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Home » Uncategorized » Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

January 10, 2013 by Karen Dawkins 21 Comments

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IMGP0027Guangzhou Yuexiu Park in  Guangdong, China offers a quiet reprieve from the 12.78 million residents of the city. The largest park in the city at 212.5 acres it features the Five Rams Sculpture, Zhenhai Tower, three man-made lakes, an amusement park, swimming pool, gym, museum, sculptures and an abundance of plants and flowers. Our walk through a tiny portion of Yuexiu Park was one of the highlights of our trip to Guangzhou.
This photo, at the Five Ram Sculpture, is the result of locals asking for a photo with our blonde kids.

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A pleasant surprise! I photographed the Zhenhai Tower and didn’t even know it was a significant element of the park until after our trip.

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Yuexiu Park includes seven hills, which means lots of stairs. We cracked up at our little monkeys who took the less conventional, more boy, route to the top.

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These photos offer a glimpse into this remarkable park. I hope to return one day when my daughter is old enough to appreciate the trip. Maybe the skies will clear and we can venture further into the park to appreciate all it has to offer.

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  1. Mary {The World Is A Book} says

    January 14, 2013 at 2:49 am

    Sounds like a wonderful trip and what a beautiful temple and park. I’ve always heard of blonde kids getting quite a lot of attention in many Asian countries and asked to be photographed. How interesting! Thanks for sharing this part of China with us.

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  2. Cody says

    January 11, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    What beautiful pics! I hope to be able to go to China one day. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 5:17 pm

      Cody,
      China should be on everyone’s travel list. The flight is long, so go with a buffer — a couple days to get accustomed to time changes — before you visit the sites you most want to see. If visiting Beijing, I’d visit the pearl shop, jade shops, Olympic village and other “little stuff” the first couple of days and save the Great Wall, Forbidden City, and other major sites for when less tired.
      Happy travel dreams!

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  3. Cynthia says

    January 11, 2013 at 1:10 pm

    I love how your “little monkeys” found their way up the stairs! I’d love to try that! This looks like an amazing place to visit!

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 5:12 pm

      Cynthia, are you feeling better? It was a great adventure. After being cooped up in the hotel for days because of rain, they were either going to climb the walls of the hotel or climb the walls of the park. It was such a relief to get out again!

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  4. Leigh @oneandoneequalstwinfun.com says

    January 11, 2013 at 9:14 am

    I love spending time in nature, but I also enjoy being visually stimulated by beautiful architecture – this looks like the perfect place for me to visit! Thanks for sharing 🙂
    Leigh

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 9:54 am

      I wonder if the twins would enjoy eel? 🙂

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  5. Pamela R says

    January 11, 2013 at 8:19 am

    what a wonderful adventure–I like the boys taking the sides–OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!! The views are great—a trip to China is a DREAM of mine =^D

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 9:52 am

      Thanks, Pamela. China wasn’t on my list of places to go. I was terrified to fly, but a 24 hour trip tends to cure that! I’m so thankful we went. We are trying to wait patiently to return.

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  6. Rosey says

    January 11, 2013 at 6:51 am

    Now THAT’S a trip to write home about!!! Awesome. 🙂

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 9:51 am

      Thanks, Rosey. Will you add China to your family vacation list? The one thing I wish we had included on our China trip was a trip to Hong Kong, so if you do go — include a couple days there as well.

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  7. jenny@atasteoftravel says

    January 11, 2013 at 5:01 am

    I love that the Chinese still want to take photos of your blonde children. I had the same request about twenty years ago but thought it may have disappeared by now!

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 9:50 am

      Nope! Not a bit. 🙂 Sadly, the squatty potties haven’t disappeared either.

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  8. Dominique Goh says

    January 11, 2013 at 4:19 am

    Whao..that park looks like really fun. HAven’t been there before but have been to Guangzhou 2-3 years ago.

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    • Karen says

      January 11, 2013 at 9:49 am

      Dominique, I’m so glad my daughter is from the Guangdong Province, because I have a great excuse to return! What did you get to do in Guangzhou?

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  9. Dominique Goh says

    January 11, 2013 at 4:10 am

    Lovely place in Guangzhou..haven’t been there yet..

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  10. Andrea says

    January 10, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    Looks like a cool trip. That’s so funny about wanting photos with the blondes!

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    • Karen says

      January 10, 2013 at 4:15 pm

      It was funny to us, but my second son (who was the blondest of us all), did not enjoy the attention. Ladies would rub his head as they passed by and once, near the Forbidden City, in Beijing, an old lady called out to her friends and had him surrounded in seconds. It was his one taste of Beiber fame and he is definitely not interested in having such notoriety ever again!

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  11. Courtney~Mommy LaDy Club says

    January 10, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    Oh, it looks gorgeous and adventurous! Some day I will make it to China!

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    • Karen says

      January 10, 2013 at 1:59 pm

      It’s well worth the trip! We hope to go back in a couple of years. Ellie wants to see where she was born (I think secretly she hopes to meet her birth mom, who we have NO info about). I do look forward to experiencing her birth culture through her eyes — surrounded by people who look like her! WOW!

      Reply

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