Features of the route: It covers most scenic spots in Guangzhou, where you can feel the historical and cultural atmosphere and fresh urban environment of Huacheng.
Route design: D 1 Zhongshan Memorial Hall → Guangdong Provincial Museum → Liu Rong Temple.
D2 Baiyun Mountain → Yuntai Garden
traffic
Arrival and departure
Guangzhou New Baiyun International Airport was officially put into use on August 5, 2004, and the original Baiyun Airport was closed at the same time. The new airport is located at the junction of Renhe Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou and Xinhua Town, Huadu District in the east. It is 0/7km away from the original Baiyun Airport/KLOC-and 28km away from Guangzhou downtown (Haizhu Square). If you choose to take a taxi to the city center, it is generally around 100 yuan, and it takes 15 minutes to take the expressway.
The new Baiyun Airport opened a round-trip route to Zhuhai and added a charter service to Dongguan. Passengers can buy tickets at the counters of Gate 7 in Area A and Gate B 10 in the arrival hall of the airport.
Local call
Guangzhou subway system is perfect. At present, Line 1, Line 2, Line 3 and Line 4 (partially) have been opened, which basically covers the main location of the urban area, making it very convenient for tourists to travel. Another 3 lines are under construction, and it is estimated that 9 lines will be put into operation by the opening of the 20 10 Asian Games.
Due to the large distance between stations of Metro Lines 3 and 4, the pricing method of Guangzhou Metro is changed from sub-station calculation to mileage calculation. The standards are as follows: 2 yuan within 4 kilometers from the start; Within the range of 4 to 12km, increase 1 yuan for every 4km; 12 to 24 kilometers, every 6 kilometers will be charged 1 yuan; After 24 kilometers, each additional 8 kilometers will increase by 1 yuan. For example, there are 4 stops from gongyuanqian station to Huangsha Station, but the price is still 2 yuan. For example, there are two stops from Jinzhou Station to Huangge Station, but the price is 3 yuan.
Metro 1 Line runs from guangzhou east railway station to Xilang, with a total length of18.48km, and there are 16 stations in the whole line.
Subway Line 2 runs from Jiangxia in Baiyun District to Pazhou in Haizhu District, and from Pazhou Station to Wanshengwei Station, and the fare is also "segmented charge".
The main line of Metro Line 3 runs from guangzhou east railway station to Panyu Square, and the branch line runs from Tianhe Passenger Station to Sports West. At present, only the first section from Kecun to East Railway Station has been opened, and the fares are charged in sections.
Metro Line 4 (part of it) is the special line of the University Town. At present, there are only five stations: Wanshengwei, Guanzhou, Beiting, Nanting and Xinjian. Fares follow the mode of "charging by sections".
The subway operation time starts at about 6: 00 in the morning and ends at about 1 1 in the evening.
Diet introduces local diet.
Guangdong cuisine, represented by Guangzhou cuisine, combines the advantages of excellent folk cuisines and western recipes in our province. Guangzhou cuisine has a wide range of materials, fine selection of materials, superb skills, good at change and diverse varieties. 1956 "Guangzhou Famous Cuisine Exhibition" introduced 5447 Lai products. There are 8 15 snacks related to vegetables and hundreds of snacks. Guangzhou cuisine is the main body and representative of Cantonese cuisine. There are as many as twenty-one cooking methods of Guangzhou cuisine, especially frying, frying, stewing, frying, stewing and buckling. The cooked dishes pay attention to color, fragrance, taste and shape. The taste is mainly fresh, tender and crisp, paying attention to clear but not light, fresh but not vulgar, tender but not raw, oily but not greasy. Strong seasonality, light in summer and autumn, heavy in winter and spring. The common dishes in Guangzhou are boiled chicken, boiled shrimp, open-hearth suckling pig, roast duck, snake soup, oil-soaked shrimp, braised skirt wings, steamed seafood, shrimp and so on.
Characteristic food
Guiling cream double skin milk Guangzhou people are afraid of getting angry, so they like Guiling cream best. Guiling paste made by Guangzhou people is brown and gelatinous. Is the shape of the container, a small bowl, a small bowl. After adding honey, it looks crystal clear, sweet in mouth and bitter in aftertaste. It is said that the bitter the better, it can clear away heat and reduce fire, and it is advisable to eat more.
