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Daguan Lou and Daguan Park 大观楼Dàguān Lóu
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Daguan Lou and Daguan Park
A lakeside park in south-western Kunming whose focal point is Daguan Lou, a three-storey Qing-dynasty pavilion facing south over Dian Lake towards the Western Hills. The pavilion is known for the long couplet by the Qing scholar Sun Ran on its gateposts, reputed to be the longest in China, and the willow-lined park around it is a local favourite for tea, kite-flying and boating.
How to get to Daguan Lou and Daguan Park
About 5 km south-west of central Kunming, around 20 minutes by taxi or city bus.
Nearby
- Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 under 10 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Also within 20 km: Kunming Sunac Ocean World 昆明融创海世界 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km), Yunnan Military Academy 云南陆军讲武堂 (under 10 km), Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming 抗战胜利纪念堂 (under 10 km), Fulintang Pharmacy 福林堂 (under 10 km), Former Site of National Southwest Associated University 国立西南联合大学旧址 (under 10 km).
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