InterContinental Changsha

Early in the morning, you might go to Kaifu temple nearby the hotel. As a buddhist temple located in Kaifu District, Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. It includes Entrance, Hall of the Great Heroes, Assisted dnyana, Dining Room, etc. Kaifu Temple belongs to the Yangqi and Rinzai schools of buddhism. The temple is built within a 16,000 square metres area of land.

In the afternoon, you may pay a visit to Yuelu Mountain, which lies in the west bank of Xiang River in Changsha City. The landscape is mainly composed of Lushan Mountain and the nearby rivers, ponds, plants and animals gardens and personnel landscape. Here the climate is warm and comfortable. The main peak in 300 meters high. In the landscape there are several thousand kinds of plants, among which there are a lot of famous and rare plants such as privet, ginkgo, camphor, spinulose tree, quassia, sweet gum, Chinese honeylocustbladder catchfly. Besides, there are a lot of famous and rare birds and animals such as babbler, loriot, cuckoo, owl, woodpecker, parrot and fox, goat, pheasant. Yuelu Mountain is one of Eight Attractions in Xiaoxiang.

In the evening, take a stroll at Changsha’s most famous commercial pedestrianised shopping street, Huang Xing Lu. is also one of the oldest commercial streets in the area, although you wouldn’t know it to look at, with its endless parades of brand-name shops, restaurant chains, KTV bars, and the usual commercial dross you can find anywhere in China. It’s popular amongst locals who like to chill and presumably watch the ‘outsiders’ coming here to splurge all their newly acquired wealth on meaningless tat. The street is approximately 830m long, and about 24m wide, which is good to know if you ever need to stage a 12-legged 830 metre sprint along the street: though you couldn’t even if you wanted to due to the hideously rendered bronze ‘cultural’ statues and plants that would block the way.