Slender West Lake

Rating:4.5/5

At here, the first thing I observed is that most of the boat rowers were woman. Our tour guide told us that by allowing women to row the boats, their actions would be more elegant and therefore be more pleasant to the eye. When we were there, I could see that many of the structures there were strongly influenced by the Chinese culture and the design of the buildings are quite rarely seen in Singapore. The structure there that gave me the deepest impression was the Five-Pavillion Bridge. It was one of the most beautiful oriental bridges I have ever seen. We had seen many other Chinese structures and also some special trees for example the tree that shivers when you scratch its trunk. This visit to the Slender West Lake is generally an enriching one and it was an eye-opener for us since we could see many of the beautiful and Chinese structures there. However, if I could improve on the trip, I would shorten the amount of time we spent there because the amount of free time we were was quite a lot and some of us were just wasting our time by loitering around in the end.

A location where one can take a picture of three different angle at one time. 
This is the place where the Emperor goes for fishing in the past. In the past, in order to satisfy the emperor and make him happy, the emperor's subordinates had to make sure the emperor manages to catch a big fish and have a big catch. In order to do that, they had to dive into the water and secretly hook the big fishes that they have previously caught onto the emperor's fishing hook. 

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The Five Pavilion Bridge
The middle pavilion is higher than the other four, which are spaced two on each side in perfect symmetry.All pavilions have their four corners upturned, with rows of tiles gathered up in the middle under a baoding (roof crown). The pavilions, lined up with short covered corridors, have yellow glazed tiles on the roofs but green ones for the curving ridges, forming a splendid contrast of colour. 

Due to its thin bark, this tree's branches shivers when one tickles its trunk. However, on that day since there were strong wind, the shivering of the branches to us were not very obvious and we did not see it very clearly. 

Low olden buildings along the Slender West Lake

A garden in the Slender West Lake where the name of the garden was purposely written messily in two different types of handwriting 

The type of wood which was used was said to be the best and the most expensive type, where only the richest people could afford it.

Boats rowing on the Slender West Lake
One observation we made was that most of the boat rowers were woman. We got to know from our tour guide that the reason why most of them were woman is because their actions would be more elegant and therefore more pleasing to the eye as compared to man.

A tree that was struck by lighting and split into two. There is also a plant growing on it to make it seemed as though that the tree is still alive.