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Carefree Garden This park is in the middle of Wuxi and has a lot of history. Apparantly the water here was well known all over China for its superb quality for tea. One emperor had the water shipped hundreds of kilometers away to his palace, because of its quality. |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Garden There were some very old trees in this garden - from memory there was a Ginko Tree that was around 1000 years old. |
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Our Guide and Me- Carefree Gardens |
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Carefree Garden |
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Carefree Gardens |
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Gardens - Wuxi |
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Bronze Fountain - Long Shan Park If you look at the Wuxi Images you can get an idea of the size of this in contrast to people - it is huge. |
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Happy Buddha - Ling Shan Park |
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Rob Standing by the Buddhas Big Toe If you go back to the "Images of Wuxi" you will see images of the 88 meter tall Buddha. |
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Me and the Hand of Buddha |
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Me in fronto of Ling Shan Park Copper Mural |
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Wuxi Rooftops |
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Old Wuxi Rooftops |
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More Rooftops Its good to see that there are some old buildings you can see - if you know where to look. |
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Old Tea House - Wuxi |
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The Old and the New Notice the dragon on the old building on the forefront of the piccy. |
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What Do You See Rob saw crosses - I saw swastikas !!!!! |
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Pagoda - Old Wuxi We climed to the top and as we got to the 2nd to top level I felt this drip drip drip on my head. Winding my way up the final narrow stairs 3 chinese boys came down - bastards had urinated on the floor and it was dripping thru the cracks in the wooden floor !!!! I was less than impressed. |
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Pagoda Looks like it is on a lean - but it is not. |
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Old Wuxi Market Area |
