Grand View Pavilion(Chinese:大观楼；Pinyin: Dàguānlóu) lies near the Dianchi Lake about 3 kilometers away from west of Kunming City.
It has the title "the water pavilion with cloud and mountain" because it accompanied with the Dianchi Lake and the Taihua Mountain. During to the Grand View Pavilion, the garden nearby gets the name of "Grand View Garden".

The fame of the Grand View Pavilion is not only for its charming scenery, but for also the world longest ancient antithetical couplet. Whoever visited the Grand View Pavilion and saw this couplet is all appreciated the content of the script.

Nowadays the Grand View Garden is the most graceful garden in Kunming. The main construction of the garden is the Grand View Pavilion. After renovated for successive dynasties, it becomes remarkably magnificent.

Including the Grand View Pavilion, there are the wonderful "Lansheng Pavilion", the zigzag corridor of "Huaigu, "Cuigeng Gate", and "Mumeng Pavilion" next to water and flowers. It will bring you the feeling like - a poem replete with picture image. The flowers and the trees surrounded "The Yongyue Pavilion" and "the Guanjia Hall".