CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- In June, lotus flowers in Shili Lotus Garden in Yongchuan, Chongqing have been in full bloom, and the Seventh “Chongqing Shili Lotus Appreciation and Lotus Picking Festival” has been opened recently. This Lotus Picking Festival will last until August 30. During this period, Shili Lotus Garden will launch the preferential activities of consumer coupons of 60 yuan for adult ticket of 30 yuan and consumer coupons of 30 yuan for half-price children ticket.

Lotus flowers were blooming in Shili Lotus Garden (Picture provided by Shili Lotus Garden)

“This Lotus Picking Festival is the one with the most experience projects and the most preferential policies for us,” said Zhang Youhua, head of Shili Lotus Garden. On the basis of the previous lotus viewing and lotus picking projects, this year, the Garden has launched more than 30 new amusement projects, such as air super swing about 12m, high-altitude slide, jungle crossing, water shaking bridge, etc., which can bring rich and colorful play experience to parents and children.

Tourists took a boat ride in the Lotus Pond (Picture provided by Shili Lotus Garden)

Shili Lotus Garden was built in 2011. At present, the rural leisure and sightseeing projects in the garden have been well established. The Garden covers an area of 3,200 mu, with lotus ponds about thousands of mu and lotus flowers about more than one hundred kinds. It also has the longest green melon and fruit corridor in Southwest China and a hundred mu flower sea, which is a good place for tourists to take photos and visit. At the same time, in terms of catering, the Garden has developed a local famous lotus feast, which can also provide tourists with outdoor barbecue, small hot pot and other food services.

A girl was enjoying flowers. (Picture provided by Shili Lotus Garden)

 (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)