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2009-04-27 16:46
'To be perfectly honest the title of the park isn't something that attracts my wishes when travelling.'
Xixi covers an area of 3.46 square kilometers and features abundant ecological resources, breathtaking natural scenes and a rich cultural heritage of many millennia.
Unknown Xixi Wetland Park now becomes famous
Maybe, when you think of traveling in Hangzhou, the first great place that comes up to your mind will be the famous West Lake. Yet, the unknown paradise-Xixi Wetland Park can also be your best choice which now attracts more and more travelers from all over the world.
Xixi National Wetland Park, the first and so far only National Wetland Park in China, is located in the western outskirts China beautiful paradise city of Hangzhou and lies at the southern tip of the longest and oldest canal in the world, the Hangzhou-Beijing Canal.
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Xixi covers an area of 3.46 square kilometers and features abundant ecological resources, breathtaking natural scenes and a rich cultural heritage of many millennia. it ranks one of the 'Three Xi' in Hangzhou along with the famous West Lake and Xiling Seal Society.
What's in the Park
It includes many thousands of ponds, networks of streams and rivers, extensive reedbeds and ecological areas and provides rich resources for the study of urban wetland. In addition, in Xixi, you can also feel many unique cultural charisteristics of SouthChina such as Persimmon and plum festivals, the dragon boats and the well-known Hangzhou Silk Industry and appreciate its prestige of being the cradle of Shaoxin Opera. When you are cruising on the river in this peaceful urban wetland, you will feel like far from the 'Madding Crowd'. This place gives you strength and inspirations as well as it did to many artists and poets during ancient times.