Nanxin double skin milk is the signature food of Nanxin milk dessert shop. The boiled milk is double solidified, white in color, pasty, semi-solid, bright and smooth, and the milk skin does not leave the bowl. Sweet, fragrant, soft and smooth, rich in nutrition, and has the effect of moistening lung and caring skin.
Accommodation in Guangzhou is convenient and expensive, and the mid-range is generally in 200 yuan/day. However, there are many accommodation options in Guangzhou, from high-end star hotels to low-end guest houses and youth job-seeking hostels, which can be flexibly mastered according to individual requirements.
Whether it is a first-class five-star hotel or a clean and hygienic ordinary accommodation place, there are hundreds of star-rated hotels and hotels in Guangzhou.
Huanshi East Road is the most concentrated area of hotels in Guangzhou. Four or five-star hotels are mostly concentrated here. At night, the hotel is brightly lit, forming a beautiful scenery. There are many resort hotels near Baiyun Mountain, at the foot of Baiyun Mountain and by the Pearl River. Hotels near mountains and rivers, with natural and elegant environment, are a good place to stay away from the city for leisure and vacation. Shopping and gluttony in Guangzhou during the day and relaxing in the suburbs at night are naturally the most ideal choices. In addition, of course, there are many medium-grade hotels and guesthouses with reasonable prices, which can meet the needs of the public.
Shopping local shopping introduction
Guangzhou is not only the world of wholesale markets, but also the world of small stalls and shops. As a modern city, Guangzhou has many luxurious shopping centers. Tianhe Square in the new city is the proudest shopping center for local people, which integrates shopping, rest, entertainment and catering, providing a good shopping environment. The nearby CITIC Plaza is also the first choice for high-end shopping.
In Guangzhou, when you go out of the street, you will find one shop after another, one shop after another, lined up in a city, thus forming many commercial streets with their own characteristics:
Yide Road is a famous street of dried seafood. The railway station and the cotton market in Gaudi Street are places where clothing wholesalers gather. Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, Beijing Road Pedestrian Street and Shifu Road Pedestrian Street are bustling civilian shopping streets. Hualin Temple Jade Street specializes in jade, sour branches and mahogany furniture; There are antiques, old books, flowers, birds, fish and insects in Wenhua Street, Wende Road. Go to Hai Yin Electrical Appliance City to buy electrical appliances; Go to the Hai Yin fabric market to buy fabrics ... and visit a "street". You can shop around among the bustling crowd and the quaint arcades, but you can also blend into the street culture of Guangzhou and really experience the fun of shopping.
Transportation: Take bus No.244, 19 1,10 and get off at Jiefang South Road.
Of course, when shopping in Guangzhou, don't forget some special products of Guangzhou. Fresh tropical fruits, herbal tea, soup, Guangdong embroidery, Guang Cai, Guangdong carving and Lingnan bonsai are all famous local specialties in Guangzhou.
Characteristic goods
Mango Mango enjoys the reputation of "king of tropical fruits". The fruit is spherical or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow. The pulp juice is sweet and can be eaten fresh or made into preserved fruit and squeezed into mango juice. "Xiamao Xiangmang" produced in Xiamao Village, Shijing Town, Baiyun District is a kind of high-quality mango which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.
Activities introduce local activities
Entertainment places abound in Guangzhou, and all kinds of entertainment activities are available. Table tennis and Cantonese opera are the favorite entertainment activities of Guangzhou people. The most popular forms of entertainment for tourists are bars and night trips to the Pearl River. Ordinary billiards rooms in Guangzhou are all over the streets and lanes of Guangzhou, and they can be seen everywhere, and the price is cheap. Cantonese opera is a traditional drama in Guangzhou, known as the "Southern Red Bean". It is deeply loved by the people of Guangzhou for its flexible and delicate performances, smooth and changeable vocals and beautiful and harmonious melodies. Guangzhou Guangming Theater, Huanghuagang Theater, Lijiang Pearl Opera House, Guangzhou South Theater, Ping 'an Theater and other major theaters often have performances of classic traditional Cantonese operas such as Legend of the Dragon Elephant Tower, Wife Meeting in Xihe River, Champion of Qianlong Point and Wutai Brotherhood. There are also wonderful large-scale square dramas and song and dance dramas in the world grand view, which perfectly combine exotic songs and dances through modern scientific and technological means.
