Hengqin Flower Corridor enhanced for leisure pleasures
Camp sites and recreational facilities have been added to Hengqin Flower Corridor along with miniature exhibits, a vast lawn, and flower garden to provide visitors with outdoor enjoyment and picturesque scenery.
Three camp sites are located near stone waterscapes at the Numbers 1, 2, and 5 rest stations where campers can picnic on open lawns. The miniature exhibits have Hengqin, ecological, dry land, and Lingnan (Cantonese) characteristics at the European, Ecological, Lingnan (Cantonese), and Coastal rest stations.
Hengqin Flower Corridor [Photo by Zeng Yao / Zhuhai Daily]
Public lawns cover 20,000 sqm (5 acres) and have 18 landscape designs, flower fields, and children's swings and spring rider horses, according to Zhuhai Da Heng Qin Investment.
The flower corridor is 13.6 km (8.5 miles) long beside the Maliuzhou Waterway from the Hengqin Bridge to Gang'ao Avenue. It is 60 m (65 yd) wide and lined with 200 varieties such as orchids, canna lilies, and coreopsis (tickseed) with a view of the Hengqin and Second Hengqin bridges.
Around 4,700 floss silk (ceiba speciosa) trees have been planted in a 6-km (4-mile) section on North Qinhai Road, which attract numerous visitors when flowering from November to January. The corridor also consists of a 4.6-km (2.9-mile) section of flame trees that bloom from June to August and 3-km (1.9-mile) portion of kapok (delonix regia) trees that blossom in February and March.