NORTHERN HOT SPRINGS PARK
Good morning! Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to chongqing! I am very glad to be your local tour guide for today’s visit! And now we are on the way to the northern hot spring park! And it will take us 1.5 hour to get there! So first let me introduce my team and give an overview of our today’s scenic spot to you! My name is zhang jingying.You can just call me Angela if that is easier for you to remember.This is our driver Mr.Wang.You can just call him laowang.He has about 10 years driving and working experience in the travel industry.So you are in very safe and competent hands.We are from china youth travel service, chongqing branch.On behalf of our company, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to you. Welcome to china.Welcome to chongqing! And we will try our best to make your visit a very pleasant and enjoyable one! During the tour if you have any questions or some good ideas please point them out or just tell me, I will try my best to satisfy you.So next let me give you a brief introduction of hot springs of CQ! Hot springs here are worldwide tourism resources.And also they are developed in a very previous time! Due to the abundant natural resources of hot spring, the governor of chongqing has decided to make CQ become a hot spring metropolis, a card CQ shows the world!
And in 2006, the conception of 五方十泉 established at last.As time goes by, it is basically completed.Today we will visit one hot spring of them-the northern hot springs park! No stay in Chongqing is complete without a visit to the Northern Hot Springs Park as it has so much to offer you visitors and is rightly considered to be a pearl of the Jialing River.The park lies at the foot of Jinyun Mountain on the north side of the Jialing River.It is about 52 kilometers (32miles) from the city center and although it is not very large, just 10 hectares (25 acres), it is Chongqing\'s foremost garden park.Here, you can enjoy a beautiful scenic area comprising temples, hills, water, woods, springs, gorges, caves and much else besides.There are four main palaces at the center of the park where you can feel something of the religious culture.To the east of the four palaces there is the Guxiang Garden as well as the Stone Inscription Garden, Fish Pond and Water Lily Pool.Guxiang Garden is the original site of the Hot Springs Temple.It is here that the tombs of monks from the Song (960-1279), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties are preserved.The Stone Inscription Garden contains steles dating from these three dynastic periods, while a notable feature is the Ming Dynasty Panlong Tower, the treasure of stone inscriptions.To the north of the palaces the park has caves and five ornamental ponds.All of the buildings and pavilions have been sited so as to compliment their surroundings so that with the green bamboos, clear water and elegant hills the park is very picturesque.Naturally, the hot springs are the main feature of the park.There are ten springs altogether in the park and the temperature of the water is a constant 35C-37C (95.0F-98.6F).The water contains alkali minerals that are considered as having beneficial medicinal properties.The warm water offers an excellent way to relax from the strees of day to day existence and it also benefits those who suffer from skin problems, arthritis and many other common ailments.Apart from a standard swimming pool there are 75 indoor bathrooms, a newly built triangular indoor swimming pool and a play pool for children.In addition, the park has an abundance of natural flora and fauna.The plants that naturally occur here are mainly tropical and semitropical evergreens, horsetail pines and a large area covered by bamboo groves.Bedding plants, mainly flowers, well maintained lawns and fruit trees add to the overall colorful ambiance.The park is also home to many species of small animals and birds such as squirrels, hares, owls, crows, doves, cuckoos, parrots, magpies, thrushes and sparrows that you are sure to encounter when you are strolling here.With its many historic sites and fair sceneries, Northern Hot Springs Park offers you a welcome and an escape from the preures of city life.
重庆温泉之都英文导游词(the city of hotspring )
