Darling Harbour (NSW) Chinese Garden of Friendship - FREE Open Day - Sunday, 25 October 2009

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Lwitherwings on 04/10/2009 - 12:10 darlingharbour.com (881 clicks)
Last edited 04/10/2009 - 20:13 by 1 other user

As part of Darling Harbour's 21st anniversary celebrations, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority will open the doors to the Chinese Garden of Friendship for FREE on Sunday 25 October.

The Open Day will commemorate the Garden's anniversary and the close bond which was forged between the local Chinese community and Sydney's sister city Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, China to share their heritage in Australia through a garden of friendship.

The Garden, designed and built by Chinese landscape architects and gardners, opened in 1988 as part of Australia's Bicentenary. The Garden is one of the few traditional public Chinese gardens created outside Asia that offers a rare opportunity to experience century-old traditions of Chinese landscaping, architecture and garden design.

Chinese Garden Costume HireCelebrate the Garden's heritage with friends and family on this special FREE Open Day. Explore the Garden's hidden pathways, enchanting pavillions, waterfalls and lakes, and relax over Chinese tea at the Garden teahouse.

Simply arrive at the Gardens, where you will be allowed free entry. Please consider that there may be many visitors coming to the Garden on this day and there may be a short wait to enter.

Date: Sunday 25 October 2009
Time: 09.30 AM - 05.30 PM
Cost: FREE
For more information: 9240 8888

I believe the usual price is $6 for adults / $3 for children / $15 family so it is a small saving but still a good one.

This is my first post! I thought it would be good to give back to the OzBargain community after picking up so many fantastic deals here over the past few months =D

Mod - edited title, corrected category and edited description.

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  Son of Matrix on 04/10/2009 - 15:06

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  Thanks. Mum is coming to visit so will be bringing her there. :)

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    [Deactivated] on 04/10/2009 - 15:42

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    can I come too?

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      mr_asstight on 04/10/2009 - 16:54

      +1

      Yes. Yes you can.

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        Doey21 on 04/10/2009 - 23:19

        Hey so does that mean your mum is the matrix? I wish my mum was the matrix.

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          [Deactivated] on 05/10/2009 - 00:32

          @Doey21: Sounds like the punch line to a "yo momma so fat…" joke :p

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          Son of Matrix on 05/10/2009 - 20:44

          @Doey21: All are born from the matrix…

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      Son of Matrix on 05/10/2009 - 20:44

      lol…meet me at the entrance with your mum

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  tiberio on 04/10/2009 - 19:19

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  I'm not voting positive or negative.. It's free so that's a plus, but on the other hand there will be a lot of people there that day taking advantage of the promotion. I often go to the Chine Garden and what I like about it is that it's so quiet and peaceful. If there's heaps of people there then that will detract from it..

  Personally I'd pay the $6 or $3 and go on another day.

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    [Deactivated] on 04/10/2009 - 23:04

    Valid point, but still a good chance for people to have a quick look around, where they may have never thought of going or just weren't that into gardens to pay to see one.

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    Son of Matrix on 05/10/2009 - 20:46

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    Come on… vote it for the OP. it's his/her first post and it's a bargain. just one click that it takes.

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    lisss on 10/10/2009 - 21:44

    Thats exactly what I think and why I'm not placing a vote. Its a small garden and lots of people would definitely spoil it- it can even get busy on a full price day.

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    Candour on 11/10/2009 - 08:39

    it really does not matter how many people come
    a thing of beauty is a joy forever
    the best things in life are free

    all you need is a friend or two to walk through the various vistas in the peace and quiet inside you.
    you can then see the different forces of nature which have been allowed freedom and yet are part of a wider plan to elevate the spirit.

    in China there may be many tourists around you and we would miss seeing sights of beauty if we needed all of them to be excluded.
    Like the recent Chinese display where all the population was told to stay away!
    or the Olympics where security was so tight that people were denied their part.

    they only had a chance to be there by proxy through TV.

    while we see others look into their faces and see the joy and love they bring to the park and to our hearts.
    let our hearts open with sympathetic joy and happiness at others' pleasure too.

    we are all children of the universe
    as much as the seas and the stars we have a right to be here…

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  pull the lever on 04/10/2009 - 22:36

  +5

  Haha it's going to be swamped with bargainers! Maybe it'll be a good time to meet the people here @ozbargain, and whinge about things like COTD bait-a-thon over cups of coffee =p

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    Doey21 on 04/10/2009 - 23:20

    LOL every1 can wear badges with the orange square and word
    "oz" in it

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  Candour on 04/10/2009 - 22:40

  thank you
  beautiful place

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  CyberMurning on 05/10/2009 - 09:20

  i hope they will limit the # of ppl who can go in at a time to avoid overcrowded

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    Candour on 05/10/2009 - 09:56

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    don't worry.
    it is a peaceful place and most people are too caught up with the other attractions to even bother.
    shows the timeless quality of Chinese Buddhist and daoist thought in landscape.
    But remember the regime which promotes this is the opposite of tolerance, kindness, and honesty.
    Just appreciate what they have given in silence.
    Do not confuse the two.

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      ironpaw on 07/10/2009 - 11:56

      What does Politics have to do with bargains?

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        Candour on 07/10/2009 - 23:41

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        lest we forget, there are regimes which act contrary to our civilised values and human rights and they use these gifts as tools to lull us into acquiescense when they thuggishly aggress the Dalai Lama, or attempt to disenfranchise a democratic Taiwan.
        We should embrace the deep culture of the Chinese which transcends the facade of grandeur at the olympics while they continued to torture their own citizens for political ends, or recently arrested Australian businessmen for stealing state secrets.
        We forget these unpleasant truths sometimes.
        I will be there to enjoy the gardens and pay my respects to the humanity of the chinese which will overcome their oppressors one day…
        My message was that we should not extrapolate the gift to the giver without knowing his agendas.
        I am sorry to have to spell this out and risk overstating the case.
        See you all there.
        In truth, compassion and tolerance as their moral movement found was unacceptable -falun Gong was summarily banned for just trying to reform individuals but even that was too much of a threat.

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          Duriankun on 23/10/2009 - 14:38

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          @Candour: lol? speak australian please or layman terms.
          falun gong - freaky stuff

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            Candour on 25/10/2009 - 08:14

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            @Duriankun: sorry but there is no translation for foreign names of social movements from other countries.
            try googling if you need more info.
            how would we australianise terms like nazi or foreign names like german or swedish?
            we learn these terms.
            surprised you actually knew the freaky terms 'dalai lama','chinese' and 'buddhist'.
            i thought spoon feeding was passe, what teachers used to call the jug to mug theory
            pouring in knowledge into an open mug in the shape of a half opened empty passive brain