[2024 Nanjing Attraction] Travel Guide for Yanque Lake (Updated Oct)
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Address:
Inside the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Xuanwu District, Nanjing (near Qianqian Park)
Opening times:
Open year round, 24/7Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
2-3 hours
The Metasequoia in Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum takes you into the exquisite world of oil painting
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Scenic Area - Yanzi Lake Scenic Area
Yanzi Lake in Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is at its most beautiful moment of the year. The autumn Metasequoia turns yellow and red, and the scattered Metasequoia and the interlaced light and shadow on the shore look like a painting no matter how you look at it. It's easy to take good photos.
Yanzi Lake in Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the Metasequoia has gradually entered the best viewing period. The lake is very lively, with egrets, swans, mallards, water birds... playing and chasing each other from time to time. If you come to Nanjing for tourism, this is a must-visit place. The early winter Yanzi Lake is like an exquisite oil painting, with a different view at every step.
Time: The end of November and the beginning of December are the most suitable times.
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is free of charge before 6.30, you can go early, not only are there fewer people, but the warm light of the early rising sun is also good for taking pictures. By nine or ten o'clock, the light is harder and brighter.
Location: Yanzi Lake in Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Scenic Area
Tickets: 70, park annual card can be used, free before 6:30 in the morning and after 6:30 in the evening.
Transportation: Exit 1 of Muxuyuan Station on Subway Line 2, turn left and walk 300 meters to Gate 3 of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Scenic Area.
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When you come to Nanjing, be sure to visit the Yanque Lake at Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in the early morning.
Ming Xiaoling's Yanque Lake is really beautiful, especially the leisurely black swans swimming in the lake under the 7 o'clock morning sun, and the fresh and dreamy reflection of the dawn redwood in the lake.
Various water birds fly up and down from time to time, this is the fairytale world in reality.
Small tips:
Before 6:30 in the morning, admission to the Ming Xiaoling Scenic Area is free. This morning, I saw many visitors arriving before 7 o'clock. If you come early, you can enjoy free admission for a while.
Shooting time: May 1st
Shooting location: Yanque Lake, Ming Xiaoling Scenic Area.
Ticket: 70, annual park pass accepted.
🚇Transportation: Take subway line 2 to Muxuyuan Station, exit from Exit 1, walk north for 300 meters to reach the No.3 gate of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. There is a parking lot nearby.
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Nanjing Zhongshan's Three Lakes Walk, who understands this early summer romance?
🌸 The romance of early summer in Nanjing,
Besides the city full of rose walls,
Is the scenery of the three lakes at the foot of Zhongshan.
📕【Zhongshan Half-Day Tour——Three Lakes Route】
Yanque Lake (watching water lilies, bald cypress, water birds) → Qian Lake (botanical garden scenery, city wall relics) → Pipa Lake (full of water shield flowers from the Book of Songs) → Fugui Mountain City Wall
This traditional walking route is about 4km in total, just right for a half-day tour. It's all free (climbing the city wall 🎫5💰, garden card can be used), and there are not many tourists.
📕【Yanque Lake】
📸 This lake of water lilies is the romance of early summer in Nanjing. Black swans and ruddy shelducks frolic freely in the water, and an unmanned black awning boat quietly stops among the water lilies, creating a beautiful artistic conception.
📸 The large patches of bald cypress on the lake shore are also becoming more and more verdant, reflecting in the lake like pieces of glass water, with colorful irises blooming brilliantly by the water.
📸 For a scene like a Monet painting, take a shot at the small bridge at the entrance of Ming Xiaoling's No. 3 gate with water lilies in the frame.
📕【Qian Lake】
📸 You can overlook the small path of the tallow tree in the botanical garden, the Purple Mountain Observatory, and the large lake surface, making people feel refreshed.
📸 You can view the Ming City Wall up close and see the relics of the city wall from different eras.
📕【Pipa Lake】
📸 The lake is full of blooming water shield flowers, shining golden and beautiful.
