Friendship Park

Hours before leaving Kuching, Aunty Andrea brought me to one of the most interesting park I've even been - Friendship Park. I'll explain why I thought so later in this post. So keep reading!

This is one of the main enterence into the park. Doesn't it remind you of China? LOL

A resting place for joggers and other people.

Haha, this symbolises the friendship between Malaysia and China.

Bamboo trees

Zheng He statue. Apparently the statue was shipped from China. Wow, imagine how much the shipping fee, time and effort would cost China.

Sarawak!

A map of Malaysia!

Guess what's this?

It's a wishing well! Its been so long since I last saw a wishing well. If I'm not mistaken, the last time I saw a wishing well we in Melaka and that was ages ago..

This is for sure Sarawakian made. Haha. It's also a resting place.

Palm trees.

This is the second main enterance from the other side of the park.

This is a statue of a bird (Hornbill) which symbolises Sarawak!

Apparently, this is a HUGE ROUND marble that is also shipped from China. Haha! How heavy would that be!

"友谊万岁" which basically means "Friendship Forever"

The cat on the other hand symbolises Kuching. If you don't know Malay, Kuching is cat in Malay. My aunties would always say, "Even though our state is called Kuching, we hardly have any cats here!" which is kinda true. Haha. Why did they call that state Kuching anyways?

someone's camera shy :O

Okay. So the reason to why I said that this park is one of the most interesting park I've ever seen is because it basically tells us a story. Half of the park shows us China while the other half shows us Malaysia. The ship with Shen Zheng's statue on it symbolises him leaving his country (China) to Malaysia. GEDDIT :D COOL AYE? They also pay attention of small details such as the trees. Half of the park has bamboo trees while the other half has palm trees. Each of the park represents their own country!

I think that it is a great place to have a walk if you feel stressed or even whenever you want to get some fresh air. I really really love the design of this park! If you do have time, make sure you visit it :)