Reflections in Chinatown

So, we went exploing Chinatown, seeing as how we had so far neglected it.

For some background, this Chinatown is supposed to be one of the biggest, most established in the world. There are over 100,000 Chinese in the city, only beaten in size by San Francisco, and they were the second group of foreigners to settle in the city, after the British.


However, for such an established Chinatown, it's actually surpisingly lacking in any overt 'chineseness'. In fact the dragon and the rather trippy-looking panda were more or less it. However, there were other things worth looking at there.

We spent most of our time in the Dr Sun Yat Sen park, which is next to the garden. Me and Hannah were keen for the garden itself, but Tabitha wasn't so keen to pay, so I'll leave that for another time. To be honest, for your own sanity, it's probably just as well because I got so over-enthusiastic with weird photos (as you will find out in a minute) that I can't imagine what would have happened if



So the park is free and public and very much in the style of the garden (so i'm told); rather pretty and in perfect juxtaposition to the city scape that looms behind:



However, having taken some normal, pretty photos of it, I had some sort of artistic fever come over me and decided that recording it through the reflections in the water was more fun (esp when you change the angle later...):




And sideways with leaves...

Trees, with leaves, in water...


Just one tree, but a very nice one:

And by far my favourite - brilliantly clear, and rather surreal:


So that was all rather fun. I do have some other Chinatown moments to put up, but I think i'll start a new post - this one might not cope with all the pixels...

Finally, I saw the maple leaves and thought of the blog, so i took the picture so it could go with the theme :)