📸 Water shield flowers are recorded in the Book of Songs: "Guan Guan Ju Jiu, in the river islet. A gentle and graceful lady, a gentleman desires her. Uneven water shield, flowing left and right. A gentle and graceful lady, he seeks her day and night." A few days ago, a fan left a message saying they were confessed to by Pipa Lake, who can resist this romance from the Book of Songs!
📸 Water shield flowers are in full bloom now. These flowers open and close daily, not blooming in low or high temperatures. The best viewing time is from 9 am to 11 am.
📕tips:
📍 Starting point: Yanque Lake, Ming Xiaoling No. 3 gate;
🚘 Transportation: Take Metro Line 2 to Muxuyuan Station, Exit 1, and walk 10 minutes to Ming Xiaoling No. 3 gate
🌸 Nearby attractions: Wutong Avenue, Ming Xiaoling, Baima Park, Zhongshan Botanical Garden.
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The Little Spirits of Yanque Lake
Early summer, the surface of Yanque Lake is covered with blooming water lilies, white as snow, red like the dawn, creating a dreamlike sea of flowers. Various waterfowl play among them, making one feel as if they are in a fairyland.
Emma Davis
From Yanque Lake to Biwa Lake, the 51 most beautiful free routes
Route: Yanque Lake ~ Qian Lake ~ Biwa Lake
1. Walk from the Alfalfa Garden Metro Station to Wutong Avenue to check in.
2. Turn left to the entrance of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum No. 3 to see the metasequoia.
3. Walk along Yanque Lake towards Gate No. 2, along the way you can see water lilies, small boats, water birds, and deer on the opposite shore.
4. Continue forward from Gate No. 2, cross the intersection to the side of Qian Lake, follow the greenway under the city wall along the lake, and walk from Qian Lake to Biwa Lake.
5. Circle around Biwa Lake to see the water chestnuts, and return after passing the entrance of the Botanical Garden along Wutong Avenue.
The whole journey is free and takes about 2 hours without counting photo time.
Just a reminder, water lilies and water chestnuts are sensitive to light, so it's safer to come in the morning or at noon.
For those who like roses, here's another free check-in spot: the Ruins Park next to the Xiamafang Metro Station.
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Have you seen Swan Lake in winter?
You must have just bid farewell to Swan Lake in autumn, and the colorful bald cypress is still fresh in your memory. But have you seen Swan Lake in winter? The silver-wrapped bald cypress is equally beautiful, and what's more amazing is that they are only fifteen days apart~
DAVIS GARZA
This time, I have caught the tail end of autumn in Nanjing
Nanjing - Yanque Lake📍The rime in the early morning at six-thirty is overwhelming, walking in the cypress forest is like being in a fairy tale forest. Feel the rime dissipate and turn into golden sunlight in the forest, feel the passage of time, hurry up and catch the tail end of autumn again.
ELAINE MANN
Nanjing| The beautiful Metasequoia in Yanzi Lake is like an oil painting
|The beautiful Metasequoia in Yanzi Lake is like an oil painting. Just hearing the name of Metasequoia is beautiful, with its feather-like light and soft leaves, falling like feathers dancing in the air, indescribable poetry and elegance.
The end of autumn and early winter is the most spectacular moment of this Metasequoia. It no longer retains its green but puts on a fiery red and golden dress.
Each leaf seems to be carefully dyed by the brush of autumn, showing the ingenious work of nature to the fullest.
When the breeze blows, each feather that falls with the wind covers the entire forest and the surface of the water with a thick 'red carpet', a touching natural scroll just emerges before your eyes. The coots that appear on the lake from time to time seem to be intoxicated in this beauty, they leisurely swim in the water, and occasionally play under the Metasequoia. This is the most beautiful oil painting version of the scenery given to us by nature.
Yanzi Lake Metasequoia
🚇Exit 1 of Alfalfa Garden on Line 2, walk for 5-6 minutes to Gate 3 of Ming Xiaoling
70 yuan (free admission before 6:30, if you only want to take pictures of the Metasequoia on the opposite bank, you can also not enter the park)
⏰6:30-18:30
Be sure to come and take pictures early in the morning or in the evening on a sunny day📸, you can take better pictures of the golden lake and red Metasequoia under the morning mist and soft light
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If you don't come here in Nanjing, you're confused!!
