Describe a park or garden you like

The park I love most is a small one called Lumphini Park in central Bangkok. It's surrounded by the city's high-rises, which makes it feel like an island of green. I lived nearby for two years and used to go five mornings a week, usually around six o'clock. At that time the air is still cool, the elderly Thai-Chinese community is doing tai chi in groups under the trees, and there are huge water monitor lizards walking around the lake completely indifferent to people. I'd usually run two laps — about five kilometres — and then sit by the lake to drink an iced coffee from one of the carts. What I did there was simple but mattered. It was the only part of the day when my phone was off and I wasn't trying to be productive. The reason I like it isn't the park itself, exactly. It's that it forces a pause. Bangkok is loud and hurried; the park imposes a different speed on you the moment you enter. The trees soften the traffic noise within twenty metres. The light is softer because of the canopy. I have visited the bigger, more famous parks of the world, but I think about Lumphini more than any of them.