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Beijing Zoo, to the west of Beijing Exhibition Center, is actually a natural garden with dense groves of trees, stretches of grassland, a small stream, lotus pools and small hills dotted with pavilions and halls.

Beijing Zoo was called Wan Sheng Garden in the Qing Dynasty (literally it means the Garden of 10, 000 animals). After the Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, this previous royal garden became an experimental filed for farming and animal husbandry. The Zoo was not until 6 years after the founding of the P. R. China in 1955, this garden was officially opened to visitors as the city zoo of Beijing. The Zoo is now the biggest zoo in China with the largest animal species and number.   

Animals are living in different halls or zones of the huge zoo. Some most important are as follows.

The Beijing Ocean Hall measures 35, 000 square meters, located in the northeast of the zoo. Seen from afar, the hall looks like a gigantic ocean trumpet shell. The shape of the architecture tells the visitors that it is a place associated with the sea. Going into this huge "trumpet shell," you find yourself really in close contact with the sea. The spacious hall is subdivided into several zones: the Hall of Tropical Rain Forest, the Hall of the Shark, the Ocean Theater and the Ocean Library and Reading Hall among others. Here the visitors can touch the aquarium in which the dynamic ocean bottom is visible. Through the close contact with the various sea lives, one feels as if he or she was in the bottom of the vast ocean. In addition to seeing the natural conditional of the ocean life, visitors are also invited to enjoy the interesting sea animal show. Those clever and cute sea animals such as dolphin make your trip hard to forget.

The highlight of the Beijing Zoo is perhaps the hall of giant panda. As everyone knows that the giant panda is only found in China and recognized as China’s national treasures and symbol. Due to people's love for them and its endangered status, the giant pandas always receive the "VIP" treatment wherever they go. People can tell who lives here by its unique shape of the hall – bamboo, the favorite food for the cute panda baby. In the hall the lush bushes and bamboo make the place no different from the wild habitat of giant panda in southwest China. Many other halls also attract large number of tourists, among which, the hall of giraffe, hall of gorilla, and the hall of elephant are the most recommendable.

The Beijing Zoo is more than a paradise for animals. A few gardens are built to grow the flower that enjoy the most popularity in China like the Chinese rose and peony (peony is the national flower of China, signifying wealth and prosperity). While observing the lovely animals and the beautiful flowers, tourists can in the meantime enjoy the delicious food in the zoo. The restaurant Bin Feng Tang offers great imperial palace cuisines. There is another important attraction in the zoo-Chang Guan Manor, one of the previous temporary palaces for the Qing imperial family, but it is not opened for public visiting now.

 

 

 

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