• Menlun Botanical Garden 

	The Menlun Botanical Garden , covering 130 hectares on the Hulu Island on the Luosuo River , and situated 95 kilometers to the northwest of mengla County , is the site of the Yunnan Provincial Tropical Plant Research Institute . More than 3000 varieties of tropical cash plants , wild plants and ornamental plants are grown in the park 12 special zones , 1700 of them are native tropical plants , including Maytenus horkeri , a precious tree whose leaves can be used to treat cancer patients . In the dense forests there are experimental affore station centres . The space of the garden is divided into five layers to make room for
	a rich varity of plants growing in different spaces . Having achieved more than 120 periodical results in the development , utlization , domestication and planting of plants , the garden has become China centre for the study of tropical plants , it has one of the world few collections of tropical and subtropical plants from different parts of the globe . It is also a popular tourist resort .

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•  Ganlan(oliver ) Sandbar
  
  

  	Known in the language of the Dai people as Menghan , the Ganlan Sandbar on the Lancang River is a world famous peacock tail “ , meaning the most beautiful part of xishuangbanna .Trip to Xishuangbanna is complete without a visit to Ganlan Sandbar “ , as the popular saying goes . Situated at the end of a 37-kilometers trip down the Lancang River from Jinghong , and covering an area of 50 square kilometers at an altitude of 530 meters ( the lowest
  	point of Xishuangbanna ) , the Ganlan(Olive ) Sandbar derives its name from the fact that it is forever clothed in greenery and that it takes the shape of an olive . A total of 64 Dai-inhbited villages are found on the sandbar ,and bamboo abodes gleam in the verdure of coconut trees , with water flowing past them all the year round , and flowers in full bloom in all four seasons , synonymous to the Dai people dwellings . The Ganlan Sandbar , its tropical landscape looking sylvan in the ethnic Dai tradition , evinces an air of classic sanctity and natural repose .

  
  
  

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• Octagonal Pagoda 
  
  

  	Under the guise of different names , the Octagonal Pagoda is the most famous architectural site in xishuangbanna  . It stands on a man-made hill 14 kilometres ( 8 miles ) west of Menghai , just off the main road , near Jingzhen Village ; it is also known as Jingzhen Pagoda ( Jingzhenta )  The story of the temple's construction revolves around two pious locals who wanted simultaneously to honour the Buddha and put an end to atyranny of marauding wasps . Between the years 1698-1701 they supervised the construction of wasp-displacing hill , built the temple and encouraged religious gatherings .

  
  

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