International Peach Blossom Music Festival in Pinggu

The 20th International Peach Blossom Music Festival was open on April 10 and will last until May 30. During the festival, visitors can enjoy a sea of peach flowers, savor the local food and participate in a string of relaxing sports activities.

Pinggu, a famous peach planting area in China, is home to the largest peach garden in the world and the largest fruit area in Beijing with 220 thousand mu of peach trees. In April and May, mountains here are covered by a sea of peach flowers. Visitors can embrace peach flowers in the flower sea. They can also climb to Peach Flower Viewing Pavilion of Xiaojin Mountain to have a bird's-eye view. Another alternative is to drive through the 100-li-long peach flower viewing corridor to enjoy the pleasure.

Beijing Botanical Garden

When peach trees bloom, bright, elegant peach flowers are always appealing to a huge number of visitors. With more than 6,000 peach trees, Beijing Botanical Garden is home to the largest variety of peach flowers in the world, with ornamental peach alone covering an area of 100mu. As spring comes, more than 40 varieties of peach flowers are in full blossom. In Beijing Botanical Garden, you can appreciate over 10,000 peach trees of nearly 70 varieties in Ornamental Peach Garden, including red-white ornamental peach, crimson peach, dwarf peach, and Prunus persica Chrysanthemoides.

Shuanglong Mountain Forest Park

Billed as “Small Mount Huang in West of Beijing”, Shuanglong Mountain Forest Park offers green mountains and clean waters, and is famous as a land of idyllic beauty and a fruit picking base. In spring, stretches of blossoming peach forests can be seen on wayside and along rivers, together with apricot flowers, azalea, lilac and lily.

With picturesque landscape, Shuanglong Mountain Forest Park is a Shangri-la and a fruit picking base. It is home to mountain leisure industry with landscape, entertainment and enjoyment.

Address: 4km away from northwest of Ming Tombs, Changping District

Jiangjuntuo Scenic Area

Jiangjuntuo Scenic Area is a natural scenery area. You can find a rich variety of fruit trees, including apricot, peach, apple, walnut, persimmon and others. The varieties of peach include Qingfeng, Baifeng, Jiubao and other 5 ones. In early spring, namely from early April to early May, the Scenic Area is a place where mountain peach flower, herba violae, Violet Orychopragmus, apricot flower, and pear flower vie to blossom, turning Jiangjuntuo into a sea of flowers. You can also view arresting sceneries at the foot of mountains and along streams.

Address: Tanmugang Village, Hebei Town, Fangshan District