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Shanghai Wild Animal Park

You can obviously feel that the park is working hard to build a brand: all the park staff are courteous; and all free performances are also carefully arranged, and they design different humorous topics, the whole performance are filled with ease and happiness, and there is no cruelty or discomfort to force animals to make the performances; public toilets, rest spots, small shops, shuttle buses and other supporting facilities are also reasonable and sufficient.

There are also some warm tips for you to play in the Shanghai Wild Animal Park:

Shanghai Wild Animal Park has four oversized parking lots from No.1 to No.4, with a total of more than 6,000 parking spaces, making it easier for you to travel by car. The parking lot is charged at a rate of 20 yuan per vehicle!

In the pedestrian zone, in addition to walking tours, there are other means of transportation to make it easy for you to visit the park, such as the battery car and leisure bicycle; battery car has set up multiple sites, the park’s elite exhibition area has been connected to make it convenient for you; leisure bicycle can be divided into bicycles of single row and double row. Visitors can enjoy the tour while riding and free to arrange the tour area to enjoy the entire pedestrian zone.

The park also provides convenience services such as luggage storage, wheelchairs, and baby carriage rental.

If you come to the park late, just don’t worry about it. The park provides the quick service for tourists who enter the park late! There are several CMB buses and excellent tour guides waiting at the door every day, and you can directly enter the area by car so that you can quickly experience the zero distance with the nature!

The biggest trick to play in Shanghai Wild Animal Park is to go into the park early. At 8:00 in the morning, you can enter the park and then quickly go to take the tour bus to start your play.

Jinmao Tower

Shanghai Jinmao Tower is located at No. 88, Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai. It is located in the center of Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, east to Pudong New Area, west to Shanghai and Huangpu River, south to Pudong Zhangyang Road Commercial and Trade Zone, and north to the Central green space which covers an area of 100,000 square meters.

88-story sightseeing hall: The glass curtain wall in the sightseeing hall has an open view, and the urban scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River and the magnificent scenery of the Yangtze River estuary are in full view. You can also overlook the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Jin Mao Hotel in the sightseeing hall, which is 27 meters in diameter and the handrails of the 28 ring corridors are illuminated by neon lights and has been called by the architects as a “time and space tunnel.”

Time Shuttle: Two ultra-high-speed vertical elevators running 9.1 meters per second can transport visitors directly from the basement floor to the 88th floor in just 45 seconds, giving you an unprecedented speed experience.

Jinmao Tower is worth seeing. The scenery is good. You can see the Pearl Tower and Shanghai Night View. If you have time, try the outside walk on the transparent glass! The scenery of the sightseeing hall is awesome and the whole Shanghai scenery is in your eye, but it is recommended to stay there longer, from the nightfall to the evening, to enjoy the different panoramic views of Shanghai.

Jinmao Tower was once the tallest building in Shanghai, and the buffet above it is Shanghai’s high-end cuisine. Compared with other buffets, Jinmao buffet food is better, which is very authentic, and it has two characteristics: its seafood ingredients are very delicious, authentic, salmon meat is fat and delicious, sweet shrimp is tasty, and the taste and quality of its dessert are super good, with fantastic appearance and excellent ingredients.

Oriental Pearl TV Tower

Oriental Pearl TV Tower, as an iconic building in Shanghai, is a best place to look up and down the high-rise buildings on both sides of the Huangpu River and feel the rhythm of the metropolis.

Introductions of the sightseeing products in Oriental Pearl TV Tower:

1. The 351m Space Capsule allows you to take a bird’s eye view of the city from the highest point of the tower.

Through the mysterious space-time telescope of the universe, you can look for the star space capsule sightseeing layer in the universe. You can also walk with the spaceman to explore all the mysterious planets. Don’t doubt that you are in the magical 351m Space Capsule! You seem to be an extraterrestrial visitor, who can experience the shuttle and adventure in the world and have the opportunity to experience the interaction with the extraterrestrial visitors.

2. The 263m Sightseeing Galleria allows you to look up the banks of the Pujiang River and gain a deep understanding of the vicissitudes of Shanghai and the rich cultural heritage.

