Our 2008 China Eclipse Trip - Page 19

Gardens in the City of Suzhou

A good friend will accompany us to Suzhou and we will spend two days touring the gardens and perhaps a silk factory.

Mid Lake Pavilion of the West Garden in the City of Suzhou. Nearby the Lingering Gardens, West Garden (Xiyuan) was given to a Buddhist monastery. The temple was destroyed in the Taiping Rebellion, and then rebuilt. Suzhou was spared destruction during World War II, and its private gardens, as well as its canals, have survived over the centuries.