-- Sand as soft as a carpet of silver beach paved with a direct corridor to the sea, the smoke of the Weizhou Island wind blowing the sun, the sparkling Xingdao Lake boat breaking the waves, the Pearl Pond of the White Dragon City tells the pearl still Hepu of the ancient and vicissitudes of life. White clouds under the blue sky, open bosom of the sea next to the beach sprinkled with shell beads, netting in front of the house of the fisherwoman in the banana grove under the cover of the hidden ...... This is the Beihai, the southwest coast of the gorgeous paradise.
Beihai's biggest feature is a "sea" word, seawater, beaches, islands, seafood, marine treasures, marine forests, undersea coral, marine culture, beach marine sports, sea routes, constituting a "ten perfect" marine The tourism system.
Beihai Tourism Line Design: D1 Weizhou Island, D2 Weizhou Island → Silver Beach, D3 Xingdao Lake Tourist Area → Beibu Gulf Plaza → Beihai Ocean Window
D1:
Take the three buses to the Beihai International Passenger Terminal to take the island fast boat at 8:30 a.m. every day (trip: about 1.5 hours, fare: 120 yuan, 180 yuan for the first-class cabin, note: must pick a sunny day. (Note: must pick a good weather). Board the boat to Weizhou Island, the "Ponlai of the South". After choosing a good place to stay, stroll along the beach on the island, the forest is lush and verdant, the beach is white and stretches, bathing in the sea and picking up shells is quite fun. Lunch will be served at the pier.
In the afternoon, start the island style tour: tour of the South Bay Harbor, Dishui Danping, three grandmothers temple, wind wind ridge, piggyback ridge and other attractions, you can ride a bicycle tour (rent a bike for 15 yuan / day), on the island to listen to the song of the birds, and browse through the tropical plants of the whirling scenery. Take an early night rest and get up early the next day to watch the best view of the island.
D2: Early in the morning, in the Crocodile Hill Park, the best sun terrace to see the magnificent view of the sunrise over the sea, and enjoy the sun shining on the slanting island of the great beauty. Visible in the harbor blue sky and white clouds, seagulls soaring, fishing boats point, beautiful and wonderful. Then the morning hiking tour of fishermen's village, sea cucumber farms, Catholic Church, stone snail back, undersea coral area, you can experience the paradise of the boat-dwelling fishermen's life; you can also dive under the sea to see the underwater colorful ribbons or watch the sunrise right after renting a boat on the Xiyang Island to experience the primitive island like the mood of life.
Afternoon 15:30 by speedboat back to the city of Beihai, take the three-way bus to the Beihai Silver Beach. Accompanied by the Beihai's charming evening sunshine, strolling endless silver-like sandy beaches, but also can soak into the sea water to splash endless fun. Tired of dining at the boat-dwelling restaurant, don't forget to go to the beach park in the evening to enjoy Asia's largest musical sculpture fountain show.
D3: If you have enough time, you can stay in Beihai for one more day if you feel that you have not had enough fun in Beihai. In the morning go from the bus terminal to take the express bus to Hepu County tour "Water Margin" of the location base - Xingdao Lake.
In the afternoon, back to the city, go to the Beibu Gulf Plaza to enjoy Beihai's iconic building Beihai City Sculpture - "South Pearl Soul", and by the way to the nearby large shopping centers to buy local specialties, especially the authentic saltwater pearls - South Pearl (South Pearl Palace is the best choice). Nanzhu Palace is the best choice); then straight to the Beihai Ocean Window, enjoy the comprehensive marine museum in the high-tech to show you the marine scenery and sea creatures.
Beihai: Best Time to Visit
April to November is the best time to visit Beihai.
When you go to Beihai, don't miss the chance to have a close contact with the beautiful sea. the average annual temperature of the sea water from April to November is high enough for swimming, and during this period the sunshine is abundant, the sea water is warm, the sea breeze is refreshing and pleasant, and there are countless swimmers on the Silver Beach, which is a lot of fun. Weizhou Island is the best time to enjoy the sunrise, seascape, and swim on the island.