In Shanghai, it is difficult to understand the whole picture of Shanghai today! Only on the 263m Sightseeing Galleria of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower can you have better view of both sides of the Pujiang River, and the modern urban style of the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone and the World-class architecture of the Bund are instantly reflected in your eyes. In the heights of this bustling metropolis in Shanghai, while enjoying the magnificent scenery in front of you, you can also gain a deeper understanding of the vicissitudes of Shanghai and the rich cultural heritage. At this moment, standing on such a height to overlook Shanghai will be the pride of your life!

3. Shanghai Urban History and Development Museum shows the changes in Shanghai’s urban history from 700 years ago till now.

Oriental Pearl walks together with Coca-Cola to create a Coca-Cola theme restaurant, which is closely linked to the fashion pulse. In the prosperous Lujiazui financial circle, it creates a place for family and business workers to enjoy leisure and entertainment. Every day, you can find endless surprises here!

Shanghai World Financial Center

The 101-story, 492-meter-high super high-rise integrated development project is located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, and the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Center is regarded as Asia’s international financial and trade center. The Shanghai World Financial Center is located in the center of the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Center. It is built on a 100-meter-wide Century Avenue that runs through the center of the area, along with a 100,000-square-meter Central Green Park. The area’s super high-rise buildings can be seen here and there, and many are still under construction, which are gathering government-related institutions and stock exchanges, various commodity exchanges, major banks, trading companies and so on. Moreover, the urban transportation infrastructure from here to the international hub airport Pudong International Airport is also well established.

Tour Guide of the Shanghai World Financial Center Sightseeing Hall—“Shanghai’s Eye”

Located on the 94th to 100th floors of the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Sightseeing Hall is known as the “Eye of Shanghai” due to the wind tunnel opening design at the top.

The 100th floor of the Eye of Shanghai is a suspended sightseeing corridor with a length of about 55 meters. The transparent glass floor and unique mirror reflections make the city’s heartbeat to a high point.

When you are standing in the eye of Shanghai, the whole city seems to be at your feet. Overlooking the scenery on both sides of the Pujiang River during the day, you will feel the history and changes of Shanghai are clear at a glance. At night, you can look at the large and small wheels on the Huangpu River, which are dotted with the river surface like a spark, and the bustling and hustle of Shanghai at night are in front of you. It is a great place to overlook Shanghai landmarks such as the Oriental Pearl and the Bund on the top.

If you are lucky, you can enjoy the most amazing clouds in the eye of Shanghai in the cloudy and rainy weather.

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center

The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center is located at No. 100, Renmin Avenue, Shanghai. It takes 5 minutes to walk to there after you arrive at the People’s Square Station by subway. Visiting time for the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center: it will be closed on Monday, usually opens from 9:00 to 17:00, but it will stop checking ticket at 16 o’clock. Tickets for the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center are 30 yuan/person.

1F is mainly the entrance and display some colorful paintings; MF historical and cultural city hall is more characteristic as the exhibition hall here has a similar way of showing books, you can pull out the pictures one by one; 2F is the symbol Shanghai – Street – Memory, there are two ways including micro-movie and photo to show off, and you can see the contrast between a street and after a street, but also silently understand the meaning of many new words; 3F is the overall planning hall, the most eye-catching item in this hall is the miniature building. You can find various landmarks in Shanghai. It is very interesting to view here; 4F is a professional and key construction planning hall, and there are mainly interactive, video, question and answer methods to let visitors know about Shanghai’s public transportation, urban planning, etc. in various aspects, for example, there will be data boards showing the development of rail transit in the past few decades; 5F is the symbol Shanghai-Street-Color Rhyme, which mainly displays some paintings, in which the memories of Shanghai cities can be found.

In general, it will take about 2-3 hours to finish your visiting there, and it is suitable for the old Shanghai residents to review the previous memories, but also suitable for foreign travelers to see the changes in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center is opposite the museum. The exhibition center shows Shanghai’s development history, urban architecture and urban planning, which are worth visiting. The architecture of Shanghai is very characteristic and the western flavor is very strong.

