General Introduction:
Tianlu Lake Forest Park is located in the northeast of GuangZhou City. It boasts the flourishing trees, beautiful scenery and rich plant species in it. As an uncommon ecological park in Guangzhou, it has the rare plant fossil — Cyatheaceae and a kind of large wooden liane flower—ricebird flower. Tianlu Lake Reservoir was built in 1958 and its normal elevation-area is 1,280 mu with 7.30 million cubic meters of water storage. The natural beauty of lakes and mountains around it attracts many tourists all the year round. It is the largest reservoir with the highest elevation in the outskirt of Guangzhou City. It is even compared as the “eastern lung” of Guangzhou City. It is an ideal place for leisure activities and spending summer holidays.
It is planned to build a Jurassic Park, the first one of this kind in china, in the “scientific and entertainment area” of dinosaur park in the Forestry Park. The Jurassic Park will be located in Shuishengxia Village. Based on the principle of protecting ecological environment, acoustic, optical and electrical technologies will be adopted in designing it. With the theme of “dinosaur”, the park will be built into a new theme park integrating science, leisure, entertainment and environment protection. The most complete dinosaur fossils of the biggest number will be displayed to tourists.
The forest area in the east of the First Ring Road is designed as “forest mountain climbing and visiting area”. Based on the former Tianlu Lake Suburb Park, it will be extended to the highest peak Niutou Peak (352 meters) in the south and to Shantang area in the north of Tianlu Lake. This area is mainly used for climbing and visiting mountains. According to their features, four theme areas, namely, climbing to the top to appreciate a panorama, visiting Suburb Park, enjoying leisure time in garden and protecting environment, will be divided.
Besides, based on the resources of Tianlu Lake Forest Park, more parks and gardens will be built such as Tianlu Lake Medical Plants Park, Tianlu Lake Bamboo Garden, Tianlu Lake Endangered Plants Garden, Chaoshan People Village and Hakka People Village. All of these are worth of visiting, especially their human features and beautiful scenery.
Ecological park, suitable for leisure and spending summer holidays
Location: By Guangshan Road, east of Baiyun Mountain; 17 kilometers far from Shahe.