

The best season is the spring or in August when all the flowers offer their open petals and diffuse an intoxicating scent. To avoid crowds, think about visiting the Yu Garden early in the morning and during the week as the weekends are very busy. Otherwise, you can take the tourist bus and join directly to Yuyuan garden.Ĩ: 30 – 17:30 (there is no ticket available after 17:00) Take bus lines 11, 26, 64, 304, 736, 801, 920, 926, or 930 and get off at Xinbeimen station (Renmin Street/Lishui Street). It helps you to immerse yourself in the traditional atmosphere.įor reaching the Yu Garden by metro, take subway line 10 and get off at Yuyuan station. “Walls of the dragons” includes rippling gray curved ridges and each of them is terminated by a dragon’s head separating the spaces of the gardens.ĭo not miss the Bazaar, which is ideal to buy some souvenirs located next to the garden. It was first laid out in 1709 and more recently recreated in 1956 by merging the east and west gardens.

Inner Garden includes rockeries, pavilions, ponds, and towers.

Yuhua Hall, literally translated as the “Jade Magnificence Hall”, is furnished with rosewood pieces from the Ming Dynasty. Huijing Hall is a corridor with a zigzag bridge and a central pavilion. Dianchun HallĬonstructed in 1820 (the first year of the Daoguang Emperor), Dianchun Hall used to serve as the base of the Small Swords Society from September 1853 to February 1855 Huijing Hall Near the Wanhua Chamber, you can see two old trees and one of them is 400-year-old ginkgo. Here, you can see a great combination of flowers such as street bamboo, cloisters, etc. Wanhua Chamber is the “tower of a hundred thousand flowers”. This scenery was possibly created during the Ming Dynasty. Sansui Hall, translated literally as the Three Tassel Hall, includes the Grand Rockery, which is a 12-meter-high rockery made of Huangshi stone, featuring peaks, cliffs, winding caves, and gorges. Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres) divided into six general spaces furnished in the Suzhou style: Sansui Hall Indonesia Fashion Week 2017 opens in JakartaĬhina aircraft carrier conducts drill in S.The garden covers a large space and houses some halls, buildings, and cultural relics including old-century furniture, calligraphy, precious paintings of famous artists, clay & brick sculptures, and inscriptions. ・ People visit lantern fair in Shanghai to celebrate Lantern Festival ・ Women's singles 1st round qualifying match at Qatar Open ・ Former Dutch soccer star Keizer passes away ・ Egypt's annual inflation rises to 29.6 pct, highest since pound float ・ Pingxi sky lantern festival kicks off in Taiwan ・ Textbook instructing Indian students to kill cats sparks anger ・ Tree falls at Singapore Botanic Gardens, killing 1, injuring 4 ・ Dongfeng Yueda Kia to recall defective automobiles ・ Public security departments facilitate migrants' ID card renewal ・ Feature: An American man's life by the Great Wall Mount Sinabung volcano continues eruption in Indonesiaīrazil state seeks to indict police officers for mutiny People take part in demonstration demanding reforms in Baghdad Suicide attack kills eight, wounds 20 in southern Afghanistan In pics: Ways to celebrate Lantern Festival in ChinaĬhina's rural per capita disposable income reaches 22,866 yuan in 2016Įndangered dolphin dies in south China river 8.2 mln railway trips expected on Lantern FestivalĬhildren learn to make Yuanxiao in E China to mark Lantern Festival
