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Located at the southeast coast of China, Xiamen is a tourist city of Fujian Province famous for its attractive seascape. As one of the major seaports since ancient times, Xiamen boasts a wide gulf with deep water but without freezing and silting. The name of 'Xiamen' was consequently given, which means 'a gate of China'. As one of the forerunners of the special economic zones of China, Xiamen mainly consisting of Xiamen Island, Gulangyu Island, the north bank area of the Jiulong River and Tong'an County, is connected with the mainland by the Gaoji Seawall, Xiamen Bridge, etc. Xiamen has been called the Egret Island because of the hundreds of thousands of egrets inhabiting there. This is due to the beautiful natural scenery, the fresh air and the clean environment of the city.

Being of a subtropical monsoon climate with mild weather all year round expect the typhoon months, Xiamen is an ideal tourist destination for you. It is a typical littoral city with abundant tourist attractions such as islands, mountains, temples and parks, etc., providing you with a full sightseeing schedule. The well-known Gulangyu Island, Nanputuo Temple and other tourist areas like Jimei, Wanshiyan, etc. are highly recommended. A sea tourist line is also available for you to enjoy the amazing scenery of many beautiful small islands around.

Xiamen enjoys convenient transportation. You can go there by air, by train, by coach or by sea. The transportation within the city is also satisfying. Most tourists consider the accommodation in Xiamen, consisting of many star rated hotels, convenient. Meanwhile Xiamen has plenty of special local products to be added to your shopping list, including various kinds of tealeaves, fruits like sugarcanes, olives and longans as well as sea products such as fish, prawns, crabs, abalones and lancelets

Being the hometown of many overseas Chinese, Xiamen has actually benefited from the contribution of overseas Chinese and its economy has undertaken great advancement. To promote its tourism industry, it has established not only the corresponding infrastructures, but also a great variety of entertainment centers. The folk customs of the minorities, varied local festivals and especially the particular local dishes and snacks are also appealing to visitors. Xiamen, with distinct oriental culture and southern Fujian features, welcomes you from all over the world.   

Gulangyu

Customs and festivals

Gulangyu scenic honor national key scenic spots Gulangyu ticket price of 50 yuan / person (including ferry transition costs and Haoyue Park attraction tickets) is located in Fujian Xiamen Gulangyu festivals, Taiwanese culture and long history and has many unique characteristics of customs, festivals These traditional practices when they reflected particularly strong. 

Accommodation information

If visitors want to shop, you can go to Gulangyu leading the way, here"s a small shop everywhere you can buy local products. Such as: craft shops, calligraphy shop, beaded, carved lacquer line, color bar, painted sculptures, ceramics and so on. Piano museum souvenirs Gulangyu is the famous "dao", known for piano known, Gulangyu best souvenirs in addition to memories outside the museum where the piano is only sold in spades wooden penholder made, key chain, printed box, pen kits , superior materials, fine workmanship, carving a museum collection The wide range of the piano, a print cartridge (68 yuan), a key chain (15 yuan). In addition, you can also buy some Gulangyu post office stamp folder or covers something, but also very memorable.

Good Food Guide

Xiamen is a national sanitary city, including tourists every citizen has a responsibility to keep the city clean and tidy. Government regulations enacted for this purpose, littering, destruction of the city clean, and will be based on the severity of punishment. Municipal government issued regulations prohibiting smoking in public places, and offenders may be punished. Any provisions smoking places, have posted "No Smoking" sign. Walks can purchase for short-term travel accident insurance, my insurance company or buy online, Xiamen excellent protection network a 20 yuan.

Shopping and specialty

If visitors want to shop, you can go to Gulangyu leading the way, here"s a small shop everywhere you can buy local products. Such as: craft shops, calligraphy shop, beaded, carved lacquer line, color bar, painted sculptures, ceramics and so on. Piano museum souvenirs Gulangyu is the famous "dao", known for piano known, Gulangyu best souvenirs in addition to memories outside the museum where the piano is only sold in spades wooden penholder made, key chain, printed box, pen kits , superior materials, fine workmanship, carving a museum collection The wide range of the piano, a print cartridge (68 yuan), a key chain (15 yuan). In addition, you can also buy some Gulangyu post office stamp folder or covers something, but also very memorable.

Travel Tips

Xiamen is a national sanitary city, including tourists every citizen has a responsibility to keep the city clean and tidy. Government regulations enacted for this purpose, littering, destruction of the city clean, and will be based on the severity of punishment. Municipal government issued regulations prohibiting smoking in public places, and offenders may be punished. Any provisions smoking places, have posted "No Smoking" sign. Walks can purchase for short-term travel accident insurance, my insurance company or buy online, Xiamen excellent protection network a 20 yuan.

Features Aspect

Food Shopping: Gulangyu leading the way is the island"s most important shopping street of restaurants, concentrated on the island four cuisines: Yip Ma hereby, the original alley balls, Wang Kee pies, Huang Sheng Kee jerky, and Gulangyu pie, green bean cake, floss and meat and other specialties. Gulangyu numerous food, as well as the island seafood, San crazy tea, capsules fragrant Bianshi, BBC royal cake, spread at the head of the road.

Nanputuo Temple

Customs and festivalsLike most temples of its kind in China, Nanputuo Temple (Nánpǔtuó Sì, 南普陀寺) has seen its share of violence and destruction. The original constructions were built more than a millennium ago, then destroyed and later rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, only to repeat the process in the Ming Dynasty and yet again during the Cultural Revolution. Later renovations in the early 1980"s left the temple as it is today.

Features Aspect

The temple consists of four separate halls of worship, monk"s quarters and some of the best maintained grounds and landscaping you"re likely to find in any Chinese temple. Stone carvings, lotus filled ponds and secluded caves are scattered about the grounds. If you"re after a bit of good luck, try tossing a coin on the rock behind the main temple?if it says on, good luck should be coming your way. Behind the smoky courtyards, libraries, monk"s digs, temples and statues of chubby Buddha Milefo is Wulao Feng (Wǔlǎo Fēng, 五老峰), "the peak of five old men," which overlooks the South China Sea, offering good views of Xiamen University (Xiàmén Dàxué, 厦门大学) campus and the sprawling urban metropolis of Xiamen.

Xiamen Botanical Garden

Xiamen Botanical Garden is the first of its kind in Fujian Province, and has an area of 4.93 square kilometers. Sitting in the cradle of mountains and lakes, the Garden is the host of a variety of tourist attractions, including over 7,000 kinds of plants and many precipice inscriptions.