Tips: Beihai City experiences more rain from spring onwards, with sometimes cloudy and rainy weather, while summer is more humid and hot, with heavy to torrential rains, so you need to carry rain gear and moisture-proof clothes when you go out in these two seasons.
Transportation
1. Airport bus: 10 yuan each way, taking 30 minutes.
The frequency of buses from the airport to downtown depends on flights, and stops can be made to drop off passengers as needed. The bus terminal is located in front of Beihai Civil Aviation Building (Beibuwan West Road).
There are two regular buses from Civil Aviation Building to the airport at 5:00 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., while other buses depart 2 hours before the departure of airplane flights, and 1.5 hours before the departure of Beihai - Haikou flights, and go directly to the airport without stopping.
2, cab: taxi about 75 yuan.
Beihai Railway only opened Beihai - Nanning - Guilin round-trip train, generally to Beihai to choose the train, if you are the first to take the train to Nanning, and then transfer to Beihai, the trip is about three hours.
Beihai Railway Station is conveniently located on Beijing Road in the city center. There are not many train passengers in Beihai even on holidays, and train tickets can be bought basically on the go.
3, train station transportation:
You can take the No. 2 bus to the Beibuwan Plaza, passenger center and other major areas of the city.
Beihai: Shopping
The Beibu Gulf, which Beihai borders, is one of the four major fishing grounds along the coast of China, with more than 600 kinds of economic fish and more than 10 kinds of shrimps, making it rich in seafood. Among them, the flower ginseng from Weizhou Island is one of the eight treasures of Chinese seafood.
Beihai, the hometown of pearls, the south pearl famous. Pearl township has three treasures: pearl, sea cows, Dongyuan wine. Hepu production "Lianzhu" is "South Pearl" in the best.
In addition, Beihai is rich in subtropical fruits, vegetables and flowers, excellent varieties, loved by the people; Beihai shellfish carvings, horn carvings, bamboo handicrafts beautiful, people love; as one of China's fireworks and firecracker production bases, the colorful fireworks more dazzling.
Shopping places
The Beihai Commercial Center is located in the middle of Beibuwan Road.
Hoan Commercial Building, Qidong Mall, Xinli Shopping Plaza and RT-Mart are the four major shopping centers in Beihai, of which Hoan, Qidong and Xinli are all located near Beibuwan Plaza, and their business hours are usually from 9:30 am to 10:30 pm.
Beihai also has fixed shopping malls selling pearl jewelry as the main feature of the South Pearl Palace, Hengtong Jewelry, Dongya Jewelry, Wenbang Jewelry and so on.
Beihai Aquatic Market is a large wholesale and distribution market mainly for seawater pearls, seafood and local products, etc., which is concentrated on Yunnan North Road in Beihai.
In addition, stores line Beibuwan Road and Jiefang Road. Walking along the old street of Zhuhai Road and shopping along the stores is also a unique experience.
Special tips:
1, Beihai since ancient times is the hometown of the South Pearl, where the production of pearls have been known as the "West Pearl is not as good as the East Pearl, the East Pearl is not as good as the South Pearl," known as the pearl in the best. Tea Ting Road underwater world opposite the South Pearl Palace is the largest pearl state-owned franchise, located in Beibuwan Road.
2, in the shopping, need to pay attention to the second best goods, often very beautiful packaging, to you to see the outer layer is good, while the inside is inferior, the best to open the package when buying.
3, Beihai City Aquatic Market seafood products are good and inexpensive, buy some to take back to do is the best choice.
Beihai must go to the 2 attractions of the Silver Beach
Located in Beihai City, the southern seashore, about 6 kilometers away from the city, the east and west stretches for about 24 kilometers, the beach covers a total area of about 38 square kilometers, the sand on the beach is a fine quartz sand, in the sunshine, the white, fine sand
will be flooded with silver, so it is known as the Silver Beach. Here is an excellent natural beach bathing, long flat beach, sand white, water temperature net, wave soft, high negative oxygen ions, no sharks known to the world, the negative oxygen ions in the air is 50 to 1000 times the content of the big cities, is known as China's tourism "ace attractions", enjoy the "world's first beach The beach is also known as the "first beach under the sun".
