The top ten must-see attractions in West Lake: Hangzhou Leifeng Pagoda Scenic Area, Songcheng, Zhejiang Hangzhou Xixi Wetland Tourism Area, Hangzhou Future World Park, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou Xishan National Forest Park, Hangzhou West Lake Lingshan Scenic spots, Hangzhou Lingyin Mountain, Hangzhou Prince Bay Park, Hangzhou North Summit Lingshun Temple.
1. Leifeng Pagoda Scenic Area in Hangzhou
Leifeng Pagoda, also known as Huangfei Pagoda and Xiguan Brick Pagoda, is located on Leifeng Mountain on the bank of Xihu Scenic Area in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Leifeng Pagoda was built by Qian Hongchu, King Zhongyi of Wuyue, to celebrate the birth of his beloved concubine Huang, so it was named "Emperor Concubine Pagoda". Later, because the peak on which it was located was called "Leifeng", it was gradually called "Leifeng Pagoda". "Leifeng Pagoda".
2. Songcheng
Songcheng is located in the Zhijiang Tourist Resort in Hangzhou, covering an area of ??about 300 acres. It is a large-scale man-made theme park in Hangzhou.
Song City takes "architecture as form and culture as soul" as its business philosophy and is built in the style of the Song Dynasty. The main building is based on the long scroll "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, and is based on the Song Dynasty book "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". Built in French style, it restores the urban style of the Song Dynasty and is a theme park in Hangzhou that reflects the cultural connotations of the two Song Dynasties.
3. Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park
Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park is located in the northwest of Xihu District and Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Together with West Lake and Xiling, it is known as the "Three Wests" of Hangzhou. ” is a national wetland park integrating urban wetlands, agricultural wetlands and cultural wetlands, and is known as the “Kidney of Hangzhou”.
The total area of ??Xixi National Wetland Park is approximately 11.5 square kilometers, which is divided into the eastern wetland ecological protection and cultivation area, the central wetland ecological tourism and leisure area, and the western wetland ecological landscape enclosure area; the park is rich in ecological resources and natural The landscape is elegant and the culture is profound. It mainly includes ecological protection areas, ecological restoration areas, historical relics protection areas and service facility areas.
4. Hangzhou Future World Park
Hangzhou Future World Amusement Co., Ltd., also known as Hangzhou Future World Amusement Park, is Asia's largest indoor and outdoor combined new generation amusement theme park. National AAAA level tourist area.
Hangzhou Future World Park covers a total area of ??250,000 square meters and consists of "Happy World", "Romantic Competition", "Brilliant Celebration", "Flower Shadow Avenue", "Colorful Square", "Dream Center" "It is composed of six major blocks.
Among them, the Dream Center is a huge indoor landscape with a construction area of ??16,000 square meters. It has an indoor artificial banyan tree and tropical rainforest that set the Guinness World Record, and a relatively large wide screen in Asia imported from abroad. The projection system and art stage, as well as the time tunnel and Magic City, are the essence of the entire Epcot Park.
5. Zhejiang Provincial Museum
The Zhejiang Provincial Museum was founded in 1929. It is a comprehensive humanities museum integrating collection, research, protection, display and education. , is also a national first-level museum and a national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students.
The museum includes Gushan Pavilion, Wulin Pavilion, Sha Menghai’s former residence, Huang Binhong Memorial Room, Gudang Cultural Relics Protection and Research Base, etc., with a collection of more than 100,000 cultural relics and specimens, and a rich variety of cultural items. , with complete chronological sequence, they are all precious historical relics with great regional characteristics and academic value.
6. Hangzhou Xishan National Forest Park
Hangzhou Xishan Forest Park is located in the middle of Xihu District, about 10 kilometers away from the center of Hangzhou, close to Xixi Wetland National Park and Zhijiang National Tourism Resort. Across the road, it is close to the Hangzhou Ring Expressway and National Highway 320. The entire forest park covers an area of ??1,381 hectares, with a forest coverage rate of 96.7%.
There are many unique features in Hangzhou City in the Forest Park, such as Ruyijian, the highest peak in Hangzhou City. After climbing to the top, you can see the intersection of the Qiantang River, Fuchun River, and Puyang River and the new look of the ancient city of Hangzhou. Take a closer look; Lingshan Cave, the only geological cave in Hangzhou, is spacious and strangely quiet; Bailong Waterfall, the only natural waterfall in Hangzhou, looks like a white dragon cruising in the sky.
7. Hangzhou West Lake Lingshan Scenic Area
Hangzhou Lingshan Scenic Area is located in the south of West Lake District, about 12 kilometers away from the West Lake Scenic Area. Covering an area of ??12.17 square kilometers, the scenic spot combines "high, large, strange, and dangerous" in one cave, and integrates "wind, water, air, and waterfalls" into one, making it the highest open karst cave in the country. Lingshan Cave, also known as "Lingshan Fantasy", was called "Yunquan Lingdong" in ancient times.
Poets Fan Zhongyan, Su Dongpo, Zhu Xi and others of the Tang and Song Dynasties often visited this place and left behind a large number of relics. After Bai Juyi visited the cave, he wrote a poem: "Before entering Yunquan Road, I heard the guest bell first." Inside the cave is also the giant stalagmite "Tianzhu Peak", which is the second tallest in the world and the tallest in Asia, reaching a height of 24.5 meters.
8. Hangzhou Lingyin Mountain
It is located on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Also known as Wulin Mountain, Lingyuan and Xianju. It is one of the famous Buddhist mountains in my country. According to Huanyu records, Xu You, Ge Hong and other famous people once lived in seclusion in the west of this mountain. There is the North Peak, the highest point in Lingyin, which is adjacent to the South Peak. It is known as the "Twin Peaks in the Clouds" and is one of the ten scenic spots in West Lake.
9. Hangzhou Prince Bay Park
Prince Bay Park, founded in July 1988, is located on Nanshan Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It was named after the prince was buried here. On the basis of traditional Chinese landscape gardens, the park absorbs the cheerful and elegant artistic treatment techniques of Western gardening, and is full of free and natural artistic taste.
Due to the mountainous terrain, ponds and slopes were skillfully dug to make the terrain undulating and well-proportioned, pursuing the "natural simplicity" personality. Every spring, the entire park is filled with brilliant colors. Cherry blossoms, magnolias, February orchids, daffodils, and tulips are quite eye-catching.
10. Lingshun Temple, Beifeng Mountain, Hangzhou
Lingshun Temple is located on the top of Beifeng Mountain, Hangzhou. It has a long history and numerous cultural relics. It is a famous tourist attraction in Hangzhou. The temple was founded in 326 AD (the Xianhe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty) and is an earlier famous temple in Hangzhou.
It is one of the Five Spirits built by the Indian eminent monk Huili in Hangzhou. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called the "Temple of Wealth Temple" because the "Five Gods of Wealth" were enshrined in the temple in the early Northern Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the temple was nicknamed "Huaguang", so it was also called "Huaguang Temple".