went to the Lion Forest garden, which was huge and not what I was expecting at all. It wasn’t your typical oriental flowers and water features kind ...

... 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 ...

The Lion Garden On Thursday, June 7th, we visited the Lion Garden Forest, a garden built by Buddhist monks.  The garden is filled with limestone rocks eroded from centuries of moving water.  The water carved the rocks into ...

... 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 ...

... to share with you.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our very 1st stop was The Lion Forest Garden. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Grove_Garden) The first 6 photos were ...

... 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 ...

... (Lingering) Garden, Canglang (Surging Waves) Pavilion, Yipu Garden (Garden of Cultivation), Huanxiu (Embracing Beauty) Mountain Villa, Ouyuan (Couple's Garden Retreat) Garden, Shizilin (Lion Forest) Garden and Tuisiyuan (Retreat and Reflection) ...