Hangzhou Zoo

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Lying just south of the lake, Hangzhou Zoo is a worthy place to visit, with its goldfish aquarium being its claim to fame and an enormously popular attraction. The aquarium displays some of the most unusual and rare goldfish that can be seen in China—Red Bubble, Purple Crown, Silver Lion Head, Black Dragon Eyes. It is recorded that Hangzhou is one of the places where the art of raising goldfish originated.

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Hangzhou Botanical Garden

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As one of the best Botanical Gardens in China, the Hangzhou Botanical Garden covers an area of 230 hectare with 120 kinds of bamboo growing in its bamboo section and some 1,200 medicinal herbs in its Garden of A Hundred Herbs (Baicao Yuan). It famed West Lake Scenic Resort. With a total of 3,400 plants, the garden is built on a stretch of hillside, where the weather it mild. The trees here include the feather maple, the Japanese cherry and pine, the magnolia, the camphor, the pointy cypress, the dragon cypress etc. And the vegetation is lush and verdant Horticulture Research and education is closely integrated in this garden, which is also a popular tourist resort.

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Feilai Peak

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Feilai Peak, also named Lingjiu Peak, stands in front of Lingyin Temple. It was said that an Indian monk by the name of Huili, upon his arrival in the valley, was surprised to see a mountain towering in the valley. He wondered aloud “when did a mountain fly all the way from India to this place?” – Hence the name. With a height of 209m, Feilai Peak differs dramatically from the surrounding mountains in its composition of pure limestone while the surrounding mountains are of sandstone. Many grotesque stones in the shapes of a charming dragon, a prostrate tiger, a walking elephant, and a scared ape are scattered about the mountainside. Their unusual colors make this mountain distinctive among the nearby hills and mountains. Yuandao, a celebrity of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), praised the Feilai Peak as number one in comparison with all other hills and mountains around the West Lake.
According to legend, the mountain had flown all round and destroyed many villages before it settled down in Hangzhou. In order to prevent it from further flying and causing more damage, over 500 Buddha statues which date from the 10th to 14th centuries were carved out of the stone to suppress the mountain. The biggest Buddha image is the Maitreya with cloth bag on shoulder, otherwise known as the Buddha of Joy. With exposed breast and belly, it has occupied a cliff along the brook, laughing since the Northern Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD) up to now.
Feilai Peak is so dissimilar from other hills near West Lake that there is no doubt that it truly is a foreign guest to the landscape. Many of these stone statues are quite unique and have unparalleled values in the art history, so they represent the highest level of stone carving grottoes in South of China.

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China Silk Museum

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The China Silk Museum, opened in Feburary 1992 with a total area of 10,000 square meters, is located at the foot of Yuhuang Hill, by the beautiful side of the West Lake. As the first nationwide silk specialized museum, this museum, dedicated to reflect over 5,000 years of silk development history of China, consists of eight exhibition halls, namely, Prelude Hall, Relics Hall, Folk Custom Hall, Silkworm Hall, Silk Manufacturing Hall, Weaving Hall, Dying Hall and Achievements Hall. The exhibits in this museum include silk products from the Neolithic Age to Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties as well as some in present day, showing the long development history of the silk. Besides, three Silk Roads, through desert, sea and land, are all displayed in the museum. At the same time, vivid demonstrations are given in some halls, demonstrating all the processes involved in silk production from silkworms to weaving, printing and dyeing. The museum itself is a good combination of culture, tourism and trade. It is also an educational base for both adults and children.

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