Saturday, August 29, 2015

Xi'an Expo Park

We spent our Saturday at the Xi'an Expo Park. It was unbelievably huge and beautiful. The park includes Guangyan Lake, which was an important ancient Chinese port. In total, the park is about two square miles. It's so big that we paid about $5 a person and rented a golf cart to take us around the park.
The park included a European garden, a bronze garden, traditional Chinese gardens, a modern garden and gardens reminiscent of Thailand and the Philippines.
We saw a lot of couples taking wedding photos at the park, and there were a lot of photography businesses located in the European section.
My kids really liked the maze garden and "the garden of 10,000 bridges" it was a path surrounded by bamboo and it periodically had beautiful red bridges that took you above the tree line. It was a beautiful view, but I almost passed out walking up those stairs!
The park also included some carnival rides. We went on the Ferris Wheel and the girls and I went on a roller coaster. Brandon's back is still bothering him so he had to sit that one out. Middle daughter loved both of the rides and laughed throughout the roller coaster. Oldest daughter had her eyes closed the whole time and told me it was horrible.









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