"If you don't go to Sunlight Rock, you won't be in Xiamen", which shows the boss style of Sunlight Rock. The scenic spot is lush and full of subtropical romance. At its peak, a boulder with a diameter of more than 40 meters stands in the air and becomes a symbol of Xiamen. When Zheng Chenggong, a national hero, recovered Taiwan Province, he stationed troops here, leaving many legends. Scenic spots include Sun Guangyan and Qinyuan, and there are such scenic spots as "One Tile", "Lujiang Longdong", "Ancient Summer Cave", "Longtou Caotang", "Shuitai" and "100-meter High Platform", as well as inscriptions by literati in past dynasties. The peak looks high, but it can be reached in three steps. The beauty of Sunlight Rock is that it can stand at the highest place overlooking Gulangyu Island and Golden Gate in Taiwan Province Province. The only drawback is that the crowd is always chaotic.
There are Melody Square, Qin Si Square, Yiyun Building, Liu Yin Garden, Youyou Gate and Tingtao Cliff. The melody of Music of the Island is closely linked everywhere, which makes people feel that there is music everywhere. Bird Garden, Image Hall, Art Gallery and Hero Ode Garden are the subsidiary attractions of the Bird Garden.
The bird garden is very animal-like, and there are about 25 minutes of bird art performances. The performance time is 9: 30 am, 10: 30 am, 1 1: 30 am. Afternoon: 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock.
The cinema shows the musical scenery film "Tianfeng Haitao Gulangyu" at a fixed point, which is very artistic. Especially when you see the scenic spots you have just seen in the movie, your vanity can be satisfied immediately. The daily screening time is: 9: 00, 10: 00,1:00, 12: 00, 13: 00, 14: 00,/.
Route: summit (100m platform)-Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall-Riguangyan Temple-take the cable car to the opposite mountain-Qinyuan-Bird Garden-Cinema-Hero Stone-take the cable car back.
Admission: 60 yuan/person. Half price before 07: 30 and after 18: 00, but half price means you can't take the cable car, which means you can't reach the opposite hill.
Address: south-central Gulangyu Island.
Opening hours: 07: 00-20: 30.
Gulangyu tourism tips:
1) It is recommended not to wear fancy clothes into the bird garden. A friend once wore a flowered skirt and was chased by some parrots for 200 meters in the bird garden. Do you want to try this interesting experience?
2) Sunlight Rock is suitable for watching the sunrise. Come here in the morning, the air is fresh and the crowd hasn't arrived yet. Most importantly, you can enjoy the sunrise facing east from the commanding heights.
3) wear a hat. It is common for birds in the aviary to shit in the air, so it is recommended to wear a hat when passing through the aviary to prevent colorful shit from falling on your noble head.
2. Xinzhuang Garden
Xinzhuang Garden is located in the southeast coast of Gulangyu Island, and was built in 19 13. It used to be the private garden of Lin Erjia, a wealthy businessman in Taiwan Province Province. 1956, the owner's relatives dedicated the garden to the country.
Xinzhuang Garden is backed by rocks and faces the sea, with Guan Hai Garden in the east and Gangzi in the west. The whole park is divided into two parts: Tibetan Sea Garden and Bushan Garden, each with five views. The five scenic spots in Tibetan Sea are Meishoutang, Renqiu Pavilion, Lv Zhenting, No.44 Bridge and Zhaoliangting. The five scenic spots of the mountain are the stone mountain house and the twelve caves. I also love my family, the Tingchao Building and the Xiaolan Pavilion. The Guanfu Museum built by Mr. Ma Weidou is also in it.
Luzhuang Garden combines the seascape with the garden perfectly and has a unique flavor. Especially when you go deep, you gradually hear the sound of waves lapping on the shore. When you turn around the piano hall, the sea suddenly appears in front of you, and you will find the biggest feature of Lu Manor-"Tibetan scenery", which shows the ingenuity of the owner.
Among them, Bridge 44 has a great mystery. The gate under the bridge introduces seawater into the garden, forming three places: the sea, the outer pool and the inner pool. The moon-crossing pavilion on the bridge is the best place to see the sea and scenery in Luzhuang. There is a stone carving of the zodiac on the top of each of the twelve caves in Bushan Garden. The labyrinth design makes it difficult for you to find all the zodiac signs.
Admission: 30 yuan/person.
Opening hours: 07: 00- 18: 30, free admission after 19: 30, and closing at 2 1: 30 in the evening.
Address: No.7 Gangzai Houlu
Tel: 0592-2063744 2063722
3. Hao Yue Garden
Hao Yue Garden looks like a garden, but it is actually more like Zheng Chenggong Memorial Garden. It is located in Fuding Rock Beach in the east of Gulangyu Island, and consists of beaches, rocks, green trees and pavilions.
