Walk along for about 10 meters there is the poem stone wrote by Zhu De when he visited Lanpu Park: “Only the fragrance orchids are nice, they become precious in Wuyangcheng (Guangzhou)”. He even presented the rare orchids he had planted himself to exhibit in Lanpu Park, and tied a deep relationship with this park.

“National Aroma Tea Art Hall” is very well known. People called Plum, Orchid, Chrysanthemum and Bamboo “Four Man of Honor” in the old days. The aroma of orchid is unique, very faint yet penetrating, so it has the title of “national aroma”“the first Aroma of the world”. The two Chinese Characters “Guo Xiang” (National Aroma) were written by the former vice-chairman Dong Biwu, so this hall was named “National Aroma Hall”.

From National Aroma Hall and walk along, it is Emerge Spring and artificial waterfalls. It has sceneries such as “Small bridge flowing water and cuckoo mountain” and “I doubted there would be no paths as the mountain road ended and water turned, but there came into sight a village in the shadowy willows and bright flowers”. Tourists not only hear the purl sound, but also have a view of the splendid azalea. The green pine, bird twitter will make the tourists in deep mountains and wild nature. The saying goes like “Flower scent, bird twitter, green pines and bamboos of the beautiful scenery in Lanpu Park isolate people from the busy streets”. Through narrow ladders and lanes, past Azalea Mount, the cottage appears in front of a stone bridge, surrounded by green bamboo. The characters for Cottage were written by Mr. Rong Geng, the famous calligrapher and archeologist. The North Gate of Lanpu Park is just past Spring Light Pavilion.

In the west of Lanpu Park, there are sites like Mingjing Pavilion and Fanghua Garden. Mingjing Pavilion was built in the beginning of the Reform, whose stele was written by Lin Xi—then the Vice Mayor to teach the Party cadres to self-discipline. In the large bronze mirror, there is a story about the official career of Xu Jiu and the famous couplet “If the officials do not work for people's benefits, then they'd better retire to be pedlar”.

100 meters from Mingjing Pavilion is exquisite and interesting Fanghua Garden. In the garden, the scenes are centered on water, including a pavilion and a terrace as the major body, with surrounding flowers, trees, streams, bridge and rockworks, which presents a miniature natural scene for tourists. Although the Garden covers only half mu, the unique idea of the designer makes it exquisite and stylistic, which combines the flavor of gardens in South Yangtze—tasteful and flexural, with the style of Lingnan garden—bright and direct.

This garden had once represented China to take part in the 16th International Gardening Exhibition in Munich, West Germany and had won two unusual honors as the great gold medal of German Federal Republic and the gold medal of Federal Gardening Construction Central Association. The Fanghua Garden in front of you if the sample presented in the exhibition.

It is a great pleasure to taste tea in Lanpu Park. The tea art places include Mingjing Pavilion, Xiyin Room, roadside pavilion, Guoxiang Hall, with their unique styles. Stay in Mingjing Pavilion is quiet with a bird view of the scenes in the Park with a breeze now and then. Stay in Xiyin Room is pleasant with tea scent and indistinct purl sound. Stay in roadside pavilion is harmonious, where tourists can take a rest and enjoy the beautiful doom of the pavilion. Stay in Guoxiang Hall is pure with its delicate atmosphere, exquisite furniture and graceful tea set. Tourists can choose one of the places to enjoy the charm of Lanpu Park—the city oasis.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 8 per person
Traffic: Buses No.5、6、7、10、21、24、33、58、63、101、103 can take you there.

Located on Guangta Lu, Huaisheng Mosque (Huaisheng guangtisi) was the first mosque to be built in China. It currently boasts over 40 prayer mats in Chinese and Arabic dating from the Tang Dynasty to the fall of the feudal empires. Many Muslims believe a temple was first constructed here in the 7th Century. The Mosque is held in high regard by Muslims today. The Mosque is not usually open to non-Muslims but the building's impressive symetrical architecture is worth admiring from outside.

Traffic: Take bus No.31 from the Railway Station to Ximenkou or the metro to the same stop.

Jiulong Lake Holiday Resort is situated in the northeastern part of Huadu City covering an area of 14.1 square kilometers. Reservoir here is surrounded by mountains that circle around. Mountain peaks are one after another competing to show their curiosity and forest flourishes and stretches continuously. The air is fresh and clean and animals could be seen from now and then. The reservoir zigzags like the swimming of a dragon and is therefore called “the Jiulong Lake”. After years of construction, facilities such as natural swimming pool, parachute on water, tour and speed boats, art performance on water, children's amusement park, greenery barbecue and golf course, etc. are opened for use. There are also holiday villas with beautiful environment, multi-functional conference rooms, Chinese and Western restaurants, music and dancing rooms, etc. The dam of Jiulong Reservoir reaches a height of over 50 meters with a length of more than 100 meters. The surface of the lake covers an area of 2.4 square kilometers. The deepest bottom of the water is 50 meter from the water surface, equivalent of the height of a building with more than 10 storeys. It is the biggest reservoir in Huadu. The reservoir hides itself in mountains, like a swimming dragon, has a length of a few kilometers.

The Huadu District Hong Xiuquan Memorial Hall was built in 1991 in commemoration of Hong Xiuqian, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. It consists of a Foreword section and four exhibition sections, where elaborated designed scenes, wooden relief sculptures and large oil paintings are displayed to describe Hong Xiuquan's strenuous efforts to save his country and people and his role in spearheading in the Taiping Rebellion.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 5 per person
Address: No.52 Xinhua Road, Xinhua Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou City
Opening Hour: 8:00-17:00
Traffic: Take Bus No.237 to the Huadu District Bus Station and transfer to Bus No.12

Put up in 1999, Huadu Square locates in the north of the CCP committee and government office building of Huadu district, it is more than 300 meters wide and more than 500 meters long, occupies 18 hectare, equals to half a Tian An Men square in Beijing. Now it has become park type recreation square. There are some buildings such as outdoor theater, large size fountain, open air dance floor, statuary, etc. inside the square. The green area reaches 70%. Its attractive appearance includes western Europe type meadow, subtropics wood and flower Layout.