Sunday has become our day to run errands or do a little sightseeing. Last Sunday was errands - shoe shopping. This Sunday we checked out the Lion Grove Garden in the northeast corner of downtown Suzhou. This garden was recommended to us by a family at church who said their kids loved it. Our kids loved it too.
The garden, like most Suzhou gardens, has water, some buildings with nice furniture, and a number of craggy rocks from nearby Taihu Lake. But the Lion Grove Garden is unique with the number of rocks and rock paths that wind throughout the property. The rock pathways through the garden wind around, over, and under each other offering wonderful views and lots of opportunity to bloody the top of one's head on a rock. The kids loved it because it was a riot of rock climbling, jumping, spelunking, and all with a high likelihood of falling onto a sharp rock or into the water.
Luckily, we had no such disaster - just a few abrasions on the coral-like rocks. A few more photos are posted at snapfish.com. We bribed the kids with ice cream to get the final picture above.
The garden, like most Suzhou gardens, has water, some buildings with nice furniture, and a number of craggy rocks from nearby Taihu Lake. But the Lion Grove Garden is unique with the number of rocks and rock paths that wind throughout the property. The rock pathways through the garden wind around, over, and under each other offering wonderful views and lots of opportunity to bloody the top of one's head on a rock. The kids loved it because it was a riot of rock climbling, jumping, spelunking, and all with a high likelihood of falling onto a sharp rock or into the water.
Luckily, we had no such disaster - just a few abrasions on the coral-like rocks. A few more photos are posted at snapfish.com. We bribed the kids with ice cream to get the final picture above.
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