Walking Silver Beach attractions are concentrated in the middle of the beach, in addition to having Asia's largest musical sculpture fountain - Beach Park, there are three sides of the sea, one end of the land connected to the Immortal Bridge and has a unique geographic location of the Three Guan Pavilions and so on. The dense pine forest around the San Guan Pavilion makes it even more majestic. Standing on the Three-Guanyuan Pavilion to watch the sunrise, watch the sea, watch the sea of forests, are excellent places to go.
Crown Ridge is located in the western end of Beihai City, 8 kilometers from the city, the ridge is 3 kilometers long, like a green dragon lying in the southwest end of the city,
By the main peak of the Wanglou Ridge (before the Qing Dynasty had set up the "Wanglou" on the top of the top, 120 meters above sea level) and the wind door ridge, bun ridge, Tianma Ridge and other mountain groups, the northeast extends to the south foot of the Shibu Ridge and stop, the same way to the submerged veins and the Shibu Ridge, the corner of the Ridge is connected. The whole mountain range is named after the shape of "dome like a crown". The main peak is 120 meters high, and you can watch the sunrise and sunset, ten thousand hectares of sea waves and the charming scenery of fishing fires at night. On the sea side, there are sea-eroded platforms and steep rocks, which are in different shapes and colors, making it an excellent place for sightseeing and photography in Beihai City. You can also dive under the sea to see the beautiful corals and the marvelous underwater world. In addition, there are beach chairs for rent along the beach, so you can lie on the beach until the sun goes down, soothing and refreshing.
Silver Beach Entertainment Tips
One, swimming notes:
1, to Silver Beach to play, swimming in the sea is certainly, it is best to bring a good swimsuit, goggles, swimming rings and other swimming equipment beforehand, if it is too much trouble, the Silver Beach near the many stalls selling or renting swimming gear, just the price is not cheap.
2, swimming, do not go to deep water and no lifeguard guard area, do not go too far away from the shore, once the wind and tide to go ashore immediately.
3, swimming away from the sea motorboats, pay attention to safety.
4, the beach is full of sunshine, but also very "poisonous", swimming after the skin is easy to sunburn peeling, to carry sunscreen skin care products, pay attention to protection.
6 kilometers from the center of the city Beibuwan Square.
1, the city can be reached by No. 3 bus.
2, take a taxi in the city to Silver Beach about 15 minutes, the cost of about 28 yuan, you can bargain. 3、Taking a motorcycle costs about 12 yuan.
Other:
1, Beihai Silver Beach Park has a battery car, you can go around the sea sightseeing tour, 10 yuan per person.
2, there are go-karts on the beach, there are single and double, the price is different in off-peak season, 50-80 yuan / 10 minutes.
Beach Park has a fast-food restaurants, in addition, Silver Beach near the side of the highway in a row of twenty or thirty consecutive seafood stores can choose at will. However, each seafood store has one or two people come up to the highway to greet you in, it is best to think about which one to go to, before striking up a conversation with them.
Weizhou Island
Weizhou Island is the largest island in Guangxi and the largest dead volcano island in China. The island of the waves, rocky holes deep, beautiful scenery, simple folk style, so known as the "big Penglai" fairy island called. This island is located in the southeast of the Beihai Peninsula 36 nautical miles, surrounded by sea, 65 kilometers long from south to north, 6 kilometers wide from east to west, the highest altitude of 79 meters.
Volcanic island is rich in landscape resources, there are volcanic lava landscape - piggyback ridge; as if probing into the sea of the "turtle rags arching Bie"; Zhu curtains hanging long "drip water Danping" drip water screen (drip water village) On the south bank, the original name is Dishui Rock. The upper part of the wall is covered with green trees, and water often overflows from the fissures between the layers on the wall, dripping down a little bit, such as the hanging curtains); there are also many reef caves shaped like seals and dolphins, seahorses and starfish, which can be described as a hundred beasts haunted the sea, such as Immortal Cave, Thief Cave, Sheep Cave; there is also a French Catholic Church located in the village of Shengtang, which is located in the end of the 19th century on the island, and the church building materials are all taken from the island's coral, rock, and after a century, the church remains strong; there is also a French Catholic Church located in Shengtang Village. The building materials of the church are all taken from the coral and rocks on the island, and after a hundred years, the church is still as solid as before. In addition, there are various recreational facilities on the island, making it an excellent place to explore the island, fishing, scavenging and diving. Weizhou Island is also the best place to see the panoramic view of the sun shining on Xiyang Island. You can also see the strange and beautiful colorful ribbons on the seabed under the sea water from Weizhou Island to Xiyang Island.
