Gulangyu Island Travel Tips

Gulangyu is a beautiful island in the west of Xiamen, about 700 meters across the sea, with an area of only 1.71 square kilometers. You can walk around the island in just over an hour. On this small island, covered with shade and fragrant flowers, it can be said that everywhere is like a park, and all the sights are beautiful.

The sea garden is less than a five-minute ferry ride from Xiamen. The pier building on the island is shaped like a piano. It's a beautifully imaginative idea. In this island, is not allowed to horse and carriage traffic, so you can not hear the noise of horse and carriage, but can always hear the melodious sound of the piano. Many residents on the island have pianos, and the melodious sound of the piano enhances the charm of the island. Therefore, Gulangyu is also known as the "Island of Music". The shape of the island's wharf buildings is one of the characteristics of the island.

The best way to get around Gulangyu is to walk around on your own, rather than taking a tour bus. To the alleys to drill, the island's most charming, the most distinctive is that a highly distinctive building. Gulangyu Island used to be a public **** concession, there are many countries on the island to establish a consulate, so Gulangyu Island has a "universal architectural exposition garden" title, these buildings manor villas, or lonely closed, or has been used for other purposes, there are some decadent, there are some mysterious, to people quietly talk about history. On the island will have come up to ask for you to lead the way as a tour guide for the locals, you can let it take you to walk Gulangyu Island, or not for the first time on the island, those alleys will make you dizzy, can not find the target, Xiamen people have a high quality of travel is very civilized, there will be no other places of tourism as the phenomenon of forced sale of the dead pester, which makes people feel very comfortable.

The island's tourist attraction is Sunstone, and the ticket is the most expensive. The publicity slogan is "not to have been to the sunrock, equal to have never been to Xiamen", is the highest point of Gulangyu Island, in the sunrock on top of the rental binoculars for tourists to look at the island of Kinmen. In fact, Sunlight Rock is just a bare rock, the bugs think there is no need to go, in Xiamen Island Ring Road you can find the nearest place to the island of Kinmen, the weather is clear with binoculars to see the effect should be better.

In the southwest corner of Gulangyu Island, there is a unique garden building - Peas Farm Garden. It is also home to the Piano Museum, and the admission fee is 30 yuan. This garden covers an area of less than ten acres, but it is adjacent to the sea, the garden built on the sea, the sea in the garden, the garden decorated with the sea, to the sea to expand the garden, all in one, the tourists feel that the scale of the garden is not small. The master of the garden name Lin Shu Zang, he built a garden here in 1913, intentionally imitated & lt; & lt; Dream of Red Mansions & gt; & gt; Grand View Garden in the residence of Jia Baoyu Yihongyuan, the garden is divided into Zang Hai Yuan and fill the two parts of the mountain garden, each made five scenes. From the garden door in, a yellow wall blocked the sight of visitors. As far as the view goes is a small courtyard with a flower bed arranged with potted flowers. Only when you go out from the Meishoudang on the right or the archway on the left, the vast sea suddenly appears in front of you. This is the meaning of "Zanghai Garden", that is to say, let the sea want to reveal before hiding. This is a common technique used in China's garden architecture. Piano Museum is divided into two buildings, hidden manor owners collect more than eighty precious piano around the world, the owner of Mr. Lin and his family now live in Canada, the manor has been donated to the country.

Gulangyu has no big roads, only asphalt roads or stone paths built along the mountains, clean as a wash. On both sides of the path are green trees, flowers and all kinds of architectural buildings. There are big banyan trees that take three people to embrace, Milan grows taller than a man, flowers bloom in all seasons, and the quiet and beautiful environment makes visitors feel pleasing to the eye.

Lunch at noon in the alley in the small restaurant to eat lunch, the boss recommended the fish ball soup is very good, fish balls are particularly fresh and memorable. Unfortunately, there was a class reunion in the evening, and I didn't get to enjoy the nighttime pearl-like beauty of Gulangyu and the open-air concert in the evening.

Gulangyu Island, whether it is its superior natural conditions, or people to decorate it, dress up, it is worthy of the title of "garden on the sea"

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