Yuyuan Garden
Shanghai
April 11, 2004
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This is a calm little respite in the heart of Shanghai,
a 400-year-old garden built by a son to please his
parents in their old age. (Don't get your hopes up,
Mom & Dad.) We spotted it on the tourist map and so
made our way down along the Bund on Sunday morning
and into the streets to find it. It's now surrounded
by a new, but traditionally styled, tourist mall, complete
with Sushi bar and Starbucks. (And yes, I am trying to
make just about every page on China include a
reference to Starbucks.)
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