Sunday, May 15,2016 Chinese Garden and Aquarium in Vancouver
We started out the morning by visiting the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. It is a Ming Dynasty Scholars Garden which brought us back into the 15th century. There is great architecture throughout from buildings to rock walls, stones that came from China and placed just so. Plant, trees and flowers, Koi fish and a fat Heron. There is a lot of symbolism(yin and yang) from the balance of trimming the trees just right, to placing stone on the pathways to the windows that are all around. We all learned a lot from our guide, Mary who was very informative. The way she told the gardens story made us all have a new understanding of how much work and time go into making a true Chinese garden.
We did the morning at the gardens so the afternoon was spent at the aquarium. We got to see some things that we never have seen. The beluga whale, harbor porpoises and a false killer whale, all kinds of sea creatures. It was much bigger than the aquariums we have seen in the past.
All in all it was a pretty full day.
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| A CAVE |
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| A GROTTO |
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| A MOUNTAIN |
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| A RIVER |
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| A POND |
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| WATER LILY |
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| BIG FAT HERON |
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| A WINDOW AS A PICTURE FRAME ALWAYS CHANGING |
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| MALE LION |
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| FEMALE LION |
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| FALSE KILLER WHALE |
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| SEA OTTER |
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| BELUGA |
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| AFRICAN PENGUINS |
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| HARBOR PORPOISE |
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| BAT STAR |
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| A SEAHORSE |
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