• Beijing Botanical Garden

The 31st Peach Blossom Festival kicked off at the Beijing Botanical Garden on March 23 and will last until May 1. In the season, tourists of Beijing Botanical Garden are basking in the sea of flowers consisting of 100 varieties totaling 1.5 million trees, like peach, plum, tulip, crabapple and peony.

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 100 mu. 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.

Beijing Botanical Garden consists of Plant Exhibition Area, Scenic Spots and Historical Sites, Natural Reserve Division and Scientific Research Area. Plant Exhibition Area is made up of Ornamental Plant Area, Tree Zone, and Greenhouse Area. Ornamental Plant Area consists of special gardens, including Rose Garden, Ornamental Peach Garden, Tree-Peony Garden, Herbaceous Peony Garden, Lilac Garden, Crabapple-Cotoneaster Garden, Magnolia Garden, Bamboo Garden, Perennial Garden, and Mei Flower Garden. Ornamental Peach Garden is a special garden with the largest varieties of peach trees. There are also Herb Garden, Wild Fruit Tree Resource Zone, Environment Protecting Plants Zone, Aquatic and Vine Plants Zone, Rare and Endangered Plants Zone, and Tropical Greenhouse. Tropical Plant Exhibition Greenhouse has been rated as one of top 10 buildings in the 1990s of Beijing.

Ticket price during the peach blossom festival: 10 yuan

Address: Xiangshan South Road, Haidian District 海淀区香山南路

• Pinggu

Each spring when peach flowers bloom in Beijing's Pinggu District, numerous citizens and visitors will come to the district.

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.

Areas offering the best peach flowers: Xiaoyuzi Peach Flower Viewing Area, Xiaojin Mountain Flower Viewing Area, Taohuayuan Viewing Area, Xinggong Flower Viewing Area, Daling Flower Viewing Area, Emeishan Flower Viewing Area, and Zhushui Flower Viewing Area.

• Shuanglong Mountain Forest Park

Flourishing peach blossoms, at riverside and along the roadside, blooms over blooms, dress Shuanglong Mountain up in every March and April. In spring, stretches of blossoming peach forests can be seen on wayside and along rivers, together with apricot flowers, azalea, lilac and lily.

Shuanglong Mountain Forest Park features green mountains and clean waters, and is famous as a land of idyllic beauty and a fruit picking base. 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 昌平区明十三陵西北4公里处

• 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 房山区河北镇檀木港村