Introduction of Tourist Attractions in Seven Counties and One District of Meizhou

Introduction of tourist attractions in Meizhou. Let's get to know each other.

1. Renjing Road is located on the Zhou Xi River in the eastern suburb of Meizhou City. It is the former residence of Huang Zunxian, a patriotic poet in the late Qing Dynasty. It was built in the spring of 1884. The land on earth is based on the famous sentence of Tao Yuanming, a great poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Building a house in a land on earth without chariots and horses".

2. Meizhou Qianfota Temple is located at the top of Dadongyan Mountain in the eastern suburb of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. The whole pagoda is divided into seven layers and is square, with 250 Buddha statues on each side. There are 65,438+0,000 Buddha statues in the whole tower, so it is called Thousand Buddha Pagodas.

3. Lingguang Temple in Meixian County is located at the foot of Yinna Mountain, 40 kilometers south of Meixian County, and 46 kilometers away from Meizhou City. It is one of the four famous temples in Guangdong. The founder was Pan Lequan, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, who died in Xian Tong for two years (86 1) and was founded by villagers.

4. Xiang Qiao Village, located at the foot of Wuhu Mountain in Meizhou City, is a beautiful and quaint ancient village. She was built by the winding river in the hometown of overseas Chinese, with simple folk customs and beautiful scenery. The ubiquitous Hakka legacy tells the story of hundreds of years here.

5. Qiaoxi Ancient Rhyme Scenic Area is located in Qiaoxi Village, Yangyan Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City. It is a well-preserved Hakka mountain village. Hakka houses in the village are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the mountains and streams are clear. It is located in Guangdong Nature Reserve.

6. Meizhou Sakura Valley is located in Zhashang Village, Chengbei Town, Meijiang District, more than ten minutes' drive from the urban area. European chapel, Champs Elysé es, coffee house, railway station. This is Alice Manor (Meizhou Sakura Valley) filled with romantic atmosphere everywhere.

7. Wuzhishi Scenic Area in Meizhou Plain, a national 4A-level scenic spot and a national natural tourist landscape, is located at the junction of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, and integrates three major landscapes of "Danxia landform, forest ecology and cultural relics".

8. Meizhou Yanming Lake Tourist Resort, now called Meizhou Yanshan Lake International Garden Resort, is one of the scenic spots under Huayin Tourism, the largest tourism group in eastern Guangdong, and the largest national-level tourist scenic spot in eastern Guangdong. The mountains in the scenic spot are very clear.

9. Tongguzhang (Tonggufeng) is located in shatian town, Fengshun County, Meizhou City, 84 kilometers away from Tangkeng, the county seat, with rich and peculiar natural and cultural landscapes. Tonggu Peak is magnificent, with three peaks above sea level 1000 meters.

10. Luhushan Cultural Industrial Park is a comprehensive high-end cultural tourism industry platform integrating cultural sightseeing, physical fitness, ecological health preservation and leisure and holiday functions. At present, the standard golf of Mountain International Championship has been established.

1 1. Meizhou Yanshan Lake International Garden Resort, formerly known as Meizhou Yanming Lake Tourist Resort, is the first international tourist resort with the theme of flowers in eastern Guangdong, which is located in the National Forest Park and is rich in natural ecological resources.

12, Meizhou Ketianxia Tourism Industrial Park, a national preferred tourism project and a national 4A-level scenic spot, is located in Meijiang District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, covering an area of about 2,000 hectares, and is mainly composed of "Top Ten Cultural Projects" and "Five Scenic Spots".

13, Yannanfei Tea Farm Scenic Spot is the first national 5A scenic spot in eastern Guangdong, located in Yangyan Town, Meixian County, the hometown of Marshal Ye Jianying. Wild geese flying south are like a "pearl" bred by Lingshan Xiushui.

14. Longguizhai Waterfall is located in Xiacun, north of Tangkeng Town, Fengshun County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. It is 8 kilometers away from Tangkeng and 0/3 kilometers away from the county seat/kloc-. It comes from Saga Mountain at an altitude of 1285 meters in Fengshun, and is known as "Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guangdong Province".