In addition, there are many golf courses, tennis courts and bowling clubs in Guangzhou for fitness and health care. Karaoke dance halls, bars, etc. You can be relaxed and crazy, and the nightlife is rich and colorful. For Guangzhou people, a really good day begins with nightlife, so it has become the most important way of nightlife in Guangzhou.
Characteristic activity
Winter jasmine market time: at the beginning of the lunar calendar every year;
Venue: major parks and main streets in Guangzhou;
Introduction: Guangzhou, known as the "Flower City", is a flower market in spring, which originated from the flower market and night market in ancient Guangzhou. At that time, rows of bamboo sheds will be set up to display and sell flowers, fresh fruits and New Year's Eve supplies, which is called "Flower Street". On the eve of the Spring Festival, all major parks held Spring Festival flower shows, and colorful buildings were also set up on the theme streets of various districts. Flower farmers from four towns flocked to sell flowers and oranges until the early morning of the first day. This is a unique New Year Fair in Guangzhou.
cultural geography
Environment, History and Culture Guangzhou is located in the South Subtropical Zone, with its back facing the mountains and the sea. The maritime monsoon climate is particularly obvious, with the characteristics of warm and rainy, sufficient light and heat, small temperature difference, long summer and short frost period. The annual average temperature is between 20.6℃ and 22.5℃, which is generally the same as normal (the annual average temperature in Conghua City is 20.6℃, which is the lowest in local history), but the temperature in the year is abnormal, with the temperature in 65438+ 10 and February obviously low, and the temperature in March, September and 65438+ 10 is obviously high. The annual extreme maximum temperature is between 37.4℃ and 38.8℃, and the annual extreme minimum temperature is between-0.2℃ and 4.6℃.
It is said that Guangzhou was built by five immortals riding five-color sheep. They saved the city from famine. Therefore, Guangzhou is also called "Yangcheng". The earliest inhabitants of this area can be traced back to 2 14 BC, when Qin Shihuang sent troops south to capture the South China Sea.
Because Guangzhou is fortunate to be located at the northern end of the Pearl River, this city has been the most important southern port in China since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty (AD 6 18-907), it was the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and an important maritime route for transporting silk and other goods to the western regions. /kloc-was a Portuguese trading post in the 6th century, and/kloc-was a British trading post in the 7th century.
19 1 1 year. After the Qing Dynasty was eliminated, Guangzhou became the base of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Sun Yat-sen (1866- 1925), the first president of the Republic of China, was born in Cuiheng Village. In the early 1920s, he led the Kuomintang to organize a movement against the Northern Warlords in Guangzhou. Guangzhou is also the activity center of the budding * * * production party, and Mao Zedong and other leaders of the * * * production party used it as the activity base during 1925/ 1926.
After liberation, Guangzhou (a large area) devoted all its energy to economic development. Even if China cut off its ties with other countries, the Canton Fair is still the only exchange meeting for China to do business with western countries. Today, Guangzhou is still an important import and export center.
Guangzhou has a long history, which is recorded in the historical materials of the Zhou Dynasty, and is called "Chuting". During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, Emperor Wu, first proposed the title of "Guangzhou". As the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty, it is already one of the most prosperous cities in the south. Even in the closed-door Qing dynasty, it was the only trade port in China and held the lifeline of foreign trade. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou has gradually developed into the third largest city in China, the central city in South China and the cultural core city in the Pearl River Basin, and is known as the southern gate of China.
Guangzhou is called Wuyang City. According to legend, during the Zhou Dynasty, there was a great disaster in Guangzhou, and the people were in dire straits. God sent five immortals to the world on five fairy sheep with five ears of rice in their mouths. After the magical ear of rice saved the people, the immortal died, but the five fairy sheep wanted to stay on earth and continue to bless and protect the local people. Later, in order to commemorate Xian Yang, people made a statue for him, which is now the Wuyang sculpture in Yuexiu Park. The mascot of the16th Asian Games held in Guangzhou in 20 10 was designed according to the legend of Wuyang.
Practical information
Basic information of Guangzhou's geographical location: Located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, on the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to the South China Sea, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region, it is the south gate of China to the world.
Latitude and longitude: 23. 10 north latitude, 0//kloc-0 east longitude/3.438+04 east longitude.
