Yangzhou: Main Scenic Spots

....................................................................................................................................................................................... Slender West Lake (Shouxi Hu) .......................................................................................................................................................................................

The vally is 47 km north of Jinghong city by the highway linking Jinghong and Simao. Wild Elephant Valley is the place in Xishuangbanna where wild elephants move about most often and frequently. Convenient in traffic, distinctive in equatorial forest landscape and easy to see wild elephants, it has become the popular tourist site.

....................................................................................................................................................................................... Menglun Tropical Botanical Garden .......................................................................................................................................................................................

It is also called Tropical Plant Research Institute. Situated on Hulu Island, Menglun county, 96 km from Jinghong City. The garden contains 3,000 different types of plant. The environment here is spectacular, surrounded by rivers and mountains and containing a welath of rare and unusual plants, trees and flowers. Dragon Blood Tree is one of the most interesting and valuable species in the garden. Its sap is used as a remedy to stop bleeding and promote blood circulation.

....................................................................................................................................................................................... White Feilong Pagodas .......................................................................................................................................................................................

	Slender West Lake (Shouxi Hu) Named after Hangzhou's famous West Lake, this long, narrow stretch of water which meanders through Yangzhou's western limits is a well-known scenic spot. A long dyke planted with weeping willows spans the lake; at its midpoint stands a square terrace with pavilions at each of the corners and one in the center. The Fiver-Pavilion Bridge, built over the center of the Slender West Lake, has five pavilions on it , hence its name. On account of it's building on the stem of lotus flower, it was also named the Bridge of the Lotus Flower. This combination of bridge with pavilions is said to be one of the historical legacies of China's ancient bridge buildings, also a typical architecture with a nice integration of the southern style in this field with the northern one. Then walk onto the Twenty-four Bridge, across Slender West Lake. The bridge is 24 meters in length, two and forth meter in wildth and with 24 bars and 24 stairs. It seems everything of the bridge coincides with the number 24. Imagine in a moonlit night in ancient Chinese, a group of fairy beauties blowing Xiao on the bridge.

..................................................................................................................................................................................... Daming Temple .....................................................................................................................................................................................

The name means: Great Brightness Temple, although Emperor Qianlong renamed it Fajing Temple in 1765 when he dropped in for a visit. The monastery was founded more than 1000 years ago and was subsequently destroyed and rebuilt. Then it was destroyed right down to its foundations during the Taiping Rebellion; What you see today is a 1934 reconstruction. The Chinese have a wooden copy of this statue on display at the Jianzhen Memorial Hall. Modelled after the chief hall of the Toshodai Temple in Nara(Japan), the Jianzhen Memorial Hall was built in 1974 at Daming Monastery and was financed by Japanese contributions. Special exchanges are made between Nara and Yangzhou; even Deng Xiaoping, returning from a trip to Japan, came to the Yangzhou Monastery to strengthen renewed links between the two countries. Near the monastery is Pingshan Hall, the former residence of the Song Dynasty writer Ouyang Xiu, who served in Yangzhou.

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