The tortoise was performing “jump water“. In Chinese it is called “Tiao4Shui3” where “Tiao4” means jump and “Shui” means water. The correct word in English is call “diving“, but this word is ambiguous, therefore I use Chinese to explain it.

First, the tortoise stopped eating when it saw me shooting at him, it paused for a while and feel that its same to continue eating.

When the tortoise opened its mouth to the maximum level, it automatically closed its eyes, at the same time its eyes skin reflected the lights directly into the lens of my camera that’s why its eyes turn white when it was eating the KangKong.

Can you hear that it make some noise when it was eating? It must have sharp teeth.

Do you notice that the tortoise shell was not touching the ground when it was moving? This happen not only to tortoise, but the lizards on the wall in our house. Believe it? Find a lizard in your house and see how it walks.

This is how the garden in Sam Poh Tong looks like. There are Koi fish in the pond.

This will be the last episod of Sam Poh Tong series until our next visit. You can have a look at the following for the previous posts in this series.

Sam Poh Tong Part 1 - Beautiful Pond
Sam Poh Tong Part 2 - Quiet Garden
Sam Poh Tong Part 3 - Hidden Garden
Sam Poh Tong Part 4 - Our Photos
Sam Poh Tong Part 5 - Tortoises