Gulangyu Scenic Area has the title of five most scenic urban areas in China. It is a comprehensive island scenic and cultural tourist area integrating sightseeing, vacation, tourism, shopping, leisure and entertainment. The green coverage rate of the whole island is over 40%, and the plant population is rich, with more than 90 families and various trees, shrubs, vines and ground cover plants 1000 species.
Representative scenic spots in the scenic area include Sunguangyan, Lu Manor, Hao Yueyuan, Yu Garden, Gulangyu Piano Museum, Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall, Underwater World, natural bathing beach and so on.
2. Nanputuo Temple
Nanpuyuan Temple faces south, facing the mountain and the sea. The scale is grand and the momentum is solemn. The main buildings on the central axis are the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Le Tu Hall, the Great Compassion Hall and the Sutra Pavilion. The five old peaks behind Nanputuo Temple stand on the seashore and span the sky, with extraordinary style.
Five peaks soar into the sky, and sometimes white clouds fill the air. From a distance, it seems that five old people with white hair and beard are looking forward to the vast sea. This is the "Five Old Lingxiao", one of the eight scenic spots in Xiamen. Climbing straight up, the beautiful campus scenery of Xiamen University and the scenery of Xiamen Port will be unobstructed.
3. Beichen Mountain
Beichen Mountain is a hilly granite landform, characterized by Twelve Longtan Waterfalls, with beautiful natural landscape and numerous cultural relics. There are strange peaks and rocks on both sides of Twelve Longtan Lake, and the scenery is pleasant. The Zhuba Reservoir downstream has a wide water surface and a tortuous coastline.
The main scenic spots are Beichen Mountain Gate, the Millennium Temple "Guangli Temple", Wang Statue Square, Bougainvillea Base, Baijiantai, Dam, Canyon, Longquan Cave, Paomaping, Beichen Memorial Forest, Longtan Stone Carving, Xiangu Cave, Xianren Waterfall, Cave, Twelve Dragon Walls, Twelve Dragon Ponds, Wang Tombs, Qingtang Waterfall, Lingfeng and Zhubayuan.
4. Xiamen Huandao Road
Xiamen Island Road is 43 kilometers long and 60 meters wide. Construction has always adhered to the purpose of "looking at the sea by the sea and leaving the most beautiful beaches to the people". Some are close to mountains and seas, some are bridges across the sea, and some are drilled through rocks. The construction has a high starting point and strict standards, which fully embodies the characteristics of subtropical scenery. It is one of the main tourist routes around the sea in Xiamen.
The whole road is natural and fresh, with elegant taste and elegant appearance. Among them, a section of the coast from Xiamen University to Qianpu, about 9 kilometers long, is called the golden coastline, which is a coastal green corridor integrating tourism, sightseeing and leisure. "Looking at the sea in the East Ring Road" was rated as one of the 20 new scenic spots in Xiamen.
5. Xiamen University
Xiamen University is surrounded by mountains and seas, backed by the Five Old Peaks, adjacent to Nanputuo Temple, an ancient temple in southern Fujian, and there is a bathing beach outside the school gate of Baicheng. Campus architecture is integrated with beautiful natural scenery, which is recognized as one of the top ten most beautiful campuses in China.
Most of the old buildings on campus were built by Mr Chen Jiageng's son-in-law. The drywall and glazed ceiling are very distinctive and are known as "wearing a suit and hat" (a metaphor for the architectural style of combining Chinese and western styles). In particular, the Jiannan Auditorium and Shangxianchang are magnificent and are the landmark buildings of Xiamen University.
6. Xiamen Garden Expo Park
Xiamen Garden Expo Park is one of the most beautiful places in Xiamen, which consists of the original Zhongzhou in Xinglin Bay and its nearby islands, as well as some coastal areas in the west and north of the Bay. At the start of construction, the river course was excavated manually, and Zhongzhou and its nearby islands were planned as 9 islands, which were connected by 16 bridge to form a "Water Garden Expo Park".
With the vast waters of Xinglin Bay as the background, the Garden Expo Park consists of five exhibition islands, four ecological landscape islands and two peninsulas, which naturally form the landscape characteristics of multi-island structure, with the stars on the water and the water in the garden.
7. Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden
Xiamen Garden Botanical Garden, commonly known as Shiwan Botanical Garden, is one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Xiamen, integrating plant landscape, natural landscape and human landscape.
There are more than ten characteristic gardens in the park, such as pine garden, gymnosperm garden, palm island, rose garden, psammophyte garden, rainforest world, flower garden and vine garden. It is also a collection of eight scenic spots in Xiamen, such as "Morning Bell in the Sky", "Qin Du Gao Dong", "Clouds lock all rocks", "Jade in the Rock" and "Stone Laughs at Peace".
8. Tianzhu Mountain Forest Park
Tianzhu Mountain Forest Park is 36 kilometers away from downtown Xiamen, with a forest coverage rate of 96.8%. Taimu Mountain has strange rocks, and Tuerling Bamboo Expo Park has bamboo sea scenery. The main scenic spots are Tianzhu Lake, Lianger Lake, Haoyue Lake, Longmen Temple, Zhen Ji Temple, Baizhuyuan and Yulong Bridge. Among them, Hao Yue Lake has green water plants, rippling blue waves, surrounded by green trees and deep twists and turns, such as Taoyuan Wonderland.
Bamboo in the garden has different shapes, including Fiona Fang, arc and sphere. Bamboo poles have turtle's back, Buddha's belly, Guanyin and the strangeness of bending straight. The colors are purple, green and yellow, with green in the middle and yellow in the middle.
9. Guangjin Lake Eco-tourism Zone
The mountain shape of the forest area in Guangjin Lake Eco-tourism Zone is like a "lake" with the beauty of Tuerling Rock. The Jiuqu River in Wuyishan is surrounded by six mountains and two hills, forming a "golden" shape. When the sun rises, the leaves are crystal clear and sparkling, hence the name "Guangjin Lake".
Guangjin Lake is known as "Xishuangbanna in southern Fujian", with a vast forest and a wide variety of wild animals and plants, with a total forest area of 7768 mu and the highest elevation of 845 meters. With towering old trees and winding paths, you can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature, but also enjoy the endless fun of "forest oxygen bar".
10, Bay Park
Bay Park is divided into seven scenic spots: Tianyuan Garden, Yuan Di Garden, Forest Garden, Grass Garden, Water Garden, Coastal Scenery and Avenue of Stars. It is divided into North Park and South Park by the Avenue of Stars.
The park takes the blue ocean as the carrier and applies the highly humanized concept to specific landscape elements. At the same time, the buildings in the park all adopt modern European architectural style, which complements the park and becomes a unique landscape.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiamen