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The newfangled monorail that ferried visitors from Seattle's dowdy downtown to the fair's gleaming pavilions owed more to Disneyland of the 1950s than it did to the future.
Turtle Head Island (Yuantouzhu) is actually a peninsula at the edge of Lake Tai, a sanctuary of trees, flowers, bridges, and lake-viewing pavilions that began as a garden in 1918.
The pavilions, pagodas, and rookeries on the northeast shore are known collectively as the Gardens Within Gardens, where the imperial court once enjoyed the lake.
At the rear of Wanshou Temple is a large rock garden with shrines to the gods of three of Buddhism’s sacred mountains in China, two pavilions built in 1761 (one housing a stone tablet with the engraved signature of Emperor Qianlong), and two arched gates constructed in the style of 18th-century Europe.
The landscape beyond the palace compound features many of the romantic elements of Chinese tradition: interconnected lakes and lotus ponds, forests, causeways and arched bridges, ornate pavilions, and towering pagodas.