Tips:
1. The best way to visit Weizhou Island is to stay overnight, so that you can enjoy the charm of the rising sun and the fun of night time sea activities.
2. Be sure to pay attention to the weather forecast when you visit the island, as you will be forced to stay on the island for a few days if you can't sail due to weather or wind.
Recommended routes around the island:
A line: Turtle Rock Beach Park (ride up the steepest hill in the Beihai area)-Da Beach-Fisherman's Village-Sea Cucumber Farm-Catholic Church-Shiluo Back -Underwater coral area (diving) - Beasts haunting the sea
B line: Crocodile Hill Park to see the sunrise - tour of the crater ruins - Cave of the Immortals - dripping Danping - Sanwu Temple -Baofengling (the steepest hill in the Lower Beihai area)-Piggyling
Tips: It's best to contact a fisherman's house that will pick you up from the island (and provide you with food and lodging), so that you can be exempted from the fee for going to the island.
Transportation to the island
You can take the No. 3 bus to the Beihai International Ferry Terminal, and then take the 8:30 fast boat (trip: about 1.5 hours, fare: 120 yuan, 180 yuan for first class) or slow boat (trip: 3 hours, fare: 80 yuan, 90 yuan for first class) to get there. The boat returns from the island at 15:30 pm.
Transportation on the island
Transportation on Weizhou Island is by rental motorcycles and bicycles. A three-wheeled motorcycle tour of all the sights costs 20-40 RMB, or you can rent a bicycle at Piggy Bar for 15 RMB/day. There are also air-conditioned cars for rent, which cost about two to three hundred yuan for a one-day package.
Tips:
1. Boats are the only way to get to Weizhou Island, and there are very few flights, with 1-2 extra flights in the afternoon during peak season. It is best to buy a round-trip ticket in advance. Generally, the weather is good and there may only be fast boats, but in bad weather, fast boats are unable to go forward and there are only slow boats. In case of bad weather, the sea boat will stop running, so you must pay attention to the weather conditions when you go to the island.
2, sailing on the way to pay attention to the ship's safety signs, lifeboats, emergency door orientation, life jackets are generally under the seat, the ship will be prepared to plastic bags and prevent seasickness medication and so on.
3. The only way to get to Xiyang Island is by boat from the Weizhou Island Pier. A round trip on a speedboat with about 10 passengers costs about 500-600 RMB and takes about half an hour. A round trip on the island's fishermen's boat costs about two to three hundred dollars and takes about an hour or so. The average speedboat can't take more than 10 people, so be sure not to overload and wear a life jacket.
Dining:
Seafood is the main food on the island, and vegetables and meat are more expensive than seafood. Suggested to the market near the pier to buy favorite seafood to ask the people of the large stalls processing, processing fees are very cheap, the morning 7:00 or so fishermen unloading the boat when the seafood is the freshest, but also the most inexpensive. A few people eat down may also be less than 200 dollars.
Accommodation:
The overall accommodation on the island is average and inexpensive. There are some sprinkled hotels, ordinary inns and fishermen's hotels available.
1. Nanyou Hotel (Nanwan Street) and Penglai Hotel (at the highest point of Weizhou Island) are in relatively good condition and cost around 100 dollars.
2, fishermen's inns, the conditions are average, but the shopkeepers are warm and simple. Piggy bar (South Bay Street. 800 meters from the pier) atmosphere is good. Ander Inn (near the ticket office of the pier), Golden Bay Guest House. Prices range from a few dozen dollars.
Being on Weizhou Island is the greatest enjoyment of your trip to Beihai, as you can see the sunrise and sunset over the sea, explore the lava wonders and sea erosion left behind by the volcanic eruption of 10,000 years ago, and dive into the seabed to see the dazzling coral bushes.
We wish you a pleasant trip and have fun!