Shanghai Zoo, formerly known as Xijiao Park, was founded in 1954. As the name card of Shanghai’s century-old history, it is one of the top ten national zoos in China and one of the second largest city zoos in China. The Shanghai Zoo, located at No. 2381 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai, is adjacent to Metro Line 10 and covers an area of 743,000 square meters. It has more than 400 species of animals on display and the houses that feeds the animals to display has 47,237 square meters.
The Shanghai Zoo has world-famous giant pandas which are known as “national treasures” and “living fossils”, as well as rare wild animals such as golden monkeys, South China tigers, and Chinese alligators, as well as representative animals from around the world such as gorillas, African lions, and giraffes. Polar bears, kangaroos, South American pelicans and other animals. At the same time, there are opportunities to get in touch with rare animals such as giant pandas and golden monkeys. The lovely alpaca, zebra and ecological garden complement each other, giving people the urge to take them home, and because of the convenient transportation, coming to the Shanghai Zoo during holidays to find childhood memories is a great choice.
In recent years, Shanghai Zoo has set up a city eco-zoo as its goal, and gradually transformed and built a visually accessible ecological animal exhibition area, so that visitors can feel like that they are in nature and enjoy the beauty of wildness. Since the opening of the zoo, the Shanghai Zoo has received nearly 160 million of tourists from the initial simple visits to the comprehensive park with four functions of entertainment, animal knowledge, scientific and technological research and wildlife protection. Featuring beautiful garden landscape, wonderful wildlife world, ecological wildlife exhibition area, harmony between people and animals, Shanghai Zoo will leave visitors with beautiful memories and love for nature.
Shanghai Wild Animal Park is home to more than 200 species of rare wild animals such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, golden takins, pheasants, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, white rhinoceros and cheetahs, and there are more than 10,000 species. The park is divided into two major visiting areas: the car entry zone and the pedestrian zone.
The 88-story sightseeing hall of Jinmao Tower covers an area of 1,520 square meters and a height of 340.1 meters. The decoration of the sightseeing hall is made of imported natural marble, of which the thickness of the wall stone is only 3 mm. The glass curtain wall of the Jinmao Tower offers you a wide view so that you can overlook the urban scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River and the magnificent scenery of the Yangtze River estuary. Here, you can admire the wonderful sunrise and sunset, and shake hands with the ever-changing blue sky and white clouds.
The Jinmao Tower of Shanghai is in the prime location of Lujiazui in Pudong. It is also known as the kitchen three-piece set with the Oriental Pearl and the Shanghai Center. The Jinmao Tower has eighty-eight floors and the top is the sightseeing hall. The middle part of building is the living room. When you see the interior of the Jinmao Tower while living in the room there, it is still very characteristic. The room is outside in a circle. The interior is a deep patio, a spiral design from top to bottom, which is very tall and very stylish. And it is golden-gold color, and high-end atmosphere has a very good view here. Through the all-round transparent glass windows, the Bund, the World Architecture, the Oriental Pearl, and the adjacent World Financial Center and Shanghai Tower are all visible.
The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is a landmark in Shanghai, and almost every visitor to Shanghai will come here to have a visit. It is awesome to reach the 279-meter two-story ball and overlook the most beautiful bends that Huangpu Road has crossed. The Shanghai Exhibition Hall on the second floor tells about the changes in modern Shanghai and is very helpful in understanding Shanghai’s past.
The most worthwhile reason to visit the Shanghai World Financial Center is that it is free of charge during your birthday. You can bring your ID card on your birthday to view the scenery during the daytime in this year, then view the night scene at the next year, which will be very interesting. And when you go there, you can also walk along with Lujiazui to enjoy yourself during your trip in Shanghai. In addition, when taking the elevator of the Shanghai World Financial Center, the staff will tell you that it reaches the 94th floor in 66 seconds, but you will feel like just taking 30 second as it is really fast.
The Shanghai Gate Pavilion on the B1 floor presents Shanghai’s rapidly developing urban landscape in an advanced multimedia interactive format, with the most exquisite and realistic city model in the world.
