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The season of blooming spring flowers is perfect for travel. We have compiled a map of 15 treasured flower viewing spots in China. 💐 We recommend saving them and checking them out. If you miss the flowers, you will have to wait until next year!
🌸Flowering period: early April to mid-April
📍 Location: Turgen Township, Xinyuan County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang
🌟Highlights: Ili, known as the "Jiangnan outside the Great Wall", is full of wild apricot blossoms. In the rolling valleys, more than 30,000 acres of wild apricot forests are sparsely and densely spread.
🌸Flowering period: late March to early April
📍 Location: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Kashgar, Xinjiang
🌟Highlights: Located on the eastern foot of the Pamir Plateau, the county borders three countries. In spring, the apricot blossoms, as bright as clouds, embellish the barren mountains behind them, and every village is an "Apricot Blossom Village"
🌸Flowering period: mid-March to early April
📍 Location: Zhonglu Tibetan Village, Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan
🌟Highlights: Danba Tibetan Village is a unique building of Danba Tibetan Village. The ancient pear trees in the village are in full bloom like snow, and under the pear trees is green barley. The scenery in March is beautiful and you can experience the Tibetan customs.
🌸Flowering period: late March to mid-April
📍 Location: Taohuagou, Bomi County, Nyingchi City, Tibet Autonomous Region
🌟Highlights: The earliest peach blossoms in Nyingchi. Among them, the Peach Blossom Valley in Bomi Bodui is known as "China's largest peach blossom valley". 200,000 wild peach trees with an average age of 360 years stretch for dozens of kilometers.
🌸Flowering period: mid-February to mid-March
📍 Location: Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province
🌟Highlights: 800,000 mu of rapeseed flowers stretch for dozens of miles. Climbing Jinji Peak in the northeast of the county seat, you can see that the rapeseed fields are relatively flat, while some isolated peaks rise in the distance, which gives you a magnificent feeling.
🌸Flowering period: late March to late April
📍 Location: Pudi Township, Bailidujuan Management District, Bijie City, Guizhou Province
🌟Highlights: It is the largest azalea scenic area in China, named after the natural azalea sea, with diverse colors and stretching for hundreds of miles. It is known as "the largest natural garden in the world"
🌸Flowering period: mid-March to early April
📍 Location: Pingba Cherry Blossom Garden, Gui'an New District, Guizhou Province
🌟Highlights: Known as one of the most beautiful cherry blossom gardens in the world, it covers an area of more than 24,000 acres and has more than 700,000 cherry trees. The cherry blossoms cover the ridges and are close to Gaofeng Mountain, like a pink ribbon surrounding Hongfeng Lake.
🌸Flowering period: late January to mid-March
📍 Location: Lizhuang Village, Houyu Village, Yongfu Town, Zhangping City, Fujian Province
🌟Highlights: There are large areas of high mountain organic tea and nearly 100,000 cherry trees. Every spring, the cherry blossoms in the tea garden bloom, forming clusters of snow-white and bright red cherry blossoms.
🌸Flowering period: late February to early March
📍 Location: Tianzhu Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
🌟Highlights: Inside the thousand-year-old Faxi Temple, there is an ancient magnolia tree that is over 500 years old. It has been growing since the Ming Dynasty. Every spring, this magnolia blooms with white petals like snow and a fragrant aroma.
🌸Flowering period: early March to mid-April
📍 Location: Jiangling and Huangling, Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province
🌟Highlights: Nearly 10,000 mu of terraced rapeseed flowers complement the white-walled and black-tiled houses. Wuyuan Huangling is known as one of the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Terraced Fields in the World"
🌸Flowering period: mid-March to the end of March
📍 Location: No. 118, Lumo Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
🌟Highlights: Covering an area of 260 mu, there are 10,000 cherry trees. The breeze blows, the branches sway, and the petals fall in a colorful manner. It is the place with the largest number and highest concentration of weeping cherry trees in China.
🌸Flowering period: early April to late April
📍 Location: Luoyang City, Henan Province
🌟Highlights: Peonies are large, beautiful, and elegant, earning them the title of "King of Flowers." Luoyang, the thousand-year-old imperial capital, is known as the "City of Peonies." Artificial cultivation began in the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and became the most beautiful in the world during the Northern Song Dynasty.
🌸Flowering period: late April to early May
📍 Location: Dalbin Lake, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia
🌟Highlights: Xing'an Rhododendron, also known as Dazixiang, Manshanhong, and Azalea, it nurtures buds in the harsh winter, blooms in early spring, and even blooms in the snow, becoming the messenger of spring in the north.
🌸Flowering period: mid-March to mid-April
📍 Location: Nanzheng District, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province
🌟Highlights: Hanzhong Basin is the hometown of rapeseed flowers and a paradise for rapeseed flowers. Every year when the flowers bloom, 1.12 million mu of rapeseed flowers bloom at the same time, turning Hanzhong into a golden ocean.
🌸Flowering period: early April to mid-April
📍 Location: Nanchangtan Village, Xiangshan Township, Shapotou District, Zhongwei City, Ningxia
🌟Highlights: Nanchangtan Village in Xiangshan Township has about 3,000 ancient pear trees, the oldest of which is 400 years old. Every April, the garden is filled with pear blossoms.
"Don't miss the spring scenery, it's the most beautiful time when flowers are in bloom." Flowers are blooming on the roadside. Take advantage of the time of poetry and wine to go on a flower viewing trip!
