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Douglas M

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A Park with a Famous Bridge

2022年4月

A week ago, while SWMBO and I were walking back to the bus stop after another visit to ShiXiang Garden (TA reviewed) SWMBO spotted a sign to a XiaoGang Park. A week later, after the Tomb Sweeping holiday, I suggested a trip to XiaoGang Park as I was sure we’d never been there. “We’ve been there, to see an old bridge!” retorted SWMBO. After searching TA I came across my review for YunGui Bridge of June 2018, which is titled A Bridge in XiaoGang Park. Proof enough to verify the veracity of SWMBO’s memory.

SWMBO then trawled through GZ’s on-line bus routes and revealed that the #93 rather than the #546 bus was now the best option to get there. An hour or so later, after checking our SuiKang codes were green and SWMBO packing essentials such as mobile phone, tea, biscuits, umbrellas, bowls, chopsticks, and me mobile phone, Pentax camera and selfi-stick, we strolled to a local bus stop to get the #93 bus.

Note: a scanning mobile phone with your SuiKang health code app are now essentials in China. The SuiKang code includes your passport details and contact details. A face mask is mandatory on public transport.

The across the city ride to the park in the HaiZhu district took about 45 minutes. We passed Martyrs Park, in TA this is GZ Uprising Martyrs Cemetery (TA reviewed August 2018) which, from the bus, seemed to be closed. We crossed the ZhuJiang (Pearl River) by the JiangWan Bridge and on the south side looked down on The Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen (TA reviewed May 2018). We got off the bus at the YunGuiCun bus stop and the main gate of park was only a few metres further on.

SWMBO bought a couple of apples from the back of a small truck and then we adjusted our face masks, scanned the park’s QR code, then showed it to one of the An Bao (security chap) hovering around the main gate who after giving the thumbs-up to be big green arrow, waved us into the park.

I wouldn’t say memories came flooding back but they slowly emerged, and I was able to point in the direction on YunGui bridge, and off we strolled. We paused to eat share an apple, eat biscuits, and drink tea on one of the many benches.

On the way to the bridge, we passed a children’s playground and a few rides but since most kids were in school, they were deserted. I suspect the playground is heaving at the weekend.

The bridge is still intact, while the stones look good for another 400 years. There’s an information board next to it giving a rather detailed history in English.
Then we strolled around the park. The paths are smooth but undulate a little as they meander around the bamboo groves, seating areas, streams and flower beds. There were plenty of ben di ren (local people) strolling and exercising, and a sizeable gathering of snappers around a small waterfall waiting for a rare bird. I just hope their sake and the bird’s, that one of the many park cats hadn’t eaten it for lunch. From the small piles of cat biscuits we saw, the cats, like most park cats, have their aunties to look after them.

Lots of shady and sunny places to sit and admire the views over the lakes. As ever, the more you stroll the more you see. I didn’t know that the lake was once part of a small harbour (should have realized as this as gang means harbour), now it’s where the locals sit and dock their mobile phones and take selfies. There’s even a small exhibition of olive stone carvings, and a few memorials to martyrs, strangely none of them were locals. One has SWMBO’s family name so was particularly revered.

There’s a small shop for refreshments more or less in the middle of the park. And there are many clean toilets scattered around the park.

After three hours of strolling and sitting we arrived back at the main gate. A rush hour slow bus ride saw us back near home and a very nice dinner at our local Feng Yuan Xuan (Guangyuan branch) restaurant.

Note to self, I must get this branch on TA!