Location: Mentougou District-Fengtai District-Daxing District
Recommended Route: Jingxi Eighteen Ponds-Wangping Wetland- Beijing Garden Expo Park-Daxing Riverside Forest Park
Best Time to Visit: All Year
Duration: 1 day
Suitable for family tour, self-driving and group outdoor package tour
Brief Introduction: Visitors will enjoy unique natural scenery and leisure resorts including complicated geological conditions, wetland parks, international garden expo park, and public leisure park alongside the Yongding River.
Tourist Activities: Outdoor Leisure, Dabbling
Recommended Reasons:
An ideal line for family tour and leisure travel on weekends. Visitors can experience diverse ecological landscape and water parks in Garden Expo Park and leisure park. China's first national garden exposition includes Chang Garden in Suzhou, Journal of Guangdong Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou Stone-made Villa in the south, and royal gardens in the north with over 2,000 exhibits.
Route Highlights:
01 Wangping Wetland
Wangping Wetland is one core area of Mentougou Wetland Natural Reserve along Yongding River in Wangping Town, west to Wangping Sike and east to Nanjian Sike.
02 Jingxi Eighteen Ponds
Located at the north of the Clear Water Peak which is about 1,528 meters, Jingxi Eighteen Ponds is famous for deep valleys, grotesque rocks, special waters and charming flowers. The well-known scenic area consists of 3 falls, 6 spots and 18 ponds with admiring streams, greenery, multiple ranges of hills, sharp stones and cliff caves.
03 Beijing Garden Expo Park
Beijing Garden Expo Park, the host of 9th China International Garden Expo, is located on the west bank of Yongding River in Fengtai District, north to West Lianshi Road, south to West Extension of Meishikou Road, west to Beigong Road, and southwest to Garden Expo Avenue. The exhibition area covers an area of 267 hectares and the Garden Expo Lake covers an area of 246 hectares, totaling 513 hectares. The large public welfare city park integrates garden art, cultural landscape, ecological leisure and scientifical education.
04 Daxing Riverside Forest Park
Daxing Riverside Forest Park has 10 scenic attractions including Lin Hai Xun You, Xi Xi Qian Ying and You Zhou Tai Ge. The park covers slope, hills, grasslands, lakes, islands, forests and other natural spots. Facilities for recreation with nature characteristics are provided. The park develops annularly along bicycle paths and Waterfront platform, wooden walkways, watersport center and fishing spots are built in the environmental park for leisure.
