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<\/a><\/p>\nThis was part of a display on the lake shore near the entrance.<\/p>\n
This is the bridge to the island within the lake on which the White Dogba, just visible through the gloom, and other buildings are found.<\/p>\n These people, and others,\u00a0were dancing to the right of the end of the bridge shown in the previous photo.\u00a0 They appear to be from a western China minority and were obviously enjoying themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 It is common for Chinese to sing and dance in parks or open places.\u00a0 Sometimes it is a group effort such as this, sometimes an individual or pair and sometimes a busking effort.\u00a0 When I was about to leave the island I sat on one of the seats for a rest.\u00a0 The woman already there had been quietly singing while a musical something played beneath a cloth on her lap.\u00a0 She stopped singing for about 5 minutes and then resumed, but disappeared soon after I did.<\/p>\n This building is behind the tall tower gate entrance at the other end of the bridge from the first photo.\u00a0 The bronze critters are shiny because people rub and fondle them.\u00a0 The entrance in the building leads into a temple.<\/p>\n Inside the grounds of the temple.\u00a0 The red objects on the tree and also on an urn are for good luck and special wishes.\u00a0 ie visible demonstrations of prayers.<\/p>\n After a very long steep walk up stairs this is a shot of the top of the White Dogba and the ajoining temple\u00a0\u00a0glazed with buddha images.<\/p>\n This is one of the many Taihu stones shipped from Henan province hundreds of years ago.\u00a0 This is an attractive one on a bit of a goat track down from the pagoda but there were others composed into vast decorated underground caverns which I didn’t enter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Looking through a doorway in a tower within the park.<\/p>\n The\u00a0tower from the previous photo a couple of hours later.<\/p>\n There was a\u00a0\u00a0long curving corridor\u00a0 down near the water.\u00a0 A man was leading a tricycle\u00a0on which \u00a0some chairs were stacked.<\/p>\n The roof of the corridor was painted with squares of cranes.\u00a0 Each section was separated by a beam containing paintings of nature or Chinese tradition.<\/p>\n A boat which moved very fast.\u00a0 Small pedal and battery operated boats were available for hire.<\/p>\n I wandered into a restaurant complex.\u00a0 This was the view through one of the doorways into another courtyard.<\/p>\n The view into one of the gardens from the curved corridor.<\/p>\n Another gateway near the water.<\/p>\n A \u00a0more impressive gateway for the temples above the wall behind it. Flowers have been sculptured into urns and baskets.<\/p>\n Some of the figures on top of an imperial temple above the previous gateway.<\/p>\n Path through part of the gardens.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n