Suzhou's Gardens...

We decided to stop in Suhzhou about an hour outside of Shanghai before making our way into Shanghai. We had read something about Suzhou being kind of a heaven on earth type of place so we thought it would be good to check out.

Most of Suzhou's gardens are now part of UNESCO's world heritage sites. We decided to go and check out one called "Master of the Nets". I must say at first impression, I was wondering where the garden was? It was a whole compound with houses and not much greenery.

It wasn't until we realized that the point of these gardens is to integrate it in with a home and not have a separate area with nice flowers and such like what we are used to.

All the rooms in some way flowed along with the gardens. It was actually quite soothing almost to walk through. Very peaceful.

On the other hand though, unless you are really really into Gardens, there's really no need to stay more than a night. I'm not sure where the heaven on earth tag came from but I didn't really see it there.