Thousand-Island Lake

Located in the west of Zhejiang province, Thousand-Island Lake is 145 kilometers to the provincial capital, Hangzhou, and 128 kilometers to splendid Mountain Huangshan. This is a shining pearl on this Hangzhou-Thousand-Island Lake-Mountain Huangshan international golden tourist route. The big lake has an area of 573 square kilometers which is 108 times of that of Hangzhou West Lake. In further, the capacity is more than 3,000 times of that of West Lake. So it has been given an epithet of three thousand Xizi. The advantaged Thousand-Island Lake has long and zigzag lakeshore line, wide lake surface and 1,078 scattered islands. Especially, long time water and soil conservation has formed an entironment of green mountains, flourishing woods, fresh air and clean lake. The magnate of domestic water industry, Nongfu Fountain, is originated from here.

Especially, Thousand-Island Lake Town, the county seat where Thousand-Island Lake is located, is rounded by mountains and water and has many flowers and trees. Its landscape of a town of mountains and half a town of lake has attracted many tourists and made them enjoy themselves so much as to forget to go home. On 18 October 2004, in Niagara City of Canada, it got the only golden laurel in the final of the Eighth International Garden Cities Type B Cities. Up to now, this is the only Type B city in China, and even in Southeast Area. This is a real Jangnan landscape famous city.

Good natural gift and beautiful entironment make Thousand-Island Lake get rather high recognition and reputation in the country. It has obtained many honorable titles such as National Key Scenic Area, the First Batch of National AAAA Tourist Area, National Ecological Demo Zone and the largest National Forest Park in China. In recent years, the tourism of Thousand-Island Lake has become mature. The industrial type has changed from the type focusing on sightseeing tourism to the type of complex tourism integrated with sightseeing, leisure, vacation, meeting and water sports.

At Thousand-Island Lake, you could have a night in a lakeside villa, have a cruise by luxurious yacht, take a walk on an isolated island, and find a leisure sky of your own.

Thousand-Island Lake is marching forward to the target of a leisure resort of the world level.

Publishes at : 07-08-06 22:31

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