Shanghai Chuansha Park 川沙公园

This weekend we went to a place nearby in Pudong called Chuansha. It is roughly less than 30 mins away by car from our apartment. There is a park called Chuansha Park 川沙公园.

Chuansha park is situated in Chuansha new town of Pudong new area and composed of two gardens, i.e. east and west gardens which are separated by city connection river. The park occupies an area of 52.2 thousand of square meters and is opened to the public on Dec 1st, 1985.
Chuansha Park undergone major reconstruction since Sept 2007 and the reconstruction project was completed in March 2008.

When we arrived, we were amazed to find that this park is quite lively. It seems that there are a lot of peddler selling them wares in front of the entrance of this park. Looks a bit like our morning market back in Penang.

Entrance to this park is free. The west garden take advantage of traditional Yangtze river southern garden making arts, utilizing veranda, river side pavilions, wall and tree to carve up space, form scenic areas and distribute scenic spots; East garden features art recreation facilities.

Main entrance of the park

Guide map to the park

Immediately after entering the park, we could see a whole area of bamboo trees. A walking distance from this the pavilion in the lake. This is called the 白漾亭 White ripple Pavilion. We could see lots of family renting boats and boating in the middle of the lake.

White ripple Pavilion

Main scenic areas in this park included:
Lucid wave lake scenic area, with a lake area of 4,000 square meters, whose main scenic spots are "Scenery Pavilion", "White ripple Pavilion" 白漾亭, "Lotus Interest plucking Pavilion", "Water Flow Oriole Singing Bridge" and "Dark green Ring Cataract".

Billows viewing scenic area which is divided by wall into two independent gardens: "Billows Viewing Pavilion" and "Townsman Embracing Pavilion".

Bamboo forest hill scenic area, whose main scenic spots include "Wind Drawing" bamboo pavilion, "In Bamboo Forest" stone bridge.

We spent quite some time to wander around this park enjoying the scenery.

There is a rock formation that is called "Water Flow Oriole Singing Bridge". Could see lots of people climbing this rock although there were signs specifically stated "Don't Climb". In Rome do like the Romans, we did some climbing too.

Crane singing building 鹤鸣楼 occupies an area of 1,600 square meters and is as high as 54 meters. The building is an ancient imitation architecture, obviously 5 but truly 7 stories, with a building area of 4,200 square meters. From a far one could see this magnificent structure towering from the center of the park.

Distant view of the Crane singing building

Main entrance with 2 lions statues

Crane singing building 鹤鸣楼

The stone sign

City connection river scenic area, whose main scenic spot is "Double Friendship Bridge" which is three hole arched. Long tortuous verandas along the meandering banks form the supporting scenic spot. Below is the "Double Friendship Bridge" 双谊桥. We did not go beyond this bridge to the amusement park area.

Double Friendship Bridge 双谊桥

We ended our visit here and headed back home. Was a short trip.