Butterfly Spring Park

Located in the Moon Hill Scenic Area in Yangshuo, Butterfly Spring Park covers an area of 36,000 square meters and gets its name for there are thousands of butterflies living in the park, where has a butterfly-like stalactite in the grotto of the park and a spring of clear water streaming out from the grotto. With its unique landscape and a rural setting, Butterfly Spring Park becomes a hot and typical scenic spot in Yangshuo.

The most attractive part in this park must be the millions of living butterflies from home and abroad. In the park, visitors can see the colorful butterflies flying leisurely among the bushes. Meanwhile, visitors could enjoy 300 butterfly varieties, over ten thousand butterfly specimens in the Butterfly Exhibition Hall.

At the entrance to the Butterfly Spring Park there is a huge Monarch Butterfly model mounted on a cliff beside the gate. The model has an area over 280 square meters (0.07 acres). It looks so vivid that people may think the butterfly is waving its wings to welcome visitors. He Jingzhi, a famous poet in China, visited here and was so astonished by the huge butterfly model that he wrote an inscription titled the No.1 Butterfly under the Heaven to praise it.

In the park's 400-meter-long Butterfly Grotto, spring water oozes from the sandy layer in the rock every day and forms a pool. This is the Butterfly Spring. The grotto holds many stalactites with varieties of shapes, such as fruits, mountains, divinities and the moon. Amongst them, there are some which look like butterflies and are absolutely lifelike.

Except for the spring and the grotto, Die Yuan (a garden for viewing butterflies) is also a well-marked sight in the park. It is the largest area for viewing the living butterflies in China with millions of butterflies living here and getting along with people harmoniously. Visitors can see the colorful butterflies flying leisurely among the bushes. In the Butterfly Exhibition Hall of the park, there are over ten thousand models of about 300 butterfly varieties with unique styles on display. Visitors can also see some valuable butterflies here, such as the nymphalid and papilio. The papilio is the most beautiful one and is commonly called the queen of butterflies.

In the Butterfly Spring Park, there are many other points of interest, such as the Waterfalls on Butterfly Hill, the Butterfly Bridge, the Honeybee Garden and the unique Original Hanging Bridge of Yangshuo. In the Honeybee Garden, visitors can taste wild honey for free.

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