Jimu News reporter Ding Chen
Correspondents: Wang Yang, Zhong Shan, Gao Mengya
In the past 2024 New Year's Day holiday, Wuhan ranked among the top 10 popular tourist destinations in the country, among which, the East Lake Scenic Area, which is a popular tourist destination in Wuhan, also ushered in a peak of passenger flow. In January 2024, the popularity of East Lake will continue to be hot, and a number of new amusement projects will be launched in the scenic area, allowing the majority of citizens and tourists to meet in East Lake and enjoy the fun of winter.
East Lake "snowed" and experienced the world of ice and snow
As soon as winter arrives, the "snow play DNA" engraved in the bones of many tourists is quickly activated. Recently, there has been a phenomenon of "local snowfall" in Wuhan's East Lake, which has attracted many tourists to experience. Recently, a Jimu News reporter saw in the East Lake Moshan Scenic Area Xunguang Ice and Snow Egg Boy Island, the thick snow was shining under the sun, and many tourists had a lot of fun playing snowball fights, enjoying ice sculptures, and sitting on slides in the park.
It is understood that the newly opened Xunguang Ice and Snow Egg Island covers an area of 6,000 square meters, built near the lake, backed by Moshan Mountain, and adjacent to Chucheng. The whole is divided into two parts: an outdoor snow play area and an indoor ice sculpture area. Walking into the happy snow at the entrance, the reporter saw children holding various kinds of ski equipment, heartily having snowball fights, and some "big friends" were trying a variety of fun games such as snow bumper cars, snow frisbees, and ice dragon boats.
"It is said that the winter without playing in the snow is not complete, and it is rare that Wuhan has opened a playground for playing in the snow, and it must be rushed!" said Ms. Xiong, who came from Hankou, with a smile, "When I saw the new place to play in the snow in East Lake on the Internet, I immediately brought my children over to experience it. ”
According to the relevant staff on site, there are eight snow-themed games in the park to meet the imagination of Wuhan people in winter. In addition, in East Lake, "playing in the snow is just a basic operation". At the scene, there will be a random parade of egg boys wearing doll costumes, and under their guidance, visitors will be invited to participate in interactive activities, and visitors can draw exquisite gifts to take home for free.
It is reported that Xunguang Ice and Snow Egg Island will continue to be open until February 25, 2024, inviting tourists to enjoy the snow.
Watch the Lantern Festival of the Year of the Dragon and enjoy a visual feast
"Let's count down together, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" Accompanied by the excited countdown of tourists, the 12-meter wishing tree in Happy Valley was brightly lit, and in the sweet atmosphere created by snowflakes and music, the dream avenue turned into a sea of cheers. The Spring Festival is approaching, Wuhan East Lake Dragon Year Lantern Festival and Happy Valley Lantern Wishing Season has kicked off, with the theme of wishing to create a new concept lantern festival of Ambilight, bringing visitors a new scene fusion gameplay, tourists can also unlock wishing eggs when interacting with the new lantern group when enjoying the lanterns.
In 2024, the Wuhan East Lake Year of the Dragon Lantern Festival combines oriental aesthetic design and technological interactive experience, with the five major dragon lantern groups, the God of Wealth sending blessings to the day and the gold and other Zigong lanterns are magnificent, and the "Dragon Walking East Lake Flowers" lantern group shows the scene of the dragon traveling through the East Lake landscape, flowers and plants, and the 100-meter water lantern group "Dragon Touring the Lake" has a huge size, and the dragon enters the lake to "pick blessings" to swallow clouds and spit fog. Some tourists shouted their New Year's wishes loudly to the "Longteng Ming Lake" lantern group, and the "Shenlong" blinked its eyes and spit out clouds, its tail flashed and chased the light, and the fireworks flashed brightly. In addition, the 20-meter-high "Longmen Blessing" lantern group, the smiling God of Wealth "Rijin Doujin" lantern group sends blessings and congratulations on all the best; tourists can take a surprise photo with the deposit number when they touch the new media lantern group "Fortune Sticker"; in the "Butterfly Dream Maze", butterflies flap their wings and light and shadow jump like a galaxy flashing; "Flower Sea Thousand Lights" flashes with gorgeous light and shadow sunflower flowers bloom warmly, and many trendy lantern groups create a top-level romantic atmosphere, and tourists go to a light feast that heals the soul.
(Photo by Jimu News reporter Li Hui)
At the same time, there is also a stunning appearance of the "Colorful Wishing Night Parade", the national tide floats are full of colors, the underwater elves dance with light and shadow, the "Yu You Have a Happy Show" lively evening party is on stage, and the magic song and dance martial arts performances are staged one after another, presenting a visual feast for tourists.
Take a cruise on East Lake and taste "poetry and distance"
When people come to Wuhan, they must visit East Lake. As a one-stop "scenic spot" to visit the beautiful scenery on the lake, the East Lake cruise is also widely favored by tourists and friends as an important means of transportation to easily reach different scenic spots of the East Lake. In the past 2023, the annual tourist reception of East Lake cruise ships exceeded 1 million for the first time, setting a new record in history.
Early in the morning of January 6th, at the East Lake Chufeng Garden Wharf, the first cruise has not yet set sail, the wharf has passengers ready to board the ship, the clear lake surface is sparkling, from time to time there are a few birds flying by, this is from all over the world tourists yearn for "poetry and distance". "We are tourists from Hefei, taking advantage of the sunny weather today, to come to East Lake to experience the romantic atmosphere of the lake cruise. Ms. Chen, who was about to board the ship, said.
"In July 2023, we upgraded our ticketing and ticketing system to enable tourists to scan the QR code online to board the boat, which greatly shortened the queuing time of tourists on the boat. Xie Wubin, head of the East Lake Tourism Boat Division, told reporters that in the small program, tourists can easily buy tickets for East Lake cruises, East Lake Ocean Park, East Lake sightseeing helium balloons, East Lake sailing, East Lake Beach, East Lake Eye and other attractions.
It is reported that the applet integrates the major Internet celebrities in the East Lake Scenic Area to check in and ticket attractions, improve the quality of East Lake cultural tourism services through the smart cultural tourism platform, and provide tourists with a powerful channel to save time and effort, quickly understand East Lake, and facilitate ticket purchase, and has now become an exclusive tour guide for foreign tourists to visit East Lake for the first time.
"It's fun to be in the whole area. The relevant person in charge of Wuhan East Lake Cultural Tourism Group said that the cruise ship is the most important part of the East Lake water tourism, and it is also the water entertainment display project with the largest passenger flow and the richest cultural tourism content. Since 2023, East Lake Cultural Tourism has strived to bring a better experience to tourists across the country by launching a series of innovative measures such as smart cruise ships, improving infrastructure construction, and improving service quality. In the future, East Lake Cultural Tourism Group will continue to create more possibilities for tourists to play in East Lake, so that tourists can enjoy the beautiful East Lake.
(Except for the signature, all photos are provided by the correspondent)
(Source: Jimu News)
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