West Sea Grand Canyon

The West Sea Grand Canyon has thousands of walls which feature the majestic momentum, and the poetry of the peaks and the beautiful stone. It can be said that there is scenery everywhere, and you will feel it a great place to explore the charm of the nature. It’s the most representative and stimulating, most attractive and shocking in the Yellow Mountains scenic spot. It is also the most beautiful place to showcase the wonders of nature and the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. No other mountain scenic spot in the country can be compared with the West Sea Grand Canyon.

Visiting the West Sea Grand Canyon, you can take the ropeway, whose station to get off is set at the bottom of the canyon at an altitude of 1,209 meters and the station to get on is located at the stone bed peak in the Tianhai scenic area. The cable car is 892 meters long and the height difference is 497 meters. The maximum running speed is 8 meters/second and the cable car capacity are 60+1 person, and the designed capacity is of 800 people per hour. The cable car was opened on July 9, 2013 and put into operation.

The West Sea Grand Canyon can be a dreamy scenic spot which is worthy of a visit, and it is featuring with strange rocks and steep peaks, and it is surrounded by clouds. The curved trails can bring you visual vibrancy. Although more than three hours of walking will make you feel tired, it is extremely satisfying. If you have the opportunity, you must visit the West Sea Grand Canyon in winter.

The West Sea Grand Canyon is a very nice place. The scenery is really beautiful. All the features on the top of the Yellow Mountains are here: Strange pine, fantastic rock peaks, sea of clouds, hot springs, especially the sea of clouds, which is very amazing. When you go down the mountain, you can choose to hike. When you go up the mountain, you can choose to take a small train.

Xidi Ancient Village

Xidi Ancient Village is located in the south of Huangshan Mountain, which is only 40 kilometers away from Huangshan Scenic Area. It was built in the Northern Song Dynasty Huangyou Period and developed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It flourished in the early Qing Dynasty and has nearly 960 years of history. After hundreds of years of social unrest, the invasion of wind and rain, although more than half of the ancient dwellings, ancestral halls, academies and arches have been destroyed, hundreds of ancient dwellings have been preserved, and the basic features and characteristics of the villages under the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been preserved as a whole. It is China’s first batch of five A-level tourist attractions, along with the Hongcun Ancient Village.

Xidi Ancient Village is surrounded by a large number of artistic works such as bricks, wood and stone carvings. It is a simple and elegant ancient village with profound contents. It has both the exquisite “three-carving” architectural art of ancient Huizhou and the rich cultural connotation of the cultural landscape, thus forming a significant cultural heritage of Huizhou. In front of the village, there is a tall archway building, which is exquisitely carved and towering, and is a treasure in the construction of stone memorial archway architecture in China.

Walking through the Xidi Ancient Village, you can see the pink walls and green tiles, the bluestone paving, the lanes across the street, the inlaid leaking windows, the hollow door cover and the layered stack of cornices, and white walls everywhere. The halls of the residence are carved and painted, which are all beautifully carved with delicate wood carvings. The ceiling is decorated with dazzling paintings, and the walls of the rooms are decorated with elegant paintings. The hall is full of ancient couplets, which has rich connotations and profound meanings. It not only gives people the enjoyment of aesthetics, but also makes people philosophical. The development traces of Xidi Ancient Village are not so strong. People who like ancient architecture and Huizhou culture can come here slowly to enjoy it.

Hongcun Ancient Village

The site selection and layout of Hongcun Ancient Village, as well as the beautiful scenery of the village, are all directly related to water. It is an ancient village that has been carefully planned. The planning and design of the artificial water system inside and outside the village is quite delicate and ingenious. The cultural landscape and natural landscape complement each other, and it is a rare village with detailed planning in ancient times in the world. Hongcun ancient dwellings are the typical representative of Huizhou style architecture. Hui-style architecture is really beautiful. The white walls and gray tiles set off the blue sky and white clouds, and the curling eaves look imposing and unique.