The orange tone in deep winter is still fascinating
This is probably the tail of the Taxodium distichum
The sunlight spills into clusters of lush cypress leaves
It's like hiding countless little elves to perform at a specific time
The limited oil painting, the golden sunlight
In the hearts of our generation
The experience of growing up with paper media and television
When there was no word for 'planting grass'
I was deeply fascinated by the Taxodium distichum of the same kind as National Geographic
Yanque Lake
🚗Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum No.3 Gate Yanque Lake
Next to it is the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, if you don't want to visit the scenic area, you can also take pictures outside, it's really beautiful, it's a sight for a thousand years, you will say 'wow' every second you look at it
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum
Enter the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum scenic area before 6:30 for free admission;
After 6:30, the ticket is 70 yuan per person;
If you have a Nanjing Citizen Park annual card, you can get free admission;
Zoey Carter
Feathers fall, forming poetry, at the Yanque Lake
In the dim light of dawn at Yanque Lake, a thin layer of mist hovers over the lake surface, serene and dreamlike. Occasionally, three or two coots swim across the lake, the ripples gently spreading, adding a touch of liveliness.
Around eight o'clock, the sunlight pours down, the light and shadow wander among the fir trees, the red, yellow, green and light reflect each other, like a world in an oil painting.
MADDISON BARNETT
Nanjing's first snow| The Yanzi Lake after the snow is beautiful again
| The Yanzi Lake after the snow is beautiful again. Nanjing's first snow| The Yanzi Lake after the snow is beautiful again. The first snow in Nanjing in 2023 came unexpectedly
It was also one of the bigger first snows in my memory
There was accumulated snow in the morning, and I went to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum scenic area early in the morning. The Yanzi Lake after the snow, has reached a new level of beauty. The Taxodium distichum has already shed a lot, and the fallen leaves all over the ground make the whole Yanzi Lake very deep red
Red and white interspersed, and black swans swimming on the lake surface. Although it's cold, such a beautiful scene is really worth it!
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Gate No. 3
√Tickets are 70, now it has been changed to free entry to Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum before 7 o'clock√You can also take very beautiful scenery outside
The forecast says there will be another snow on the 18th, looking forward to it(◇~) Share the snow viewing route of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum
Gate No. 3 enters - Yanzi Lake - Honglou Art and Literature Garden - Shixiang Road - Wenwu Fangmen - Exit No. 7 Zhongshan Scenic Area - Yanzi Lake
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Nanjing Yanzi Lake
As early winter approaches, Yanzi Lake in Nanjing Zhongshan Scenic Area is in the midst of splendid autumn colors. The metasequoia and dawn redwood leaves in the park are turning yellow, the tree shadows are swaying, and the various colors of red, orange, yellow and green create a fairy-tale world, which is extremely beautiful.
Logan Montgomery
Nanjing Yanzi Lake
Nanjing is a city with a long history and beautiful scenery, and Nanjing Yanzi Lake is one of its shining pearls. Yanzi Lake Scenic Area is located in Jiangning District, Nanjing, covering an area of more than 2,000 acres. It is a tourist destination integrating natural landscape, wetland ecology, and leisure and entertainment. In this wetland park, the trees are shaded, the lake is clear, and various birds nest and breed here, forming a beautiful picture.
Day 1:
In the morning, when you set foot on the land of Nanjing, you can first feel the unique charm of this city. After arriving in Nanjing, go to the reserved hotel to check in, put down your luggage and take a short rest. Nanjing's hotels are well-equipped and the service is thoughtful. You can enjoy the hotel's intimate service.
At noon, Nanjing's food culture has a long history, and tasting Nanjing's special food is a unique experience. You can choose a nearby restaurant or snack bar to taste delicious food, such as delicious duck blood vermicelli soup, sweet and sour ribs, Jinling salted duck, etc., to satisfy your taste buds.