Introduction of Tourist Attractions in Meizhou City

Introduction of Tourist Attractions in Meizhou City

Many friends from all corners of the country want to visit Meizhou, but they don't know where to go, so they often ask local classmates for help. The following is an introduction to the tourist attractions in Meizhou. Welcome to reading.

1 yannanfei chatian resort

Yannanfei Tea Garden Resort takes "Tea Garden Scenery Tourism Resort" as its development direction, and through tea planting, processing, tea art and tea poems, it creates a strong tea culture connotation, blends into Hakka culture, and has both natural scenery and agricultural development and holiday functions. In the tea garden of Yan Nanfei, you will find the beautiful scenery of "Xanadu" in your mind, green tea gardens, quaint and elegant villas, flowing springs, flowers and lush green grass. You can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery, but also increase your knowledge of tea, appreciate the connotation of tea culture at home and abroad, and taste traditional Hakka dishes, such as boiled meatballs, mountain snails and braised pork with plum vegetables.

Transportation: Take bus 17, get off at Yannanfei Station and walk 700 meters to Yannanfei Tea Farm Resort.

2 Yanming Lake Tourist Resort

Yanming Lake Tourist Resort, a national AAAA scenic spot, is located in fu cun, Yangyan Town, Meixian County. Invested and developed by Guangdong Huayin Co., Ltd. on the basis of Huayin Reclamation Farm in Meixian County, it is a tourist resort integrating sightseeing, leisure and fitness. Yanming Lake Tourist Resort has been rated as "National Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Site" in recent years. In recent years, we have continuously increased investment and developed three scenic spots, namely Chunhui Garden, Xiaxiaoyuan Garden and Qiushiyuan, with 3,500 mu of fruit planting, 3,000 mu of afforestation, more than 800 mu of aquaculture and a number of other famous cash crops. There is a large-scale thoroughbred beef cattle farm. A number of tourist attractions and supporting service facilities have been built, including tourist service center, hotel, Yinhu Hotel, villa, teahouse, ski resort, swimming pool, children's amusement park, entertainment city, Green Island Square, Purple Smoke Waterfall, Meichi, Yinhu Temple, tennis court, badminton court, billiards hall, rose garden, horse station, Hakka cultural corridor and golf course. Facilities such as racetrack, children's playground, forest park and hunting ground will also be built.

Transportation: Take bus 10 and get off at Yanming Lake Scenic Spot Station.

3 Yinnashan

Yin Na, located in Yangyan Town, Meixian County, Guangdong Province, is the leading scenic mountain in Meizhou, and is known as the "ancestor of mountains in eastern Guangdong". Yin Na is famous for her beautiful flowers, which are spread in Fujian and Guangdong. It is as famous as Luofu and South China Zhi Ding, and it is also called "Three Musts in East Guangdong". Yinna Mountain stretches for more than 300 miles in the northeast and southwest. The five peaks on the top of the mountain are juxtaposed, with an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Therefore, there is a saying that "there are three States in the depths of the white clouds" (Meizhou, Chaozhou and Tingzhou). Yinna Mountain stands on Meijiang Plain, with majestic mountains and green peaks. There is snow on the top of the mountain in winter. It has the characteristics of "sacred mountains, peaks, strange stones, green waterfalls and floating clouds".

Transportation: Get off at Meizhou Railway Station and take a bus to Yuemei Bus Station. At 9 o'clock in the morning, there is a direct bus to Yin Na. If students go, it is recommended to attend on election day. When to go by car?

4 Hakka Park

Hakka Park, located in Xikou, Dongshan, Meizhou City, is the largest exhibition place of Hakka culture in China. The design of the park condenses the essence of Hakka culture. The overall design takes Hakka culture as the system and Hakka Museum as the core, and displays the achievements of Hakka culture through many theme scenic spots with different connotations, such as immigration, education, ethics, folk customs and farming. It mainly includes more than 30 scenic spots, such as Hakka Cultural Square, Hakka Museum, Huang Zunxian Memorial Hall, Hakka customs tour venue and Hakka folk culture exhibition.

Transportation: You can take bus 1 and 6 to Hakka Park Station.

