Spring is a brief, but lovely, season in Beijing. Last Sunday afternoon, I was in the general vicinity of Zhongshan Park, which is famous for its tulip exhibition. Going to see the tulips has been on my spring to-do list for several years now, but I’d never actually done it. It may be a bit cliche, since I’m from a town famous for having a festival for tulips, but tulips are one of my favorite flowers. I enjoyed wandering the park, discovering beds of many varieties of tulips. It made for a lovely few hours, but it still wasn’t quite the same as eating an elephant ear along a tulip lined street filled with Dutch dancers.
Enjoy my tiptoe through the tulips (or perhaps I should say, through the crowds, because there were lots of other people enjoying the tulips, too)!
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This is something that Holland doesn’t have–tulips with the red walls of the Forbidden City in the background!
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