New- Zealand First Chinese Garden

A grand opening ceremony was held on the 8th of July 2008 to celebrate the opening of Dunedin Chinese Garden. After 8 months of hard core construction, Dunedin Chinese garden is officially open to tourists as well as Kiwis. The garden is located abreast with the Railway Station, between Dunedin central city( The Octagon) and the harbourside. Dunedin Chinese Garden is New Zealand’s only Chinese Garden, and the first in the Southern Hemisphere. Great news isn't it? It was pre-fabricated in Shanghai, then dismantled and transported or fleeted here. The decent Chinese Garden is based on a late Ming, early Ching Dynasty Scholar’s Garden, traditionally the focal point of a family compound. Tens of thousands of visitors visit the garden daily according to Otago Daily Times, the web and blogs . Due to the fact that I am a penny-pinching and miserly person or a niggard or cheapskate who does not willing to spend such money just to glance through the new Chinese Garden, I managed to find some Dunedin Chinese Gardens photos via the web. Despite the garden looks kinda poky (to me) and is not as opulent as compared to those gardens in China, it is still decent looking and satisfy the requirements of being a 'CHINESE' garden such as ginormous fish pond, intricate Chinese architecture designs on the apex of the roofs and window seals, elephantine shaped rocks along the ponds, Japanese Carps or goldfishes, jade green/ ink black / snow white pebbles embedded on the surfaces of pathways, corridors and pavements, Rock gardens and etc. The entrance fee for this garden is NZ5 for students or beneficiary and NZ8 for adults. So anyway, here are the photos.