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Family Outdoor Activities | Half-Day Plum Blossom Exploration at Lingfeng

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Day 1 Laohe Yunqi → Hangzhou Botanical Garden

All day

Gather and depart

Please arrive at Laohe Yunqi before 13:30. The activity will start on time. Please do not be late. No make-up will be given if you miss it.

Green and environmentally friendly, public transportation is recommended, and it is close to Exit B of Gudang Metro Station.

Little team leader

Each child must give himself a nickname, follow the leader teacher, learn how to use the walkie-talkie, complete tasks such as exploring the route and marking road signs.

Lingfeng Plum Blossom Viewing

Starting from Laoheyunqi, we walked along the Xishan hiking trail all the way to the sea of ​​plum blossoms. Surrounded by green hills and lush trees, the Lingfeng Mountains are covered with green grass and the plum blossom forest looks like a sea.

Halfway up the mountain in Lingfeng Scenic Area, there is an open platform and pavilion called Xibochi, which is one of the viewing spots for plum blossoms in Lingfeng. The Seven-Star Ancient Plum Tree next to it is composed of seven hundred-year-old wintersweets.

Ancient Poems about Plum Blossoms

Throughout history, plum blossoms have been admired and cherished by scholars and poets. "The first blossom of the east wind, the plum blossom reigns supreme among all flowers." Records of plum blossoms date back over two thousand years. Let's learn from the poets' descriptions of the plum blossom, its fearless spirit, defying frost and snow, and its modest and upright demeanor.

Plant rubbings (one copy per child)

Every blade of grass and every tree on the mountain is a gift from nature to us. Pick up a handful of flowers and plants, pick up a few plum blossoms, knock them, let the juice of the plants soak into the cotton cloth, leaving behind the meridians of the plants and the mark of spring.

The group ends

Around 16:30, we arrived at the Qingzhiwu Gate of the Botanical Garden and the event ended. Everyone said goodbye reluctantly!

Warm reminder: You need to pay for your own entrance fee to Hangzhou Botanical Garden (10 yuan for adults, 5 yuan for children, free for children under 6 years old, free for those with park cards)

Hiking: The starting point of the hike is Laohe Yunqi and the end point is Qingzhiwu Gate of the Botanical Garden. The whole hike is about 4 kilometers.

Lingfeng Plum Blossom Garden is located in a valley. The plum blossoms bloom earlier and fade later than in other places. It is one of the three major plum blossom viewing spots in Hangzhou, along with Gushan in West Lake and Xixi. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Lingfeng Zen Temple was built here. After the temple was destroyed, plum blossoms were planted one after another in the following years, and the sea of ​​plum blossoms became a great place for plum blossom viewing. The plum garden covers an area of ​​more than 200 mu, with more than 5,000 plum trees of various varieties. The best place to enjoy plum blossoms is Yaotai on the hillside. If you stand on the terrace of one or two hundred square meters and look out, you can see thousands of plum blossoms in the garden at the same time.

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