Slender West Lake: How Water Became a Sequence of Views
A narrow waterway, linked gardens, bridges and pavilions show how Yangzhou’s landscape was composed over time.
Slender West Lake
A waterside counterpart to Yangzhou’s enclosed gardens.
Slender West Lake is one of the Yangzhou landscapes presented to overseas travelers by Scott Dunn, alongside Daming Temple and local craft experiences. In this collection it provides a wider landscape context for the more concentrated seasonal design explored at Geyuan.
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The White Pagoda sets a vertical marker beside the long water views.Amarespeco · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized down only; converted to WebP.