Friday, September 7, 2012

Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai

Yuyuan Garden is a beautiful garden in the middle of the Old City of Shanghai.  The garden was built in the mid 1500s and finally declared a national monument in the 1980s.  The garden is filled with traditional buildings that I've wanted to see ever since I was a kid.


The details of the buildings are amazing.  I love the tile roofs.  I noticed that some hadn't been cleaned in awhile.  So little green plants were growing between the tiles.  I loved how the light highlighted some of the plants.


I loved my time in this garden.  If I ever return to Shanghai, this is one place I will visit again in a heartbeat.

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