Fotuguan Park and the 'Train to Spring'

The wooded ridge-top park west of Eling where Line 2 runs along the cliff through nearly a thousand plum-blossom trees (美人梅) planted along the track by the district — for two or three weeks from late February the green monorail crosses a pink slope above the Jialing and the whole city comes to photograph it. The park is free and open, part of the half-mountain cliff trail; the blossom is the only reason to time a visit, and the timing is the whole trick: 2025 was at 70% on 21 February with 'about twenty days' to run (municipal government), 2026 at 80% on 23 February with 'about fifteen days' (district urban-management bureau, via local press). Outside the season it is a pleasant walk between Eling and Daping with the same trains and no crowd.