Nature Education Centre Sai Kung Hong Kong April 2010 - 27 photos - 894 views

Comprising of 34 hectares of land, Lions Nature Education Centre has wide selection of attractive fields and outdoor display areas, such as an insectarium, dragonfly pond, a shell house, a field of crops, medicinal herbal garden, an arboretum and a rock and mineral garden. All for which are for public education, recreational activities, nature conservation and scientific studies.  
 
There is a Shell House with a comprehensive display of local and overseas shells. Some of them are with rich color and elaborated shape. There is also a field crop where crops of the season are grown there. These include legumes, aquatic crops, chinese radish, onion, chive and leek, roots and tubers and quick-growing vegetables. We actually bought some to bring home that day. In the herbal garden, there are over 100 kinds of Chinese herbs are displayed, they are mainly herbal plant collected locally for research and educational purposes.