Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan 云南西双版纳热带植物园

Location: China, Yunnan, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Google Maps Amap
Part of: Xishuangbanna, National 5A Tourist Attraction
Nearby: Jianshui Scenic Area 247km, Dianchi Lake, Kunming 361km, Kunming 372km

The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences stands on Hulu Island, a loop of the Luosuo River at Menglun in Mengla County; the botanist Cai Xitao founded it in the late 1950s. Covering about 900 hectares and holding a large collection of tropical plants, it is a leading center for tropical plant research.

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan

Photo: Liuxingy (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)