Discover Wuhu: Jiuzi, Jinghu Park and Fantawild

Wuhu offers several clearly distinct ways to explore the city: Jiuzi Ancient Town focuses on Huizhou-style buildings and merchant traditions. Wuhu Fantawild Resort brings together theme parks and other entertainment, while Jinghu Park consists of Great Jinghu and Small Jinghu. When planning your trip, you could first consider whether history, leisure activities or a lakeside park landscape interests you most.

Jiuzi Ancient Town: Buildings and Merchant Traditions

Jiuzi Ancient Town comprises 658 Huizhou-style buildings with a total of 4,288 rooms. These include 42 preserved buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, with 318 rooms. The figures distinguish the overall building stock from the specifically identified group of historic buildings. For anyone interested in architecture and historic buildings, this offers a tangible way to explore the site: the scale of the entire building stock is set alongside the smaller number of preserved structures from two dynasties.

Jiuzi Ancient Town is also guided by the vision of being a spiritual home for Huizhou merchants. To this end, the site brings together resources relating to Wuhu’s merchant tradition, history and intangible cultural heritage. So it is about more than buildings: it also encompasses tradition and cultural heritage. If you would like your trip to include architecture, history and intangible cultural heritage, Jiuzi offers several points of connection with these themes.

Fantawild: Leisure Activities with Different Focuses

Wuhu Fantawild Resort is classified as a national 5A-rated tourist attraction. It is a comprehensive leisure tourism resort featuring theme parks, hotels, dining and other entertainment options. This mix is especially important when choosing a focus for your trip: Fantawild offers a range of leisure activities in one place, while Jiuzi’s historic themes provide a different reason to explore Wuhu.

The resort includes Fantawild Water Park, which is divided into eight areas: a children’s area, a wave pool area, a funnel slide area, a family area, an interactive adventure water fortress, a speed slide area, a giant python slide area and a racing slide area. This layout gives a clear picture of the park’s different water attractions. If you are considering Fantawild, you can use these areas to see whether the wave pool, slides or adventure water fortress match your interests. The names also give a more specific impression of what is on offer than the general term “water park”.

Jinghu Park and Wuhu Ancient City

Jinghu Park is considered Wuhu’s oldest public park and consists of Great Jinghu and Small Jinghu. The two lakes are therefore an explicit part of the park’s description. For choosing the themes of your trip, Jinghu offers a different focus from Jiuzi’s merchant traditions or Fantawild’s leisure activities: here, the park and lakes take centre stage.

Wuhu Ancient City preserves a comprehensive historic layout with administrative, military, judicial, government, educational, religious, academic and commercial areas. Its restoration was not yet complete. The range of areas listed shows that the historic layout encompasses different functions and is not limited to a single theme.

When looking for a holiday rental in Wuhu, you could therefore start by sorting out your priorities: are you especially interested in merchant traditions and cultural heritage, Fantawild’s leisure activities, or Jinghu Park and its two lakes?

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