World Horti-Expo Garden 昆明世博园Kūnmíng Shìbóyuán

About World Horti-Expo Garden

The grounds of the 1999 Kunming International Horticultural Exposition cover about 220 hectares of wooded slopes in the north-eastern suburbs, next to the Golden Temple. The site keeps its exhibition halls, including a large greenhouse, along with themed gardens for tea, bamboo, bonsai, medicinal herbs, trees and vegetables, and dozens of gardens laid out by Chinese provinces and by other countries.

How to get to World Horti-Expo Garden

About 8 km north-east of central Kunming, around half an hour by taxi; World Horti-Expo Park station, the terminus of Kunming Metro Line 5, is by the entrance.

Nearby

• Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
  Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
• Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 20 km
  Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake
• Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
  Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes

Also within 20 km: Golden Temple (Taihe Palace) 太和宫金殿 (under 10 km), Yunnan Wildlife Park 云南野生动物园 (under 10 km), Zhenqing Taoist Temple 真庆观 (under 10 km), Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar 地藏寺经幢 (under 10 km), Lu Han's Mansion 卢汉公馆 (under 10 km), Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill 凤凰山天文台近代建筑 (under 10 km).

On the map

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