Climatic conditions: subtropical monsoon climate
Area: 7263 square kilometers.
Population: population of the whole city 10045800.
Telephone area code: 020
Postal code: 5 10000
Administrative divisions: Luogang District, Yuexiu District, Haizhu District, Tianhe District, Baiyun District, Liwan District, Huangpu District, Panyu District, Huadu District, Nansha District and two county-level cities, Conghua City and Zengcheng City.
Matters needing attention
Customs/etiquette/taboos of tourist help information in Guangzhou;
The polite expressions of Guangzhou people are full of local characteristics, and foreigners who are new here often feel confused when they hear these words. Perhaps the most commonly used word in Cantonese is "you're welcome", which means "thank you", and sometimes it is used as "excuse me" and "trouble you". In Guangzhou, you should say "no" before asking for help or making way. "disturbing the day" is spoken when you go to someone and ask him to do something for you. It has two meanings: thank you and sorry. "Please show me your face" means "Please show me your face". "You give face" means "you give face".
Health:
The climate in Guangzhou is hot and humid, and it is easy to get angry. You can drink local "herbal tea" to get rid of the fire.
Security:
Guangzhou's public security is generally sound, but tourists still need to pay attention when going out. Especially in crowded places, you should take good care of your belongings. When you choose your way out, you should also pay attention to avoiding remoteness.
Traffic tips
1. Coins must be used for automatic ticket vending machines in Guangzhou subway station. There is an automatic money changer in the station, which can also be exchanged at the ticket booth or bank. Announce the stop in Guangzhou subway car, in Mandarin, Cantonese and English in turn. After reporting the station, only introduce the places or buildings near the station in Mandarin.
2. In gongyuanqian station of Guangzhou Metro, passengers need to get off at the right gate in the direction of the train and enter the transfer area or exit area. The transfer area is in the middle of the platforms on both sides, and the exit area is at both ends of the platform. At the same time, the right door will be opened first after the train stops. Please remember to get off at the door on the right.
When you take a taxi in Guangzhou, you'd better know the address of the place you want to go in advance, because many drivers are unfamiliar with the road and may delay a lot of time.
Guangzhou is located in the transitional zone between the north temperate zone and the tropics, across the Tropic of Cancer, with an annual average temperature of 22℃, an average temperature of 28.5℃ in the hottest month (July), an average temperature of 65438 03.3℃ in the most Leng Yue (1 month), an extreme minimum temperature of 0℃ and a maximum temperature of 39.65438 0℃. It belongs to the south subtropical monsoon climate and has a pleasant climate. It is one of the largest cities with the smallest annual average temperature difference in China, with the characteristics of warm and rainy, sufficient light and heat, long summer and short frost period. The same period of water and heat throughout the year, abundant rainfall, is conducive to plant growth, providing excellent conditions for Guangzhou, a flower city with flowers. The annual average rainfall is 1982.7mm, and the average relative humidity is 68%. April-June is the rainy season, and August-September is the best season for tourism, with hot weather and many typhoons. 10- 12 has moderate temperature. April-June is rainy season, and there are many typhoons in August-September.
In winter and spring, Guangzhou is an ocean of flowers. By then, the south china botanical garden, Orchid Garden, Xiyuan Bonsai House, Yuntai Garden, Yuexiu Park and Cultural Park of Chinese Academy of Sciences, which hold chrysanthemum exhibitions in spring and autumn every year, will be full of flowers.
In summer, Guangzhou is hot and rainy, and it is hot and hot in summer. Cool water sports can not only cool off the heat, but also experience the coolness of water sports. Chimelong Water Park plays water sports, Guangzhou World Grand View, Chimelong Happy World, Mei Sen Happy Camp and other entertainment places are very attractive, and you can also go rafting in Bishuixia to experience a thrilling journey.
Autumn is cool and windy, so you can go shopping in Guangzhou. There is the largest and most concentrated wholesale market in China. You can go to Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, Beijing Road Pedestrian Street and other famous commercial streets, and you will be satisfied.
skill
Spring (March to mid-May): When the temperature and humidity rise, you should wear a thin coat or sweater.
Summer (May to mid-September): It is rainy, so it is advisable to bring rain gear.
Autumn (12 from late September to early February): Wear sweaters and thin coats.
Winter (65438+mid-February to late February): The weather is cool, and you need to wear a coat occasionally.
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