Xiamen is a super powerful modern city located in the southeastern coastal area. It has the world-famous Gulangyu Island and Xiamen University. It has a comfortable environment, a developed economy, and a rich cultural atmosphere. This is Xiamen’s only magic weapon to attract many tourists every year. Let’s share with you

Xiamen 4 days and 3 nights free travel guide for parents and children.

I used to resist short-term travel and always wanted to stay in one place for ten days and a half. I thought that in this way I could have a more in-depth understanding of the local customs, culture and history, so almost every trip I took before

It is more than ten days.

However, after having a child, my time was divided into seven parts, and I haven't traveled in three years.

Seeing that there was an opportunity to go to Xiamen, although it only took four days to go back and forth, for a mother who worked full-time, this time was also very precious, so I decided happily: Let’s go! And take the whole family with me.

Get up! Xiamen Family Travel Guide Before going there, I wanted to make a good guide. Who knew that I had been very busy at work and was working overtime before leaving, so I was a little more casual about the itinerary (actually: no arrangements...) everything was

Will decide when we arrive.

This is very inconsistent with my previous personality.

Every time I traveled before, I made a lot of plans in advance. I always checked what I wanted to go to first, and I tried my best to bring everything with me when I went out, as if this would make me feel more at ease.

Perhaps it’s because I’ve spent more time with my children, and my ability to discover the beautiful little things around me has become stronger, and my ability to accept uncertainty has also increased. Therefore, traveling without a guide makes me feel more relaxed.

Or maybe it’s because of the increase in travel times and experience that I realize that the guide can never be exhaustive, and the most impressive things in each trip are actually outside the guide.

It should also be attributed to the fact that various APPs are so powerful now. Maps, food, hotels, air tickets, taxis, and payments are all very convenient as long as you bring your mobile phone (and power bank). Traveling with children has also become very simple.

Getting to know myself, spending time with my family, making friends, seeing a wider world, and understanding more lifestyle possibilities may be the meaning of my travel.

Air tickets and hotel tickets: We started from Beijing. It may be due to the wind direction. It takes 3 hours and 5 minutes to fly from Beijing to Xiamen, while it only takes 2 hours and 55 minutes to fly from Xiamen to Beijing.

Since I only had 4 days to stay in one city, I chose to take a flight in the morning and a flight back in the evening, so that I could spend as much time in Xiamen as possible.

November is not considered the peak season in Xiamen. You can basically buy a round-trip air ticket with a 50% discount one month in advance. The per capita price is 1,600, which is quite worth it.

We were lucky. There were no delays on both flights. The outbound flight was the first flight and the return flight was Hainan Airlines.

I would like to remind those traveling with children that China Capital Airlines allows children to check in via mobile phone. Hainan Airlines does not support this and can only check in on site (but Hainan Airlines has reserved a front row seat, which is very considerate.) In addition, Hainan Airlines is an unexpected bonus!

The plane is very new, the stewardess is very nice, and the service is very considerate ~ praise, praise, praise ~ Hotel: Hotels here are generally cheaper. We booked a four-star hotel in Huli District. The standard room including double breakfast is only 358/night, and it is 100 meters away.

It's right in the food stall gathering area, and there's a supermarket just 800 meters away for shopping, which is very convenient.

It is less than 10 kilometers from the airport and it is also very convenient to take a taxi.

First impression of Xiamen It was the first time I really saw Xiamen on the plane.

It was a bit overcast that day. Like other islands, the sky in Xiamen looked low, the sea was quite wide, there were many ships sailing, and the docks were full of containers and tower cranes; on the land, in addition to the common buildings in the mainland, there were also

Rooftop green spaces are uncommon in the north, as well as many beautiful red-roofed houses.

Such red houses were later seen in Xiamen University and Gulangyu Island.

After checking the information, I discovered that the red roof I saw was actually red brick, which is an important representative of southern Fujian architectural culture and has profound historical origins and cultural heritage.

People say: "The red bricks and white stones are curved with double slopes, the bricks are out of the stone and the stone is swallow-tailed ridge, and the carved beams and painted buildings are like a palace."

At present, red brick buildings in southern Fujian are mainly distributed in Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and other places in Fujian Province, with the highest concentration in Kinmen in Taiwan.

For this reason, mainland China and Taiwan are jointly applying for UNESCO World Heritage status.

After getting off the plane, I took a taxi smoothly (I woke up too early in the morning and my children fell asleep before getting off the plane, so I could finally enjoy the city in peace).

Looking around, the viaducts and both sides of the city roads are all green, dotted with the green of various flowers.

There are many tall bougainvilleas (generally planted in pots in the north), while Xiamen is planted as a trail tree.

At that time, I guessed that the bougainvillea was the city flower of Xiamen? I looked it up and found that it was indeed the case! The bougainvillea in full bloom is the city flower of Xiamen! When I was a child, my family had a friend from Fujian who went to the mainland to do business, but the local accent was always there.

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