5 Ye Jianying Memorial Hall

Ye Jianying Memorial Park is integrated, expanded and enriched on the basis of Marshal Ye Jianying's former residence and memorial hall. Now it has expanded into four functional areas: humanistic scenic area, memorial scenic area, ecological forest area and tourism and leisure service area, and added parks, squares, lakes and marshes, bridges and corridors. The new memorial hall is built on the mountain, with three floors high, geometric structure, grand momentum, modern atmosphere, aesthetics and practicality, and is divided into four exhibition halls. Through the display of a large number of pictures, objects and works of art, the great glory and legendary life of Marshal Ye Jianying are vividly displayed.

Transportation: Take bus 10 and 17 and get off at Jianying Memorial Park Station.

6 Lingguang Temple

Lingguang Temple is located at the foot of Yinna Mountain, 40 kilometers south of Meixian County. The existing halls are buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and beyond. Among them, the largest Buddhist temple (also known as Polo Hall) rests on the top of the mountain with double eaves, three rooms wide and seven rooms deep. When the incense in the temple is flourishing, there is still no smoke outside the temple; There are towering ancient trees behind the temple, and there are no fallen leaves on the top of the temple, which may be related to the top of Polo. It is a masterpiece in architectural science and art. The top of Yinna Mountain around the temple is cut like five fingers, which is called Wu Zhifeng. Looking up into the distance, the confluence of Meijiang River, Tingjiang River and Meitan River can be seen everywhere. There are incense burners on the left and right, white tiger and two peaks, and the mountain shadow pool light shines up and down, which is fascinating.

Transportation: Take bus 10 and get off at Lingguang Temple scenic spot station, and walk for 300 meters.

Seven thousand pagodas

Located in the eastern suburb of Meizhou City, the Thousand Pagodas Temple in Meizhou City is a women's Dojo developed for the protection of the Thousand Pagodas in the Southern Han Dynasty and a key cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. The Thousand-Buddha Pagoda was cast in the eighth year of Dabao in the Southern Han Dynasty (AD 965). It is located in Xiuhui Temple in this city, which was moved to qi zhou Temple by state officials in the Qing Dynasty (these two ancient temples have long since disappeared). The Thousand-Buddha Pagoda * * has seven floors, with a height of 4.2 meters and a bottom width of 1.6 meters. It is square, and there are thousands of buddhas cast on the Thousand Buddha Pagoda in Meizhou, hence its name. The whole pagoda building is a treasure of China's traditional culture and art, and also a symbol of Meizhou's famous historical and cultural city. The tower lights are shining high, and the title is "Lingnan Pearl", and people who come to worship are in an endless stream.

Transportation: Take bus 12, 20 and get off at Qianfota Station.

8 ketianxia

Meizhou Ketianxia Tourism Industrial Park is a Hakka folk culture tourism industrial park approved by Meizhou Municipal People's Government of Guangdong Province, which integrates scientific research, education, ecology, culture, leisure, vacation, residence and tourism. Building a new socialist countryside and creating a "world guest capital and cultural Meizhou" are the key projects of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" of Meizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. It is also the social project and popular project of "prospering the city through tourism" in Meizhou, and it is also a new business card for Meizhou to go global.

Transportation: Take Bus No.4 and get off at Ketianxia Station.

9 pankeng

Pankeng Tourist Scenic Area is located in Sanjiao Town, the southern suburb of Meicheng, 4 kilometers away from Meicheng and 2 kilometers away from Meizhou Railway Station. Known as "Meinan Scenic Area", it is a resort for holiday and leisure tourism. Pankeng Scenic Area covers an area of 9 square kilometers, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, deep halls and rich natural and cultural landscapes. There is Pankeng Hu Ming (Pankeng Reservoir), which is a collection of high mountain water such as Huangshazhang, Qingliangshan and Gaoguanyin, with a storage capacity of 6.5438+0.6 million cubic meters. The water is green as jade, and visitors can enjoy the mountains and rivers. There is a 3000-meter-long "Hakka Cultural Corridor", which consists of 30 corridors and 30 pavilions with their own characteristics. Visitors can enjoy browsing poems, pictures, riddles and proverbs that represent the essence of Hakka culture, so that visitors can have a deeper understanding of Hakka culture. There is a cobblestone "Denggao Road" with steps of ***2 185, where visitors can climb for fitness and enjoy the forest scenery. Climbing to the top of the mountain, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of Meicheng and the national AAAA-level tourist attractions separated by a mountain-Ketianxia Tourism Industrial Park and Meizhou Economic Development Zone Dongsheng Industrial Park. There is the "Sanshanwang Temple", which was built in the Ming Dynasty. Villagers generally call it "Pankeng Wang Gong Temple".

