It's not a space station, it's the Taiyuan Botanical Garden

The Taiyuan Botanical Garden is such a surprise and so romantic! A 60-meter-long popular escalator, like a time tunnel, with twinkling lights✨ against the blue night sky, gives a feeling of stars and the bright galaxy, it's stunningly beautiful! This most beautiful botanical garden🌴, which integrates technology and ecology, was reconstructed by the Austrian Delugan Meissl Associated Architects on the site of an old coal mine. Its unique wooden grid dome structure of the greenhouse complex won the ENR2021 Global Best Project Award🌟, and it was the only project from China selected that year! 🎫Tickets 📆November 1st - March 31st of the following year, 30 yuan 📆April 1st - October 31st, 50 yuan ⌚Opening hours: 9:00-19:00, entry stops at 18:00 🚍Bus: Take bus 308/310 to Jinyang Avenue Tangcheng Street The main buildings of the park are three 'dewdrop' greenhouses The themes are divided into tropical rainforest🌳, desert plants🌵, and rare flowers🌹 In the tropical rainforest pavilion, there is also an indoor super high waterfall💦 Walking through it, you get a sense of jungle adventure🏕 The desert plant pavilion is full of giant cacti🌵 With a strong exotic atmosphere🔮 Visiting the botanical garden You must not miss the 'Time Escalator'❤️ As night falls, the lights come on💡 The sightseeing escalator, like a time tunnel With sparkling lights and deep blue night So beautiful it leaves you speechless At this moment, enjoy the dazzling starry sky🌠 Taking the elevator up Feels like traveling through time Giving a magical sense of passage From the observation deck, you can overlook the park The three 'dewdrops' are filled with a sense of technology under the embellishment of the starry beauty Just like a 'space station' 🌟Tour route 1️⃣Petting zoo At the entrance, check the ticket before entering 2️⃣Insect Pavilion Lots of beautiful butterflies🦋, skip to the next stop if you're afraid of bugs 3️⃣Swans🦢 and fish🐟 by the lake Exit the Insect Pavilion, go straight out of the building, walk forward a bit to the lake, lots of fish by the shore, red ones swimming around beautifully, and several pairs of black swans and many ducklings 4️⃣Three spheres (Tropical Rainforest Pavilion➕Desert Plant Pavilion➕Flower Pavilion) Walk along the river to reach the three big spheres, all three pavilions are great for photos, the rainforest pavilion even has a big waterfall, just follow the path down 5️⃣Ride around the park (Petting Zoo➕Observation Deck➕Peacock Garden) From the last sphere, walk forward to the ride spot, it's recommended to choose the big car which should be 10 yuan per person, the park is actually quite large, the car will stop at each scenic spot, remember not to lose your ticket, it will be checked each time you board. The observation deck is worth climbing for the view, it's quite high and you can see far; the Petting Zoo has alpacas, rabbits, horses, and sheep; you can skip the Peacock Garden without getting off, because if you want to go in you have to spend money to buy food to feed them, they won't let you in without feeding... 6️⃣Popular elevator The popular elevator lights up around eight o'clock in the evening, depending on the season it's later in the summer. You can sit by the lake and feed the ducks, take pictures of the swans, enjoy the cool breeze in the evening, or go back to the entrance building, turn right after entering and there's a plant specimen exhibition hall.