The most beautiful scenery in the whole Hongcun Ancient Village is in the bridge. The white bridge looks like floating in the lake, and connects the different sceneries on both sides. No matter how you take a picture, it is very beautiful. It takes about an hour to walk around the whole village. Besides climbing Huangshan, don’t forget to explore the Huizhou culture, visit the birthplace of Huizhou merchants in Tunxi old street, and see the ancient villages in the paintings in Xidi Hongcun village. The south lake in Hongcun Ancient Village is especially beautiful. If you come to Hongcun Ancient Village on rainy days, you can really feel the different flavor of the village in the painting.

Anhui Hongcun Ancient Village is really worth a visit. Its local characteristics are rich, from the architectural style of Huizhou to the simple customs, as well as the unique flavor of Huizhou cuisine, all of which will make you feel enjoyable when you are visiting the Hongcun Ancient Village.

In general, the preservation of Hongcun Ancient Village is relatively complete, and if visitors are interested in the Hui culture, you can stay in the village for a few days, to taste the ‘Chinese village in the painting’.

Luhuitou Park

The Luhuitou Park is not big, and it won’t take long to climb the mountain. You can go up the mountain easily. The scenery on the road is still good, the trees are shaded, the vegetation is flourishing, the air is very good, in fact, it is quite suitable for hiking.

During your halfway up the mountain, you can see the urban areas of Sanya, Dadonghai, Sanya Bay and Phoenix Island. Walking on foot, it takes about half an hour to walk slowly. If you take a battery car, the end point will stop at the half-mountain viewing platform. However, the position of the observation platform is not ideal, and the plants are too lush. A lot of branches will block the line of sight and you need to continue going up. The angles of many positions above are quite good. The road up the mountain is a circular winding road. You can see the panoramic view of downtown Sanya. There are also some shops and bars along the road. There are durian betel nuts growing on both sides of the road. Of course, there are wild monkeys in the trees. When you go up the mountain, remember to be safe, don’t go and provoke them.

For the Luhuitou, you may have thought it was just a pure place name. After seeing Sanya’s ancient love, you will understand that this is a love story. On the top of the mountain it is a statue of a deer returning back, a sika deer looking back, and the image of a man and a woman on both sides.

Luhuitou is actually the equivalent of a peninsula, which is extending towards the sea. The scenic spot is located on the land side. In the front you can see the bay and the peninsula. To the top of the mountain, it is the best place to view the scenery.

The sunset in Luhuitou Park is also so beautiful. Standing on the high point of the Luhuitou status in Sanya, in front of you is a broad view, endless ocean, and you can just relax mood, enjoy the beautiful scenery, the atmospheric landscape, and the atmospheric state of mind.

Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone in Sanya

The ticket of the Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone in Sanya takes 150 yuan/person. There are battery cars inside, and the battery car tickets are 40 yuan for one person. Nanshan’s core attractions are three South China Sea Guanyin. There are incense in the scenic area for you to pray for free, but if you want better incense, you need to buy it yourself, and the price is calculated according to the size of the incense. After entering the door, after passing through a Buer Gate, you can see the statue of a Guanyin hand pointed by an orchid, and there are prayer wheels on both sides. This is a bit like Tibetan Buddhism.

The attractions that come all the way include Luohan Temple, Bodhi Woods and other scenic spots. There are stone statues of 18 Arhats at the entrance of Luohan Temple. There are pieces of Bodhi trees in the Bodhi Woods. It is said that Buddha Sakyamuni is enlightened as a Buddha under the Bodhi Tree. The Bodhi Tree is also called the Tree of Wisdom, but there are more than 180 kinds of Bodhi trees in the Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone in Sanya. Arriving at the innermost is the core attraction: Nanhai Guanyin statue. If you want to go up to the statue, you need to buy another ticket. The Nanhai Guanyin statue is still very shocking. In the center of the South China Sea, after passing a bridge of nearly 200 meters, the statue of Nanhai Guanyin of three sides is in front of you.

It is very worthwhile to go to the Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, as the price-performance is super high, and you can go up and down the battery car in the scenic spot for many times. The 108-meter sea goddess of mercy is a must-see attraction. There is also a Nanshan Temple worth visiting. There is a vegetarian meal in the scenic spot. It is 38 yuan/person for the lunch at noon. You can have a taste.