Manting Park — Attraction in Jinghong City

An extensive park in the south-east of Xishuangbanna containing a wide variety of tropical and sub-tropical plants. A large lake runs through the park and boats are available for hire at certain times of year.

Live animal performances attract many Chinese visitors. Parrots and other tropical birds put on several displays throughout the day while in another arena captive elephants perform three times a day. Sadly these animals all show signs of 'abnormal repetitive behaviour' (ARB). The two captive elephants showed obvious signs of ARB such as repetitive pacing backwards and forwards as well as head swaying. Some of the birds also showed similar signs of ARB as well as self-plucking.

Aside of such circus like performance, often banned in the west, the park is nonetheless a pleasant walk through. It is also home to a large Buddhist temple which is accessed by crossing the bridge that...

A excellent local city park only £3.60pp for its many sights. It's a circular footpath around a lake filled with fauna and beauty spots for many photos. The very southern tip of the lake there's an actual elephant show where 3 to 4 elephants are bought out to explain their ecology, spray people with water who are to close to barriers n if u pay £4-8, you can feed them raw vegetables (I've been to another elephant themed place, at this local u can get very close to the trunks!). There are several timed dance/theatre like events at certain sites so u need to check the timetable. An Oct visit seemed ideal for the temperature, still hot but not overbearingly humid but it's past the end of flowering...

Nice park, very beautiful flowers and trees, lake, with cosy little resting places. We especially appreciated the tittle cottages, where you can sit with 4-6 people and have a table and a roof. Also we fed the fish, so many fish in that pond that they jumped over each other when feeding. That's worth to see. Boat hiring also possible and quite charming. We enjoyed elephant and birds show. We didn't had the impression the elephants where treat good, so one point deduction. The...