Master of the Nets garden

  Then we rode to the Master of Nets Garden.  Suzhou is well known for its canals and gardens and this garden is suppose to be a good one.  So we toured the garden which was nice.  Then we rode to our next destination which was the Suzhou… Happy Birthday Steve!

There were many in Suzhou, I saw the biggest one, the Humble Administrators Garden, the smallest one, the Master of fishing nets garden, both are listed by UNESCO as world heritage sites. These were private gardens of scholars initially built in the Tang dynasty. Pavillions, ponds, winding corridors, graceful rooflines and paved courtyards were plenty. Even the small… day trip to Suzhou

I went to visit two: The Humble Administrators, a five-hectare garden with ponds, bridges and bamboo islands; and the Garden Of The Master Of Nets, a much smaller garden with the historical buildings more of a feature. The latter was hyped as the best in Suzhou, but I actually preferred the former as I enjoyed the maze of waterways, the bridges… The Gardens Of Suzhou