Liuhua Lake Park
No. 100 Liuhua Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, China
Description:
Liuhua Lake Park is one of the favorite vacation spots of locals and a former imperial park, whose name has a beautiful history and translates as “floating flowers”. It is located near Yuexiu Park.
The name of the park is associated with an ancient tradition, according to which the court ladies, dressed in special clothes, in the morning threw flowers into the lake, which soon carried away the current.
The park is divided into 4 parts and consists of 3 large lakes and 4 small, covering an area of 330,000 square meters of 540,000 square meters of total area.
In the northern and eastern parts of the park there is a children's entertainment area, a badminton field, a tropical garden, a health club and a bird island, where you can watch the life of several hundred herons from the observation deck. In the southern and western parts, you can visit a tea house, a Chinese restaurant and the famous bird garden.