In the afternoon, go to Yanzi Lake Scenic Area, enjoy the lake view, visit Yanzi Lake Wetland Park, and feel the natural scenery. In the wetland park, you can stroll by the lake, enjoy the lake and mountain scenery, and feel the beauty of nature. The ecological environment in the wetland park is very rich, and various plants and animals coexist harmoniously here, which is fascinating.
In the evening, you can choose to taste authentic Nanjing cuisine near the scenic area, or enjoy the nightlife in a nearby bar. Nanjing's night is also colorful, you can feel the beauty of Nanjing's night here.
Day 2:
In the early morning, when the first ray of sunlight is sprinkled on the lake, you can feel the tranquility and beauty of nature. The Yanzi Lake Park in the morning is even more beautiful. You can choose to walk or ride to visit, feel the freshness and tranquility of nature.
At noon, the restaurant in the scenic area or nearby provides a rich lunch choice. You can taste local special dishes, such as steamed bass, mushroom stewed chicken soup, etc., to give your taste buds more enjoyment.
In the afternoon, you can visit Yanzi Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve, understand the wetland ecological environment, and choose to participate in ecological tour activities. Here, you can get close to the wetland ecology, understand the importance of wetland protection, and feel the wonder and charm of nature.
In the evening, taste Jiangnan cuisine or special snacks, feel Nanjing's food culture, and let your taste buds get more care here.
Day 3:
In the morning, visit Yanzi Lake Museum to understand the history and culture of Yanzi Lake. Through the exhibits and introductions of the museum, you can understand the origin, development process, cultural connotation, etc. of Yanzi Lake, so that you have a deeper understanding of this lake.
At noon, taste the food again and feel the unique charm of Nanjing. Nanjing's food culture has a long history, and each dish carries the precipitation of history and culture, giving your taste buds more enjoyment.
In the afternoon, free activities, you can choose to stroll in the scenic area or participate in other local tourism projects. Here, you can enjoy the gifts of nature and feel the unique charm of Nanjing.
In the evening, pack your luggage and prepare to leave Nanjing. In the three-day and two-night trip to Nanjing Yanzi Lake, you can not only appreciate the natural scenery of Yanzi Lake, but also deeply understand Nanjing's history, culture and food culture.
LEONARD SUTTON
The Metasequoia in Yanzi Lake, Nanjing
In early winter, after the autumn wind and frost, the Metasequoia in Yanzi Lake next to the No.3 gate of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum scenic area in Nanjing has been dyed red and golden. Looking around, rows of neat Metasequoia reflected in the lake water, like a beautiful ink painting.
Metasequoia, because its leaves are thin and dense like bird feathers, people vividly call it 'Metasequoia', known as the living fossil in plants.
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Yanque Lake in Nanjing is an artificial lake in Jiangning District, Nanjing, and also an important tourist attraction in Nanjing
This lake is surrounded by a large number of Metasequoia trees, these tall trees become particularly beautiful in autumn, the falling leaves are like fire, colorful, making people exclaim.
Walking in the Metasequoia forest of Yanque Lake is like being in a fairy tale world. The fallen leaves in the forest cover the entire ground, stepping on it makes a rustling sound, making people feel very comfortable. At the same time, the reflection of the lake also makes the whole scenery more charming, making people intoxicated.
In the Metasequoia forest of Yanque Lake, you can freely take photos from various angles, each of which can present a different beauty. Whether it's shooting the reflection of the lake, or the fallen leaves in the forest, it can make your photos more vivid.
In addition to the Metasequoia forest, Yanque Lake has many other attractions. There is a long plank road by the lake, which allows tourists to appreciate the beauty of the lake. There is also a small hill by the lake, on which there is an antique pavilion, where tourists can rest and enjoy the lake view.
In summary, the Metasequoia of Yanque Lake in Nanjing is one of the most beautiful spots in Nanjing in autumn. If you come to Nanjing, don't miss this beautiful place. Whether it's walking in the forest or taking beautiful photos, you can feel the charm of nature.