Transportation: Take bus 1 and get off at Pankeng Primary School Station, and walk 100 meters to Pankeng.

10 finger stone

Wuzhishi, a provincial scenic spot in Pingyuan, is located in Chagan Town, Pingyuan County at the junction of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces. It has gathered three major landscapes of "Danxia landform, forest ecology, cultural relics and historic sites", which have the characteristics of heroism, danger, strangeness, beauty, seclusion and antiquity. From a distance, the finger stone is steep, shaped like five outstretched fingers, rising from the ground and stabbing the sky, hence the name "finger stone". The highest peak of Wuzhishan is more than 460 meters above sea level. Wuzhishan has rich and unique natural and cultural landscape resources. There are more than 60 scenic spots in the scenic area, such as "Five Wonders" (grotesque rocks, grotesque seams, grotesque trees and grotesque caves), "Eight Wonders" (Jianmen, Shilin Temple, Lingquan, Hunyuan Tower, Yixiantian, Ren Xian Bed, Longwutang and Qingyun Road), Jingju, Butterfly Valley and Ecological Park. Wuzhishi is rich in wildlife resources, with more than 0/000 species of higher plants/kloc-,belonging to more than 200 genera of 70 families and more than 30 species of wild animals. Wuzhishi belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, which is not cold in spring, not hot in summer, not dry in autumn and not cold in winter. The tourist season is long, the mountains are strange, and the forests are clear, so it has the reputation of "being the best in the world and poor in Small Guilin". Lv Zhixian, former vice minister of culture, visited Wuzhishi and wrote an inscription praising it as a "fairyland on earth with beautiful five fingers", which is a new tourist attraction in southern Guangdong.

Transportation: You can take buses to Pingyuan at major bus stations in Meizhou City, and there are no.8 buses from Pingyuan County to the scenic spot, which runs once every hour/kloc-0.

1 1 Yuan Kui Tower

Yuan Kui Tower, commonly known as Songkou Tower, is located in Pan Tong Village in the lower reaches of Meijiang River, 8 kilometers away from Songkou Town in Meixian County. It was founded in the forty-seventh year of Wanli (16 19) and completed in the second year of Chongzhen (1629), which took 10 years. According to legend, this is because he failed to go to Beijing four times after his trip to Xieyuan in 2002. He felt that the beauty of the mountains and rivers at the exit of Meixi in Songkou was not good, and he wanted to build a tower to make up for the lack of "Feng Shui". The tower is built at the corner of Songkou River. The tower is a pavilion, octagonal, with 7 floors and a height of more than 40 meters. The top of the tower is embedded with an iron-cast treasure gourd. The base is about 1.5 meters in diameter and weighs 10000 kilograms. So far, no one can tell how it was put on the top of the tower. The bottom of the tower is mainly square granite, and the rest layers are all made of blue bricks.

Transportation: After arriving at Yuemei Station in Meicheng, take a bus to Songkou Town.

