Hangzhou Parks & Gardens

If you are great lover of the outdoors and love spending your time in parks and gardens, then on your holiday in Hangzhou , you cannot but spend hours in the beautiful, designer landscaped Hangzhou parks and gardens. Hangzhou has been traditionally described as a paradise and this superlative is being used for this capital city of Zhejiang province from time immemorial. Chinese history reveals that Southern Song Dynasty had given Hangzhou an important place during its reign. In fact the natural scenic beauty of Hangzhou had made several Chinese people travel to this city to make their residence and living here. Some of the parks are relics of the pleasure gardens of the erstwhile Chinese Emperors, but now they have been enlarged and their beauty enhanced.

Amongst the Hangzhou parks and gardens, some are really wonderful with innovative poetic names like Orioles Singing in the Willows. Here you will find willow trees and get to hear the magical sweet trilling of orioles (songbird). Nearly all the parks in the city have pavilions and other structures to enable you to enjoy yourself better, this park is also no exception. Relax completely in its verdure, it was a pleasure garden of the Southern Song Dynasty Emperors. Make time to visit Fuschun Peach Garden on Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway. The garden is of fifteen square kilometers and has Xiaoyao Rock Lake, Natural Sweat Oak Woods, Sky Cloud Cave, Recreational Swan Dancing Ground and Peach Garden Sanjia Village. Try and spend some time in the picturesque villages nearby. Another place of great attraction is the Hangzhou Botanical Garden in the northwest end of West Lake. Here you will find not only great beauty but also great information. There is a research wing in the garden where studious attention is given to the cultivation of plants and protection of the environment.