They say this banyan tree is over 800 years old.

The South City Gate (Nan Men)

The Bravo Hotel under the banyan rree on the other end of the lake.

Another view of the South City Gate

The only cafe or place to sit and buy a drink.

Check out this structure to the right. At first I thought it might be some sort of cafe.

Approaching the gazebo-looking cafe.

Getting closer to it.

A shot of the bridge from the empty gazebo-structure.

Experimenting with the exposure.

What I thought was a cafe was nothing more than an emply structure.

The walkway up.

At first I was bummed, then I realized there ware stores on both corners I could buy whatever I needed from for my own picnic.