Suzhou is famous for its dozens of magnificent gardens. I’m just not getting a feel for it in the pictures. I couldn’t get it at that huge garden in Shanghai either.
These are not gardens in the Victoria Gardens sense. Mostly the garden is filled with buildings, pavillions, colonnades, and walls, sometimes with little space between them, where you stand or sit inside and admire a small view framed by a feature of the building.
There are also inticate stone paths that lead from place to place, the more circuitous the better, plus water features, arching bridges, rock formations, and mirrored surfaces abound.