Great place to visit. Ticket is a bit expensive tho. 80 kuai per person.
Nice and quiet place outside of Hangzhou city. The Wetlands area is great for morning runs, and you'll find company as early as 6am on good days - elderly folks doing taichi, young people running, dog-walking etc. Amongs the wetlands are various "folies" or art sculptures that accent the landscape, lending a very nice touch of colour and surprise sometimes, as u explore.
Such a huge place to roam around. Looks beautiful in the rains. Lots of shops to buy souvenirs.
Pretty cool wetland to visit, however, seems a bit over-priced.
Even though they say it's a natural wetland, I will feel like it's geared towards tourists too much, so the convenience of boat rides, shops, and little restaurants among the wetland area gave me a feeling that it ISN'T so natural. The roads have been paved over the land to make easy access for tourists, and that contradicts the concept of wetland to me. Also, the explanations done by the tour guide on the boat was only available in Chinese, so I assume I missed a lot of important information to get to know this wetland area better. I still like the fact that China is putting consideration in creating wetlands, which are good for species habitat and water.
I wish the tour would involve less civilization and give a chance for more engaging experience of the nature itself.
Beautiful wetlands, calm oasis if you can avoid the crowds. There are interesting shops in here, e.g. homemade rice wine etc. boat tours are worth it, and you can see much of the park this way. get off and walk wherever you can.
Serene and Beautiful,
would love 2 visit it again
30 minutes drive from west lake.A bit crowded wet land park. There is a shop where they sell farmed pearls. You even have an option to choose the oyster and they open and take out pearls.
beautiful park
Loved biking through the path in the free section of this park. There is plenty to see and enjoy even if you don't enter the paid areas: ponds, gardens, pagodas, special shops The wetlands museum in the south west corner is also free, just not the observation tower beside it.