Attached is a three-day tour plan for Xiamen. There are many people on National Day, so whether you want to come or not should be carefully considered.
Route design: D 1 World Architecture Expo → Sunlight Rock → Xinzhuang Garden → Piano Museum → Beach around the island.
D2 Nanputuo Temple → Xiamen University → Hu Lishan Fort → Huandao Road Sightseeing Avenue
D3 Xiamen Haicang Bridge → Jimei Xue Cun → Aoyuan → Chen Jiageng's former residence
D 1: I boarded Gulangyu Island in the morning, where thousands of Chinese and foreign buildings with different styles and a combination of Chinese and western styles gathered. All the way to Sunlight Rock, the best scenic spot in Gulangyu Island, this is a boulder with a diameter of more than 40 meters, which can have a panoramic view of Xiamen. Then walk to Xinzhuang Garden and visit the world-class piano museum. Lunch will be settled in Longtou Road or a pleasant coffee garden on the island, and the afternoon will be spent in the bathing beach around the island.
D2: Visit Nanputuo Temple in the morning, burn incense and pray, and don't forget to taste the famous Nanputuo vegetarian food. Behind the temple is the Five Old Peaks, overlooking the mountain wind and waves. Then go to the Huli Mountain Fort not far away, where there are the largest and smallest cannons in the world today, and you can overlook the Golden Gate. At night, walk slowly along the roundabout road and watch the sunset on the sea. There are infinite scenery and many scenic spots along the way. Look at it and feel the unique charm of this seaside green corridor.
D3: Visit Haicang Bridge in the morning, which is called the Rainbow Bridge in Du Dong, and then go to Jimei School Village. This is not only the hometown of beautiful scenery in Zhong Ling, but also a scenic spot with all the beautiful scenery. If it coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival, you can also see the wonderful dragon boat race. After that, we visited the Olympic Garden and Chen Jiageng's former residence respectively.
One-day tour of Gulangyu Island
Features of the route: The coastline of the island twists and turns, and the natural bathing beach with gentle slope and fine sand is surrounded by wonderful rocks.
Route design: D 1 Hao Yueyuan → Yuyuan Garden → Xin Manor → Sunlight Rock → Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall → Xiamen Museum → Xiamen Underwater World.
In the morning, take the ferry about 10 minutes to Gulangyu Island, and then walk to Hao Yue Garden, where there is a huge granite statue of Zheng Chenggong. Starting from the Garden, I first went to Yuyuan Garden to commemorate Dr. Lin, a famous gynecologist in China, and then went to Longzhuang Garden to visit Gulangyu Piano Museum, which is the only world-class piano museum in China.
For lunch, you can eat seafood noodles, clams and sea melon seeds at the stalls on the island. Then it only takes 10 minutes to reach the famous Sunguangyan, which is the best scenic spot of Gulangyu Island and can have a panoramic view of Ludao. Here, you can also visit Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall and Bird Garden. Next, I went to Xiamen Museum and Xiamen Underwater World respectively.
When you stay in Xiamen, you must experience the sea rhyme. It is recommended to stay in Gulangyu or a hotel near the sea. Hotels range from two to four stars, and prices range from 120-3000. The May Day, the Eleventh Day and the Spring Festival in Xiamen are peak seasons, and the rooms are quite tight.
Hotels in Xiamen will be more expensive if they stay directly. It is recommended to book a room at a large-scale reservation website with good reputation, which is generally 2~7 fold lower than the retail price.
Diet Xiamen gourmet
Xiamen cuisine, which is famous for its freshness, crispness and crispness, attaches great importance to the cooking of seafood and the preparation of soup materials, just like most areas along the southern coast of China. Xiamen, near the sea, has its seafood. The famous dish "Ginger Duck" is a top-grade soup made of more than a dozen Chinese medicines. Besides China cuisine, frozen bamboo shoots, satay noodles and peanut soup are all local specialties.
The core of Xiamen cuisine is the four treasures of seafood: crab, shrimp, fish and shellfish, with Minnan flavor as the main body, and Taiwan Province and Chaoshan flavors as well. On the basis of the inheritance of Fujian cuisine, we learn from others, abandon the rough and greasy taste, take the fresh and fragrant taste, steam, stir-fry, fry, stew, stir-fry and stir-fry. And other techniques, paying attention to the five elements of color, aroma, taste, shape and quality, creatively exerting the characteristics of fresh, light, tender, mellow and slightly spicy, and producing hundreds of delicious dishes, which won many awards in previous national cooking competitions and won high praise from the national cooking community.
Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island: It is the most important shopping and food street on Gulangyu Island. There are many small shops on the island, where the famous "Four Famous Foods" and other special foods are concentrated.
Shopping in Xiamen not only has charming and beautiful scenery, but also gathers rich and precious products, such as Xiamen pie, Huang Shengji pork floss and so on. There are many famous shopping malls in Xiamen, including various household appliances, high fashion, gold and silver jade articles, jewelry, craft treasures, antique calligraphy and painting, etc. Some specialty shops, street stalls, night markets and cheap supermarkets will also bring you unexpected surprises.
Main commercial streets and shopping centers in Xiamen
Zhongshan Road
Zhongshan Road, with the title of "Top Ten Famous Streets in China", is a traditional bustling business district in Xiamen. There are hundreds of shopping malls along the street, and there are many commodities, which are spectacular. Among them, Hualian Building, Huahui Shopping Mall, Paris Spring Siming Store and Jinlu Jewelry are the larger ones. The architectural shapes on Zhongshan Road are different, and the European architectural style is skillfully combined with the characteristics of coastal cities to make it interesting.
This century-old street is the only commercial street in Xiamen that leads directly to the sea. You can also enjoy the scenery of Gulangyu Island after shopping. Several streets adjacent to Zhongshan Road, such as Siming South Road, Siming North Road, Siming West Road, Siming East Road and Jukou Street, are also good places for shopping. You can go shopping by the way.
Transportation: You can take No.2, No.3, No.4, 10, 12, No.23, No.25, No.27, No.30, No.32, No.8 double-decker buses and private small and medium-sized buses.
Gulangyu Longtou Road
Longtou Road is the main commercial street of Gulangyu Island and the only way for tourists to visit the island. There are many handicraft shops and calligraphy and painting shops on both sides of the street, that is, there are local handicrafts such as pearl embroidery, lacquer line carving, colored ties, colored plastics and colored porcelain. , as well as antiques, jade, calligraphy and painting and porcelain from all over the country. At the same time, many dry goods stores in South China have been opened, which are more suitable for tourists to buy and bring back to relatives and friends.
Transportation: Xiamen Ferry Terminal ferries ashore.