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center covers an area of over 20,000 square meters. In the exhibition area of more than 7,000 square meters, the city’s urban planning and construction achievements of Shanghai City are fully demonstrated, and the theme of “city, people, environment and development” is fully expressed, and it is praised by the public as “the window of the city”. A large number of high-tech means are used in the Exhibition Center to fully display the blueprint for the future of Shanghai from now to the year of 2020. The entire planning Exhibition Center is highly professional, informative, interesting and artistic, and it is integrating history and the future together, to give people unlimited imagination. The majestic momentum, the large-scale exhibition style, and the modern first-class high-tech display means vividly demonstrate the vicissitudes of Shanghai, showing Shanghai’s beautiful today and a bright future.
It is said that half of Huangshan’s ticket fee belongs to that of the West Sea Grand Canyon. That is to say, if you don’t go to the West Sea Grand Canyon, you are already losing half of it. The West Sea Grand Canyon has two entrances: one is to enter from the Paiyun Pavilion, and it takes about two hours to reach the bottom of the canyon; the other is to enter from Buxian Bridge and it takes three or four hours to reach the bottom of the canyon. In addition, you can also take the subway tram up and down the canyon, one way 100 yuan. Most people will choose to enter from the Paiyun Pavilion. Those who are physically fit can walk to the bottom of the canyon and then go up by car. If you don’t want to waste money, you can return to the original position after you have finished the first ring view. There is no need to go to the bottom. Because the scenery below is almost the same, you have basically view it after finishing the first ring.
At different times, the scenery of the West Sea Grand Canyon is different. If there are few tourists, the ropeway does not need to be lined up. You can adjust the route according to your physical strength. The scenery of the West Sea Grand Canyon is superb, which is like the love song of the West Sea, and it is like a dream! It is a must-see attraction for the Yellow Mountains.
Xidi, a village in southern Anhui, is a typical Huizhou ancient village. The preservation is still very complete. There are still many people living in it now. The scenic spot is not big, there is a special tour guide at the entrance, which gives people a good feeling, and it is free of charge to listen to the instruction of the scenic spot. The cultural elements of each building are well worth listening to.
Hongcun Ancient Village is located in the village of Anhui Province and the ancient Huizhou area. Hongcun is the most famous place and a place of world cultural heritage. From the bus station next to Huangshan North Station, you can take the bus with a fare of 30 yuan and go straight to the west gate of Hongcun Ancient Village. Entering the scenic spot from the west gate, you can walk to the southeast entrance of Hongcun Scenic Area. There, there will be an interpreter who introduces Hongcun for tourists free of charge every day, and you can follow the tour guide to take a trip to the village and listen to the historical allusions and customs of Hongcun Ancient Village. Then you will have more understanding of Huizhou culture. The whole process of the introduction will be about 1 hour. After listening to it, you can walk around the village to explore the charm there. Huizhou is a village with water.
Hongcun has a strong business atmosphere, but after all, it is convenient for tourists to eat, drink and live. Hongcun Ancient Village is named after the water system, and Nanhu and Moon Marsh are the places that must be visited. If you want to discover the beauty of Hongcun, it is recommended to stay for a day or two days, use the morning and evening time to avoid the noisy crowd, then walk quietly on the stone road, you will find that time is still, as if you are crossing. And your mood will be beautiful. It is rare to find a time to forget all the secular. Hope that Hongcun people can continue to preserve the customs and simplicity of Huizhou people.
Luhuitou Park is located in Luhuitou Peninsula, southwest of Sanya. The park is surrounded by the sea on three sides and adjacent to Sanya City. It is the commanding height of the viewing the sea and watching the sunrise and sunset. It is also a good place to overlook the panoramic view of Sanya. Luhuitou Park is famous for its deer sculptures. Standing in the Luhuitou Park, you can see the East Island and West Island on the South China Sea. The location of Luhuitou is a theme park with equal love culture and ecological display. The main attractions include Shunfengtai, Luyuan, slide, Ziqidonglai, Love Culture Park, Lizu song and dance performance, Luhuitou sculpture, Peak Garden, Beiting viewing platform etc., is also the core area of the Sanya urban forest vegetation nature reserve. It is an evergreen tropical rainforest ecological type with abundant plant species and many endemic species of national and Hainan provinces.