Villas in Mount Mogan National Park, Zhejiang, China

DICUI Pool. The Chinese name is given to describe the vivid green color of the water, and the plants around.

A closer look at the rock face with carved handwriting in Chinese, "Green".

SONGYUE LU, the house rounded by pine trees. It is built in 1933, President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China(ROC), and his wife, First lady Soong May-ling spent their honeymoon here in 1927.

Another building just beside SONGYUE LU. Late in 1948, a lot of important political meetings and decisions of ROC were made here in 1948, just before the end of the civil war.

House with red maple leaves in the garden. Houses here are most of European style, partly because foreign missionaries, businessmen, customs officials set up summer homes here from 1880s.

The beautiful garden from another angle, in a rainy autumn day.

Most of the foreigners came here in early 1910s are Americans and British. Many of these villas and houses are still standing, with some being turned into hotels and guesthouses operating today.

The doorway, seems a perfect place for some afternoon tea in summer.

Wandering around.

Route and stairs between houses, note the European style decorations everywhere.

Guesthouses nowdays. In summer, there should be quite a few tourists here, leaving the hot and noisy cities behind.

Tall camellia trees in the garden.

This one is used as coffee house.

The floor of the garden is stil in quite good shape.

Stairs to the past. ;-)