Xishuangbanna, located in the southernmost Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, is a hot land without winter. It is the most intact and largest tropical rain forest near the Tropic of cancer in the world, known as animal kingdom, plant kingdom, green kingdom, south medicine Kingdom, etc.
What are the interesting spots in Xishuangbanna
1. Tropical Botanical Garden
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden was founded in 1959 under the leadership of Professor Cai Xitao, a famous botanist. It is the largest botanical garden with the most preserved species in China. Banna botanical garden is a comprehensive botanical garden integrating tropical scientific research, species conservation and popular science education. It has a large area of tropical rainforest, nearly 10000 tropical plants from home and abroad, distributed in 35 special parks, such as palm garden, banyan garden, dragon blood tree garden, Cycas garden, national culture plant area, rare and endangered plant ex situ protection area, etc Before that, digital botanical garden was in the leading position in China Botanical Garden.
2. Wangtianshu
Wangtianshu, also known as qingtianshu, is a large tree with a height of 40-60m and a DBH of 60-150cm. Its bark is gray or tan, the upper part of the trunk is light longitudinal crack, and the lower part of the bale is massive peeling. Young branches covered with scaly hairs, with rounded lenticels. Leaves leathery, elliptic or elliptic lanceolate.
Wangtianshu wood is hard, durable, corrosion-resistant and not easy to be eaten by insects; the wood is brown yellow, no special smell, straight texture, even structure, easy processing, slicing surface is smooth, and the pattern is beautiful. It is a high-grade material for making all kinds of furniture.
3. Dai Park
The Dai garden is a thousand year old village, known as the "Dai Folk Museum", which is a well-known scenic spot to fully display the Dai folk houses, Dai customs and Dai Folk Customs. The scene of hundreds of people splashing water at the same time in Dai garden is very spectacular.
4. Wild Elephant Valley
Most people can't see wild elephants, but there is a daily training show.
5. Mengyuan Wonderland
Mengyuan fairyland is a typical tropical rain forest cave, the crown corridor of wangtianshu is to climb up to the sky, Mengyuan fairyland is to seek happiness in the ground, with its own characteristics.