12 Calyx Building

Calyx Building is located in Lianfeng Village, Dadong Town, dapu county, 45 kilometers away from the county seat. It was built in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1608) and has a history of nearly 400 years. It is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. Calyx Building covers an area of 2,300 square meters with a building area of 2,286 square meters. It is a circular building with civil structure. * * * Third Ring Road, with 30 rooms on the first floor of the inner ring, 60 rooms on the second floor of the second ring road, and rooms on the third floor of the outer ring road 120, * * * 2 10. The building height is 1 1.9 meters. The building wall is rammed with raw soil, and the bottom is 2 meters wide. The top floor is 1.3 meters wide, and the roof is made of wood beams and gray tiles. There are no windows on the first floor of the building, and there are triangular holes in the walls on the second and third floors. There is only one door in and out of the whole building. The big door frame is made of thick and wide granite slabs, and the door panels are nailed with thick iron sheets. These door and window facilities are specially designed to resist intruders. There is a circular patio with an area of 283.4 square meters, which is paved with pebbles of different sizes and decorated with an ancient coin pattern with a diameter of 3 meters in the center, symbolizing people's desire to pray for adequate food and clothing. There is an ancient well on one side of the patio for fire prevention and living. There are also common living facilities such as Xi and Xi in the building. The layout of the whole earth building is reasonable, with ventilation and lighting, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. Now there are more than ten families named Lin living in this building. Calyx Building is exquisitely designed and has a unique structure, which shows the Hakka people's life concept of perfection, unity, equality and equality. It is the largest, most beautifully designed and best preserved ancient residential building in Guangdong, and it is also a miracle of the world residential building.

Transportation: S223—- meilong expressway-s333-s221terminal.

13 Fengshun Hot Spring

Fengshun County is one of the counties with the richest geothermal resources in China. Known as "Nine Soups and Eighteen Soups", it is a famous hot spring city. The county is rich in hot spring resources, with the characteristics of high water temperature, large flow, good water quality and many natural outcrops, which is called "the first in Asia". The first geothermal power station in China was built in Dengwu Village, the county seat. The daily dynamic reserves of hot springs in the county reach 22,000 tons, with the highest radon content of 669.7 Bekkerel/liter and the highest water temperature of 92℃. * * * There are 24 hot water activity areas distributed in 9 towns. Fengshun Hot Spring is located in the east of Guangdong Province, at the southern end of Meizhou City, and at the western edge of Chaoshan Plain. This is a small mountain area surrounded by green mountains and green waters, and it is called "Jiutang Shiba Dog Village". Rich in minerals, such as sulfur, magnesium, calcium, radon and other elements. Sulfur has detoxification and anti-inflammatory effects, and radon has more extensive effects. Soaking in hot springs can regulate body function, improve blood circulation and promote metabolism, which has obvious curative effect on rheumatic pain and early hypertension, especially for skin protection. After soaking, the whole body is comfortable and the skin is smooth.

Transportation:

Fengshun Qianjiang Hot Spring: Take Meishan Expressway, get off at Fengshun Exit and walk about 500 meters. Fengshun Jindebao Hot Spring: Take Meishan Expressway to Fengshun, and walk about 800 meters to Fengshun Baofeng Hot Spring; Take Meishan Expressway, get out of Fengshun, and walk about 100 meters.

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What are the interesting places in Meizhou? What are the scenic spots that must be visited?

High-end products include Yanming Lake and Yan Nanfei, which are used for holidays. If it is personal or financial, I suggest not to consider them. There are many other scenic spots that are more economical and distinctive. The following scenic spots are free and instructive: Hakka Museum, Ye Shuai's former residence, Hakka World (free for festivals), Pankeng, Thousand Buddha Pagodas, Lingguang Temple, Baisui Mountain, Yin Na, and Plain Wuzhishan. I'm a college student in jiaying university, and we've been to all these places for group day activities. If you are a non-native, these places are worth visiting ~

Attractions:

Shuangjishan Provincial Forest Park

Fengxi provincial forest park

Dabu Hakka Folk Culture Village

Zou Lu, the first president of Sun Yat-sen University, lived in his ancestral home-Dear Hall.

