I managed to catch a glimpse of the International horticultural exposition Xi’an China 2011 before its closure tonight.

2011西安世园会园区总面积418公顷，其中水域面积188公顷；标志性建筑有长安塔、创意馆、自然馆和广运门；主题园艺景点分别为长安花谷、五彩终南、丝路花雨、海外大观和灞上彩虹；并设有灞上人家、椰风水岸和欧陆风情三处特色服务区；同时将设置展示来自国内外的精美艺术品、雕塑以及珍禽、珍稀动物等，将让人们充分领略园林、园艺、建筑、艺术之美.

From the offical report, this is a huge landscape to be built upon for a period of about 3 years despite 1/3 of the site is the existing lake. 

Most buildings are spectacular for its temporarily status especially the night scene when lited with lighting feacture.  The pavilion was almost unreachable due to the large crowd till the very last day.  I hope they would be conserved so that I could visit them later.

I manage to visit the natural pavilion which is quite similar to taiwan’ expo last year but was smaller and less variety of species.

The hardscape or the hardware are definitely commendable but not the ’software’.  The scale of the  expo was huge but it appeared to be a huge theme park without much attention given to the theme of horticulture. 

This could not be comparable to shanghai world expo but it was tremendouos effort by a second tier city.

And I like the Mascot which is the cute and simple little pomegranate.

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