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Yeya Lake National Wetland Park 野鸭湖国家湿地公园Yěyā Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Yeya Lake National Wetland Park
A national wetland park of reservoir shallows, rivers, reed beds and marsh on the south-western edge of Yanqing, the largest wetland in the Beijing area and part of a municipal nature reserve. Migrating and wintering water birds, among them cranes, storks and swans, make it a noted birdwatching site, named one of Beijing's ten best in 2015, and a wetland museum explains the ecosystem.
How to get to Yeya Lake National Wetland Park
About 12 km south-west of Yanqing town and some 85 km north-west of central Beijing by road.
Nearby
- Badaling Great Wall 八达岭长城 10 km
Ming ramparts climbing both ways from a fortified pass, a short fast train from Beijing - Longqing Gorge 龙庆峡 20 km
Boat rides between sheer cliffs in summer, a festival of lit ice sculptures in winter - Ming Tombs 明十三陵 40 km
Stone guardians on the Sacred Way and an emperor's underground palace to walk through - Cuandixia Village 爨底下村 50 km
Ming and Qing courtyard houses stacked in tiers up a hillside in the western mountains - Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 50 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn
Also within 20 km: Guyaju Caves 古崖居 (under 10 km), Beijing Horticultural Expo Park 北京世园公园 (under 10 km), Qinglongqiao Station, Jingzhang Railway 京张铁路青龙桥站 (20 km), Shuiguan Great Wall (Badaling) 水关长城 (20 km).
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