Luohu District

Photograph by Brent Deverman

Petrified Trees have been shipped to Shenzhen China's Fairy Lake Botanical Garden to make the world's largest Petrified Forest. A great place to have a Jurassic family picnic. Dress like the Flintstones for maximum fun.

Built in 1997, the forest covers 20,000 square metres (4.94 acres) with a variety of 500 Coniferopsida woods from Liaoning, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. These fossil trees came to being in the Mesozoic era (150 to 70 million years ago). Read more »