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As a unique state-level tourist resort, Yalong Bay is characterized by its tropical ambiance. It covers an area of 18.6 square kilometers and is a combination of seaside parks, deluxe villas, conference centers, top hotels, holiday villages, marine world, water activity center, golf-courses, yacht clubs and so on.
Yalong Bay possesses the five essential elements of modern tourist resource-sea, sands, sunshine, green plants and fresh air. The area is of a distinguished tropical marine climate with an anual average temperature of 25.5 centigrade degree. The lowest temperature of the region in the water is 22 centigrade degree in winter, a great convenience for all kinds of water activities. Its 66 square kilometers water area can hold hundreds of thousands of visitors swimming and playing in the water. The water here is crystally clear and the 10 meters undersea sights are clearly visible.
The butterfly valley is located in the north of Yalong Bay Tourism Zone. Entering the Hudielianhua (which means that the butterfly loves flowers) Exhibition House in a butterfly shape, you can see in five exhibition rooms not only the most precious butterflies in China like the Teinopalpus aureus, Bbutanitis Atkinson but also the world famous butterflies, such as Ornlthoptera goliath Oberth, Brassolidae, Chaetodon bennetti, Morpho cissls Feld and so on, which make you be struck with admiration. Outside the Exhibition House is a large-scaled butterfly garden built with net and made good use of the tropical plants and environment. In the garden grow the characteristic old bush rope in the tropical zone, the fancy and graceful banyan, the famous Dragontree, Lannea and so on, all of which give you a sense of warm and fragrant reflecting in the wild flowers and artificial flowers and accompanying by the running water through the valley and flying butterflies. The wonderful scene is so enchanted as to make tourists forget about home.
Tips：
1. You are advised to stay in a hotel with good equipments and service, so that you can enjoy quietly the life at the seashore for some days.
2. Before diving, you should check the index guage on the oxygen container which will determine the time you can stay in the water.
