Nanshan Botanical Garden

Nanshan Botanical Garden located at Nanshan Mountain and was found based on this mountain with a coverage area of 551 hectares in 1999. Nanshan Botanical Garden is 15 kilometers away from the downtown of Chongqing Municipality, which is the few suburban scenic spot of China with its rich negative ion and fresh air. Nanshan Botanical Garden is called "Green Protective Barrier" of Chongqing Municipality. It is a low mountain view of botanical garden of science research and garden art landscape, which mainly collects subtropical low mountain plant of China.

Nanshan Botanical Garden divided into 18 different kinds of specialized gardens such as ornamental plant area, scientific research area and plant ecological reserve. All the year around, you can smell the sweet fragrance so that Nanshan Botanical Garden was praised as the "Flower Crown in Chongqing City".

Nanshan Botanical Garden – Attraction

In the Nanshan Botanical Garden, there are Rose Garden, Bonsai Garden, Camellia Garden, Outskirts Park, Golden Eagle Park, and Central View Garden and so on. Nanshan Botanical Garden had collected more than 1,000 famous and precious flowers from home and abroad such as Chinese flowering apple, osmanthus fragrans, oriental cherry blossom, plum blossom, camellia, rhododendron, hyacinth orinntal, magnolia, crape myrtle and boneset.

Besides, you can have a walk on the Cherry Square, Fountain Square or just relax yourself on the leisure land. Nanshan Botanical Garden is the best place of summer resort.

Rose Garden

The Rose Garden is one of the most famous gardens in Nanshan Botanical Garden. Covering an area of 176 mu (130,666 square meters), the garden integrates the landscape of parks and scientific meaning of botanical gardens. The Cherry Road and Cherry Square are crowded by people for enjoying the Cherry blossoms beauty especially from March to May annually.

Bonsai Garden

Bonsai Garden covers an area in excess of 30 mu (twenty thousand square meters) with different kinds of Bonsai and a lot of inscriptions, which shows a profound culture.

Camellia Garden

There are more than 170 different kinds of camellias with the number of 20 thousand in Camellia Garden. In addition, there are also full of ancient camellias of over one hundred year and other national rare plants.

Golden Eagle Park

The Golden Eagle Park lies on the Eagle Peak of Chongqing Nanshan Mountain, with a height of 701.13 meters above the sea level and an area of almost 200 mu (1 mu=666.67 square meters). It is the summit and one of the remarkable buildings of Chongqing Municipality. It is named Golden Eagle Park because of the golden eagle statue standing on a red conch in the park.

Single Tree Overlooking Stand

The Nanshan Single Tree Overlooking Stand is also a famous resort of Chongqing Municipality besides the Yangtze River, Three Gorges and Dazu grottos. It can accommodate thousands of people viewing at the same time. You won't miss it when you visit Nanshan Mountain and Nanshan Botanical Garden, which is the best place for Chongqing night view.

Outskirts Park

There are many historical relics of Ming Dynasty's and other facilities in the Outskiet Park in Nanshan Botanical Garden.

Central View Garden

Central View Garden is one of the cultural infrastructures with a coverage area of green land of 35000 square meters, which contains an area of water and wetland of 2500 square meters.