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| Craggy rocks near the bridge.
| A rock sculpture. As you'll see from the following pictures, this garden
is all about interesting and oddly-shaped rocks.
| At right, a path that winds through a jumble of rocks; at center; more of
the central pond; at left, the colonnade once again.
| A large rockery. I took this at a very high resolution so you can view
the full-sized image and see in detail the rocks and their crazy angles.
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| A 360 degree panoramic movie of the central pond in the Lion Forest Garden
and some of its many rockeries. Taken from near the main bridge.
| Another unusually shaped rock, this one in the pond.
| The rockery seen in the distance in the panoramic movie.
| I'm afraid I have to mark this photo excellent because of the way
it glows, but this makes me wonder why I didn't tag some earlier photos as
well.
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| The coolest natural rock statue yet. You can imagine this as almost
anything.
| A vertical panorama of one of the rock paths that go up and down over the
peninsula in the center of the garden.
| I think this rock looks like a robed monk.
| Rocks and a rock bridge.
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| Trails that climb rocks.
| I think I see a fox face on this statue. It's small. Do you see it?
Once I spotted the fox, I can't see anything else in this
statue.
Correction: I can sometimes see the whole statue as a bear on
its hind legs.
| A close-up of the fox face.
| A cement-locked ship.
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| A waterfall at the top of one rockery.
| A lovely path near one of the garden's upper corners.
| S and Di Yin taking a breather on the path.
| This looks down on the main bridge and its adjacent colonnade and rockery.
Excellent for its comprehensiveness and the superb foliage. Very
high resolution.
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| The zig-zag path leading to the lake's pavilion. Charming.
| Looking back across the pond to the main bridge. Note the roofs shaded
the walk adjacent to the walls.
| In a building, leafy wood reliefs around leafy wood reliefs.
| Another rockery, another winding path. I think the rock in the middle
(immediately to the right of the tree) looks like a nobleman / ruler.
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| The pond goes through a rock tunnel.
| As if you haven't seen enough rocks, this is yet another picture of them.
It's to show what one of the rock hills we climbed over looked like from
afar.
| Looking up out of a skylight in one of the tunnels in the hill.
Perhaps this rock is the face of a cat?
| Cool statues by the gable of a roof. I like the image's glow.
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| A close-up of the monk statue.
| I think Di Yin said these windows we spotted in the garden were
nationalist-era (pre-modern).
| A moon-inspired door.
Yes, I know the moon isn't shaped like
that, but it reminds me of a moon.
| A courtyard. A final shot of the garden, if only to show some of the
crowd we were avoiding throughout the garden.
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| Dinner at Mama Restaurant
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| We ate dinner sitting on these wagon-wheel benches at Mama Restaurant near
the garden.
| Fish were swimming under a glass part of the floor. This aquarium went
around the whole dining room. You can see it in the previous picture.
| Bamboo shoots in the same style as those we had at lunch, but not as good.
| These bamboo shoots are listed as hand (shou3) peeled (bao1) small (xiao3)
bamboo shoots (sun3).
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| Fish. Good, but had many tiny bones.
| The fish's translation is exact. tai4 hu2 bai2 yu2
| Napa cabbage cooked in chicken broth. This is a common dish and is good
(as usual).
| The cabbage is literally on-top-of (shang4) soup (shang1) baby (wa1 wa1)
vegetable (cai4). (The latter three characters often mean baby/napa
cabbage.)
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