Purple Bamboo Park

Purple Bamboo Park is a large park with gardens and a lake two or three miles from our apartment. The busy city is all around, and you never quite get away from the traffic noise, but since there is an entrance fee (2 yuan), it is uncrowded and quite peaceful. We went there at the end of the day, when the weather was trying to clear, but never quite made it. The guide books and websites all call the park "Purple Bamboo", but the proper translation is probably "Black Bamboo". We never did find the fortune Blessed Garden - maybe it was the part under piles of rubble being rennovated, as so much of Beijing is right now.




Wedding Photos


Pretty Duck
An interesting part of the park is a "stone chess" playground, with life size carved chess pieces for kids to climb on, and chess puzzles carved into rocks or sculpted out of concrete.




Stone Chess


Flowering Shrubs


Sunset