Situated in Xinglong Hot Spring City and surrounded by mountainous ambience, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is 97 kms away from downtown Sanya and 163 kms away from Haikou City. Covering 600 hectares, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is the first Tropical Botanical Garden open to visitors. Collecting more than 1,200 sorts of plants, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is regarded as a hot destination and furthermore dedicated to issues related to botany and environmental protection in cooperation with agricultural authorities in China. Featuring tropical monsoon climate all year round, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is suitable for tourism and thus evaluated as AAAA-class tourism spot and model of agricultural tourism.
As a multifunctional tropical botanical garden in many aspects (agricultural technology, processing research, environmental protection, and tourism), Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is operated and developed under the supervision of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture. With an investment of more than 0.15 billion RMB dollars, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden has grown out from nothing to be an ideal classroom introducing ecology. In assistance of Hainan Provincial Tourism Bureau, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden opened its initiation to tourism in 1997 botanically, ecologically, and agriculturally.
Featuring all sorts of plants, including coffee, pepper, cocoa, durians, mangosteen, Antiaris Toxicaria, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden domesticates tropical plants around the world and thus embodies a harmonious picture with plants. Besides, a canteen is accessible to provide visitors many sorts of beverages produced by the Garden itself. If you are a lover of coffee, cocoa, or herbal tea, you may purchase some or even referential souvenirs to keep track of Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden.