Malta: Day 12: Chinese Garden
Did you know that you could stay in Malta for exactly one year and visit a different church every day? That's right, there is an impressive 365 churches dotted around Malta and its sister island of Gozo. Well, for New Year's Day, Nada and me visited the Chinese Garden of Serenity.
Previous days of our trip to Malta: Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2 and Day 1.
In Paola
Officially opened in 1997, the "Serenity Garden" in Santa Luċija is a landscaped garden in Chinese style and is designed as a symbol of the journey of life from birth to death.
The Chinese gardens are idealized miniature landscapes, which are meant to express the harmony that should exist between man and nature.
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| The fountain at the very beginning of the garden is the figure of birth. |
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| The water is the spirit of the world |
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| Chinese Garden of Serenity is free to the public, and was officially opened in 1997. |
Sculptures in the garden
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| The garden has fountains, a zig zag formed corridors, bridges, different types of doors with their own specific meaning. |
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| The most important elements of the Chinese Garden of Serenity are rocks and water which creates a beautiful and very peaceful garden and also symbolises yin and yang, life from birth to death. |
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| When walking around the garden, you discover that the garden is in fact not one large garden but instead several smaller gardens, separated by walls, sheltered corridors and rooms for visitors to be able to go between one thought to another in each garden. |
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| Go player |
After a geocache we moved on to the Tarxien Temples, discovered in 1914 by local farmers ploughing a field.
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| The Tarxien Temples date to approximately 3150 BC. |
GeoCache found:
- Chinese Garden of Serenity - Ġnien is-Serenità, Multi, GC5RGZP, which received a visit by trackable items "Bryan 2014 Tag", TB6PQA1, "2008 Groundspeak Volunteer Geocoin - sponsored by GC-KNECHT", TB20DYH, "Proving Trail Geocoin", TB2GZV8, La licorne montoise", TB7J5G7, "Der Kleine Maulwurf", TB61FZ4, "gran san bernardo", TB84C9J, "De reiziger", TB6R4VV and "FarmtagZ klompendans", TB6BAG2
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