Friday September 25, 2009

Friday September 25, 2009

Me and Wijb decided to hop to Tang Paradise Theme Park. These days the weather is just fine not anymore stifling and not too cool either to stop you enjoy the beauty of nature and we both have a chance to have an extra holiday and off from work.

Tang Paradise park, is a man-made, ecological park with a great ambience with pleasant nice environment in fact. I t is located in South east of Xian city in vast greenish urban area a bit far from pollution and less traffic around.

This Royal park is located in the center of urban ,resort district which is surrounded by couple of parks around ,luxury, exclusive under construction building and villas and on the other site Big Goose Pagoda which is very symbolic and respective in Chinese religious and even though I can say more historical and cultural nowadays.

This tourist attraction not only claims to be the biggest cultural theme park in the northwest region of China but also the first royal-garden-like park to give a full display of the Tang Dynasty's (618-907) culture.

We sat on scooter and got there in less than 15 minutes. Altogether there are 12 scenic spots are distributed to the tourists. The opening hours are from 9 AM to 7 P.M.

There are large number of buildings which are representing the Tang Dynasty structure and architecture. when you get in you can take an English map and it give you not too vague guidance of the area. As far as we heard , there was a large park area on the north site which we passed by and apparently it is represented to the public in 2008.

After crossing the over pass foot bridge you could get to the other site of Paradise park and enjoy the park with a huge man-made lake in front and some paddle boats as well which are part of adventures there.

While we were strolling and staggering around we bumped into a photography exhibition, or open gallery there. There were so many professional photographers and artists there to take photos and interview the artists and a small speech around there and we had a good chance to walk around the exhibition and enjoy of watching remarkable pictures from unknown places in China. Some were totally from outskirt of cities and some were from nature and sands and desserts and grassland from autonomous areas in China which means Mongolia and Xing zing place/

There was a hotel inside and some snack shops, handy crafts market , Chinese paper making ,a tea house and some sculptures which all represent the Tang period atmosphere.

IT IS NICE TO STROLL AND WANDER AROUND A COUPLE OF HOURS AND ENJOY THE NATURE THERE.