Former residence of Chairman Luo of Guangdong Province in the Republic of China-Jiangdong

Jielu, the former residence of Fan, chairman of Jehol Province in the Republic of China-"Huochuan Building"

Duplex building, the former residence of Wu Qiwei, chairman of Hunan Province in the Republic of China

Former residence of Zhao, acting president of Anton province in the Republic of China

Xiyanshan tea village resort

Xi Gong Hu yuan

China southern work Committee former site

The ancestral home of Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore-Middle Cold Region

Father and son golden stone memorial archway

"One belly and three courtyards" —— The General Comment of the Hundred Emperors on Dafu Di

Fangshilou-Julio Taian Building

Tulou-Dadong Calyx Building

lingyan temple

Lingjue temple

Wenwuge

Pan Hu nunnery

Guangfu palace

wanfu temple

Stone scenery of Qilin Mountain

Northern line:

West Lake Park, Tai 'an Building-Xihe Hakka Folk Culture Village-Chayang "Father and Son Jinshi" Stone Archway-"Shiponglong"-Fengxi Forest Resort

South line

West Lake Park, Tai 'anlou-Sanheba Campaign Memorial Park-Sanhe Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Zhongshan Park-Ming Dynasty Ancient City-Han Jiangyuan-Lee Kuan Yew's ancestral home-Gaobei Ceramic Cultural Tourism Zone.

West line

West Lake Park, Tai 'anlou-Sanheba Campaign Memorial Park-Sanhe Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Zhongshan Park-Ming Dynasty Ancient City-Hanjiang Source-wanfu temple.

East line

West Lake Park, Tai 'an Building-Guangfu Palace-Baihou Chinese and Western Houses-"One Abdomen and Three Han Courtyards"-Xiyan Mountain Tea Garden-South Working Committee-Dadong Calyx Building

Meizhou-Tai Po

D 1, Meizhou Yannanfei Tea Farm Resort (or Yanming Lake Resort) —— wanfu temple —— Sanhe Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Zhongshan Park —— Ancient City of Ming Dynasty —— Hanjiang River Source —— Sanheba Campaign Memorial Park —— County West Lake Park, Tai 'an Building ——— Stay in dapu county.

D2。 Dapu county-Xihe Hakka Folk Culture Village-Chayang "father and son Jinshi" stone archway-Fengxi Forest Resort

What are the interesting tourist attractions in Meizhou?

By implementing the national tourism and leisure plan, and holding a series of activities such as revisiting the ancient Hakka migration road, Guangdong go on road trip Day, and wonderful go on road trip Week, Meizhou was rated as "the most popular destination for riders" and "the best leisure city" in Guangdong Province. What are the interesting tourist attractions in Meizhou?

1, Meizhou Hakka World Scenic Area: Meizhou Hakka World Scenic Area is a Hakka cultural eco-tourism industrial park integrating scientific research, education, training, ecology, culture, leisure, vacation, residence and tourism. It is a "tourism industrial park" and also a Hakka cultural eco-tourism industrial park. It is a key project to build Meizhou into a "world guest capital and cultural Meizhou" in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, and it is also a new business card for Meizhou to go global.

2. Yannanfei Tea Farm Scenic Spot: Meizhou Yannanfei Tea Farm Resort has been upgraded to a 5A-level tourist scenic spot. Backed by Yinna Mountain Scenic Area, the resort is an eco-agricultural demonstration base and tourist resort integrating tea production, ecological public welfare forest transformation, landscaping and tourism. It has successively won the national 5A-level tourist scenic spot, the national agricultural tourism demonstration site, the national three-high agricultural standardization demonstration zone and the national youth civilization number.

3. Ye Jianying Memorial Park: On May 5, 2005, Ye Jianying Memorial Park was integrated, expanded and enriched on the basis of the former Marshal Ye Jianying's former residence and memorial hall. Now it has expanded into four functional areas: humanistic scenic spot, memorial scenic spot, ecological forest area and tourism and leisure service area, and added new landscapes such as parks, squares, lakes and marshes, bridges and corridors.

4. Luhushan Cultural Industrial Park: Luhushan Cultural Industrial Park is located in Luhushan, Nankou Town, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, with an altitude of 450 meters. It is backed by the famous tourist attraction "Overseas Chinese Town" and covers an area of 6,000 mu (2,300 mu of construction land). It is a national cultural industrial park.

5. Yinna Mountain Tourist Resort: Yinna Mountain Tourist Resort is located in Yangyan Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, in the northeast of Lianhua Mountain with beautiful scenery in eastern Guangdong; Tourist resorts are mainly divided into two parts: natural landscape and human landscape.

There are so many interesting tourist attractions in Meizhou.