Friday, May 19, 2017

The buddy bears

When I was in Berlin, I saw some bear statues scattered around the city. It turns out that they were the Buddy Bears, and last year they came to Penang. (Now that I'm done with my delayed posts for 2017, here we go back in time to 2016!)

It's been so long, I don't even know whether I initially had something in particular to say about the bears. So I guess this post will be mainly filled with photos.

The bears were arranged in a huge circle. I was standing here:


And there is the far end.


There were so many bears, one for each country.






We took photos with a special bear standing on its own. There were actually a few standing on their own, outside the main circle.







the Malaysian bear










two special Malaysian bears





We missed the French bear during out first round, so we turned back to look for it. Luckily we noticed that the bears were standing in alphabetical order. When we found the bear, it was no wonder that we missed it:



Pretty ugly, actually. The bear's tummy is supposed to represent things that France is famous for.

(P.S. I'm too lazy to zoom in and check where each bear is from, but you can take a look at the plaque in front of the bear if you're interested. Good luck! :P )

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