The Scenic Spot of Dragon Pond
The Scenic Spot of Dragon Pond (龍池風景區) is located at the west Suzhou city. The area is about 1.5 kilometer squared with green mountain and water superb view. It is the most attractive and best scenic spot of the White Horse Brook Ecological Park in Suzhou (蘇州白馬澗生態園).
With a geographical history of 100 million years, the ancient Dragon pond features the water influxing into the hills all year long, maintaining its image of brightness and beauty. Dragon pond lies down in the green hills and looks like a pool on the heaven, as if the green water is connected with the sky and of the same hue. Qianlong, the emperor of Qing dynasty was drunk with the beautiful water and wrote the following words with his soft and sincere cursive handwriting: “the bight mirror reflecting the cloud”.
Dragon Pond was named after the its shape just looks like the head of a dragon (see here). Yeah.. it is very beautiful scene, a sheet of green skyey water, clear and flowing smoothly along the hills. We may also enjoy rafting here (cost: 50 rmb/person for half an hour).
Besides of Dragon Pond, there are also some recreational spot such as: Horse Pond, Cloud Valley Waterfall, Tower of Ambition, Longetivity God Stone, Children Playground and more. There are cherry blossoms tree around the Horse Pond. But the blossoms are almost fall all over at this month. Also try playing the Walk-On-Water Ball (cost: 20 rmb/ball for 10 minutes) at Horse Pond, it's fun!
The scenic area is holding the exhibition of gigantic kites. There are dragons, birds, butterflies, insects, fairies and more kind of large and small kites hanging all over the park. The exhibition holds from April 15, 2007 until May 8, 2007.
Related information:
- Transportation (How to get there):
- Bus 333 straight to The Scenic Spot of Dragon Pond
- Bus 44 or 302 to Huashan Road and change bus 333
- Bus 308 or 301 to B-Market besides Heshan Bridge and change bus 333 - Ticket price: 50 rmb/person (group: 31 rmb/person)
- Open hours: 08:15 ~ 17:00
- Website: http://www.szlongchi.com/english.php
