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i've started the new year off with something different (to my usual travel photos) -- a series of photos from a trip out to JinJi Lake (directly translated, Golden Rooster Lake) in Suzhou, which is known as the "Garden City" of China. i love the chevron shapes formed by the light and shadow along this walkway to a pagoda on the water off of the 1400m Li Gong Di causeway, one of the entertainment and restaurant districts of the JinJi Lake development.
JinJi Lake Park is located on the eastern outskirts of Suzhou and is the largest urban park with a lake in China. once made up of agricultural farmland and fish ponds, the lake side area has undergone major development over the past decade and a half in a joint venture with Singapore (costing over $47 million) to transform it into an industrial park and urban community of international standards. it now features a modern waterfront district with various neighbourhoods for recreation, entertainment, and culture.
according to the NYT -- in the 1630s, in the first manual on Chinese-style landscape gardening, Ji Cheng wrote, “The level surface of the lake is a boundless expanse of floating light.”
Suzhou, China
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i've started the new year off with something different (to my usual travel photos) -- a series of photos from a trip out to JinJi Lake (directly translated, Golden Rooster Lake) in Suzhou, which is known as the "Garden City" of China. i love the chevron shapes formed by the light and shadow along this walkway to a pagoda on the water off of the 1400m Li Gong Di causeway, one of the entertainment and restaurant districts of the JinJi Lake development.
JinJi Lake Park is located on the eastern outskirts of Suzhou and is the largest urban park with a lake in China. once made up of agricultural farmland and fish ponds, the lake side area has undergone major development over the past decade and a half in a joint venture with Singapore (costing over $47 million) to transform it into an industrial park and urban community of international standards. it now features a modern waterfront district with various neighbourhoods for recreation, entertainment, and culture.
according to the NYT -- in the 1630s, in the first manual on Chinese-style landscape gardening, Ji Cheng wrote, “The level surface of the lake is a boundless expanse of floating light.”
Suzhou, China