So we spent the afternoon wandering around our apartment area… which took us to Yuyuan Garden, a garden built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) many many moons ago. It’s basically now a tourist hotspot, with lots of little shops and stalls spruiking their wares and a TON of seedy looking guys sidling up to you going “watchbag” incessantly. Yep, you definitely are in tourist central!

Yuyuan garden has a lot of little bits and bobs to see though, and we would have thoroughly enjoyed poking our noses around and checking it all out.. if not for the MASSIVE crowds. Our jaws dropped when we walked close – the plate was literally PACKED TO THE BRIM. Unbelievably so. It was basically shoulder-to-shoulder contact with everyone, and you couldn’t really move. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people in my personal space and worse, people touching me *shudders*. So I lasted for only a few minutes before I felt like I’d go insane, and we squeezed ourselves out of the place.

It’s odd, because “Yu” in Chinese means pleasing and satisfying, and this garden was specially built for a place for the people to enjoy a tranquil and happy time in their old age. I couldn’t imagine anything further from the truth 😛 I think we’ll go check it out when it’s less crowded…..

We headed outside, turned a corner, and found ourselves in a sort of pet street! It was like an open-air mall on the street, with loads of small stalls selling the most adorable animals – puppies, kittens, rabbits, hamsters, chinchillas, etc… All the animals looked really clean, well-fed and healthy. I was a bit surprised, thought I’d find really poorly-treated animals but nope, they looked even healthier and cleaner than the ones in Australian pet stores! Of course we looked all round for ferrets but there were none 🙁 They had chinchillas though which were so so tame and adorable and cuddly and SUPER SOFT!!!! It was heartbreaking to walk away from the place without a puppy or a chinchilla… ahhhh…..

Small side streets in the city

At Yuyuan Garden

Really unattractive photo of us!

Man it was packed….

More people than you can shake a stick at

So we escaped after 5 minutes and found a little street that sold cute pets!

Really smart bird that was taught to do all sorts of tricks

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