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The market looked amazing - I could have spent hours wandering there what a variety. Loved how many different kinds of berries, tomatoes, peaches, olives they had....I don't think I ever seen a variety such as that.
I loved seeing the donut peaches, I have to tell you I never knew these exsisted until this year when some of the fruit stores by me starting selling them. They are very delicious.
Great update! Love, love, love the public market. I don't think I could have resisted those strawberries either. So glad the tasted as good as they looked. Can't wait for the next update.
That was a beautiful view to enjoy while eating lunch. That really is an amazing park. Everything looked so good at the public market! Such colors!
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Wow, you weren't kidding! Everything looked so vibrant and fresh...and delicious! I know I would've bought a lot more to try, even if I had just eaten. I can't resist such beautiful fruit! I think I could've spent an entire day at that Market and then some!
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Monday 29 August – part six: this place has some seriously odd people in it!
Soon we were arriving in Chinatown, which is a lovely part of the city, although Joy told me the divide between “good” and “bad” Chinatown is quite close, so I was glad that we’d literally be stopping to visit one thing and would then be off again.
We were stopping to visit the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden, which was the first of its kind to be built outside of China. It represents the Chinese gardens during the Ming dynasty. I will say now that when we were dropped off outside them, I did think that perhaps I’d made a mistake coming here. They were to the left of the bus, enclosed behind white walls, and really they didn’t look very big at all. Still, I’d heard good things about them and seen beautiful photos, so we paid our $15 each and headed inside.
My goodness, talk about appearances being deceptive! It was absolutely beautiful inside. We were immediately all impressed and began snapping away, trying to capture its beauty.
By the time we finished our tour, we still hadn’t manage to fathom out how to get to the other area that we’d seen and we were feeling very silly by now. After all, we’d seen lots of people over here. We must be the only idiots who couldn’t work out how to get there.
I think it was Mark who suggested that it might be separate and then Joy mentioned that she thought she’d seen an entrance further up, so as we came out, we decided to walk up and see if we could get in, not expecting it to be free for one moment. : However, it was! It was the neighbouring park and we headed inside.
Although the views from the garden had been very beautiful, we could instantly see why you paid for the gardens and not the park, as the views from the former were so much better.
We also found some really odd people in here. There was the guy walking a cat – yes seriously! Sadly, it happened so fast, I didn’t manage to get a photo of that. However, I did capture the guy who looked as if he was about to jump in the water, although he didn’t the whole time we were there...
... and the guy who put his camera into the water – we can only assume it was waterproof...
As I say, some very odd sights. I think we were all a bit relieved to get out of there and away from the nutters...
The Chinese garden is beautiful! It's very nice that there's a free park as well, even if it's not as lush as the garden. You did see some odd characters!
More beautiful photos! Love the photos of the public market. It was impossible to pass by all that luscious fruit and not buy some (we bought grapes and raspberries ). The Chinese garden was beautiful. It looked so peaceful. Now, the park with the nutters, maybe not so peaceful but it sure looked interesting.
That park is gorgeous, and certainly looks like so many I've seen in China - very authentic!
Looking for crazy folks is one of my favorite things to do when I'm touring around!
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It was absolutely beautiful inside. 
: However, it was! 
It was the neighbouring park and we headed inside. 
). The Chinese garden was beautiful. It looked so peaceful. Now, the park with the nutters, maybe not so peaceful but it sure looked interesting.
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