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Chase flowers

(lifestyle.com)
Updated: 2007-03-21 09:40



Spring is time of flowers. Last year's warm winter leads to the early
blossom of flowers. Blooming flowers never wait, they blossom and then
wither. To catch the transient beauty, you need a timetable. The
following is a list of nice places appreciating blooming flowers. Let's
enjoy spring.

Wuyuan

Located in Jiangxi Province, Wuyuan is a typical town in China's
southeast area, with trees and water around. Decorated by kinds of
flowers, Wuyuan's spring is as beautiful as a picture.

Mid-March is the best time to appreciate flowers in Wuyuan. The
best-known flowers in Wuyuan are rape plant flowers. They are so common
that you may not notice them when you pass by. But in Wuyuan, you'll see
acres of them, the yellow wave will refresh you. Besides, there are there
are pear flowers, peach flowers, Michelia floribunda (Shilixiang) and
azaleas.

Three Gorges

Tourists are welcome by seas of flowers if they visit Three Gorges in
March and April. The whole area is awakened by dazzling rape plant
flowers and peach flowers. Rape plant flowers blossom in mid-March, then
azaleas blossom in late March, and it's the orange blossoms in Yichang at
the beginning of April.

Taohuacun (peach flowers village), as the name shows, is a good place to
appreciate peach flowers. It is located near Yichang city, at the
entrance of Xiling Gorge, the most east part of Three Gorges.

Bailizhou, an island located at the heart of Yangtze River, boasts five
million pear trees.

Nyingchi

Nvingchi, a small county located in southeast Tibet, is always crowned
for its delicate scenery. It's filled with peach blossoms, forest farms
and snow mountains.

In Nyingchi, peach flowers bloom at the late March or early April.
Different from the delicate peach flowers in east China, Nyingchi's wild
peach flowers have more vivid color at the base of distant snow mountains.

There is another place to enjoy peach flowers five kilometres away
Nyingchi county, Ga La Peach Flowers Village. Visitors to Nyingchi may
see blooming azaleas in June.

Lijiang

Located in Yunnan Province, Southwest China, Lijiang offers blooming
azaleas every spring. From early May, azaleas bloom gradually on
mountains. Azales at lower part of mountains bloom early while those at
higher part later. In June, the flowery mountains turn up.

Laojunshan Mountain is a good place in Lijiang to enjoy blooming azaleas.










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