Bears, bears and more bears!

We stumbled upon this exhibit as we were exploring St. Petersburg. This is the United Buddy Bears exhibit, the goal is to promote tolerance and understanding among nations, cultures and religions. There were 143 bears representing as many countries recognized by the United Nations. EAch bear is designed by an artist from that country, showing the different styles yet the unity of art from each country. The bears are standing hand in hand to symbolize the future vision of a peaceful world. This exhibit is on a world tour, 25 countries on 5 continents.

This one above represents Malaysia.

This comes from Mozambique.

These golden bears above had all the ways to say the golden rule in different languages.

Carly getting cozy with this bear. Look at his face!

I guess you can tell which country this bear represents.

This guy was hanging out with his monkey. Gotta have a monkey, right?