Butterfly Spring

The Butterfly Spring lies in the green trees at the foot of Yunnong Peak of Cangshan Mountain. The Spring is 24 kilometers away from the Ancient City of Dali. It is a square spring pond. The water in the pond is clear like a mirror. Around the pond stand marble balusters. The Chinese characters of the name Butterfly Spring have been inscribed by the famous Chinese contemporary intellectual Guo Moruo.

Above the Butterfly Spring covers the dense crown of two strong bent Silktree Albizzia which are about hundred years old. In the third and fourth month of every lunar year, all kinds of flowers on the Yunnong Peak are in bloom. The big Silktree Albizzia by the Spring give off a faint fragrant scent. The great scent has a great attraction towards butterflies; so thousands of butterflies fly here from all directions and flutter all around the Butterfly Spring. Some of the butterflies are as big as a palm, and some are as small as a copper coin. The butterflies are of different colours: yellow, red, white, and so on. There are more than one hundred kinds of butterflies flying here. Many of them may even connect with each other by head and tail, and hang from the big Silktree Albizzia to the water surface. The sight is so magnificent and wonderful that people call it "the Party for Butterflies"

In the Park of Butterfly Spring there is a Butterfly Museum. In the Museum keep many rare specimens of butterflies. In addition, there are also Butterfly Pavilion and Butterfly Stele. Climb up to the mountainside, you can enjoy the beautiful sights of Erhai Lake from the Sea Watching Pavilion.

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