If you want to venture around, there are some good places nearby and following are some recommended ones:
1. Chime-long Night Safari Zoo ( 長隆夜間野生動物園 ) – 10 minutes by car
You can have a close encounter with wild animals in the park and watching the performances in the amphitheater is another exciting moment ………..
2. Baomo Garden ( 宝墨園 ) – 20 minutes by car
An ancient garden of about 100 acres in area built in Qing Dynasty with traditional gardening arts of South China. A superb place to see Chinese arts and for relaxing…….
3. Yuyin Garden ( 豫蔭山房 ) – 15 minutes by car
This is one of the four great famous gardens in Qing Dynasty of Guangdong built in 1867 and is now a unit under the historical relics protection. The garden used to be the house of a very rich local people in Qing Dynasty where you can see the old Chinese building art, the structure and the overall layout of a grand house in the time over a century ago…...
4. Lotus Hill and Royal Orchard Golf Club (蓮花山/君蘭高爾夫球場 )–20/10 minutes
Both are standard 18-hole golf courses well designed by professional golfer. Golf lovers can enjoy the time over there……
5. Da Fu Shan Country Park ( 大夫山森林公園 ) – 5 minutes
A natural country park with very minimal artificial adornments where you can only find trees, greens, lakes and flowers and all these really can make you fell free and relaxing. This is also a good place for outing, picnic & cycling (bikes are available for rental inside the park)….
6. Shi Qiao (市橋 ) - 15 minutes
City of Panyu where is still busying with the city modernization. The underground train connecting to Guangzhou will start to operate in 2006 and the relocation of Guangzhou’s train station will be moved to Panyu in 2008…..
7. Tian He Guangzhou ( 廣州天河 ) – 15 minutes by car
The new commercial centre and symbol of Guangzhou where the highest skyscrapers of Guangzhou stands, and the Tian He Stadium which will be one of the sites to host the 2008 Asian Game in Guangzhou……
Apart from the above, there are many others worth seeing such as Floral World in
Chen Cun, Floral Bird Fish Stone market in Hua Di Wan, Jade market, Antique Market
and Sunflower Garden etc.
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