There are giant bronze statues of Zheng Chenggong and his Ministry in the park, but what is more prominent is the giant granite statue of Zheng Chenggong standing on Fuding Rock, which is 15.7 meters high and weighs 16 17 tons. It is carved from Quanzhou white granite rich in stone, and "Quanzhou white" is one of the best.
Hao Yue Garden is not as elegant as Longzhuang Garden, but it has a magnificent momentum.
Admission: 10 yuan, free opening hours after 18: 30-19: 30.
Address: Fudingyan seaside in the east of Gulangyu Island, five minutes to the left of the ferry terminal.
Tel: 0592-206340 1, 2063930
4. International Museum of Alphabet Art
The International Printmaking Art Museum is the only large-scale and high-grade international printmaking art exhibition hall in the world. Located directly opposite Longzhuang Garden, it covers an area of nearly 600 square meters and has three floors. The first and second floors are exhibition halls, including the China Pavilion and the International Pavilion, which are displayed in five exhibition halls. There are more than 400 works from China, Japanese, Korean, Singaporean and Malaysian countries. Most of them are selected works of the 5th National Print Art Exhibition and the 8th International Print Art Exhibition in 2004, representing the highest level in the world and at home.
It doesn't matter if you don't know the art of lettering, what matters is whether you are curious or not, otherwise you will only feel bored when you go in.
Admission: 10 yuan opening hours: 08: 30-20: 00.
Address: directly opposite the gate of Xinzhuang Garden Tel: 0592-206825 1
5. Sea Paradise Structure
Located on Fujian Road, the antique-style maritime paradise structure, built in 1920, is the largest villa group in Gulangyu, including five old villas with a history of more than 80 years. This is rare in Gulangyu, which is full of foreign flavor. The gatehouse is a typical traditional style in China, with double eaves and arched cornices. The buildings on the front and back are generally ancient Greek-style columns, and the window decorations are mostly Western-style, but the walls and corners are all carved by China. The middle building is an antique palace-style building with a large roof, resting at the top of the mountain, double eaves and high corners.
The explanation of the scenic spot is free. After seeing the building, you can also listen to the elegant southern sound of Minnan ancient music and watch puppet shows. Each program lasts about 20 minutes, and the performance schedule is scrolled every half hour. There's plenty of time. It will take two hours to visit all of them. After that, you can relax in the coffee shop built in Haitian.
Admission: 60 yuan (a little expensive) Tel: 0592-25705 10.
Address: No.39 Fujian Road (behind the British Consulate)
6. Yuyuan Garden
Yu Garden is a memorial hall in memory of Dr. Lin. Lin is the founder of modern obstetrics and gynecology medicine in China. He trained and brought up a large number of medical talents in his life, personally delivered more than 50 thousand babies and treated countless gynecological patients. But he devoted his whole life to maternal and child health and the cultivation of medical talents.
The architectural layout of Yu Garden is natural. There is a white marble statue of the doctor in the park, and there is also a showroom of the doctor's life story. Comrade Deng personally planted two Aralia trees in the garden, symbolizing Dr. Lin's elegant and noble character.
Tickets: None.
Address: Fuxing Road
About tickets
At present, tickets for Gulangyu Island are divided into joint tickets and single scenic spot tickets. The coupons include five scenic spots: Sunlight Rock, Longzhuang Garden, Hao Yue Garden, Organ Museum (Bagua Building) and International Printmaking Art Museum. These five scenic spots are basically the leading scenic spots in Gulangyu, so it is worthwhile to buy a joint ticket. Most tourists, especially tour groups, only visit these places, so they can listen to the tour guide at any time. The coupon is valid for one day.
stay
The following is the approximate price of Gulangyu Hotel:
Gulangyu Yue Boutique Hotel (price: 400-720 yuan/day) Gulangyu Simple Life (price: 280-495 yuan/day)
Gulangyu territorial hotel (price: 60-488 yuan/day) Gulangyu gala hotel (price: 100-328 yuan/day)
Gulangyu Nostalgia Inn (price: 180-380 yuan/day) Gulangyu Impression Minnan Folk Inn (price: 178-308 yuan/day)
Gulangyu Sunshine 99 Hotel (price: 99-299 yuan/day) Gulangyu Cape Hotel (288-588 yuan/day)
Gulangyu travels around the sun and the moon (price: 176-428 yuan/day)
Gulangyu has an inn (price: 158—300 yuan/day) and a sea view room in Nanjing Military Region (price: 328—458 yuan/day).
Gulangyu Lufei Youth Hostel (price: 70-350 yuan/day) Gulangyu Sea Garden Hotel (price: 558- 1688 yuan/day)
Gulangyu Four Seasons Flower House (price: 170-265 yuan/day)
Below is the hotel in Zeng Cuo An Village, Huandao Road, Xiamen (near Xiamen University, near the sea).
Xiamen Dream Travel Inn (price: 46- 148 yuan/day) Xiamen ALLOGE (price: 135- 145 yuan/day)
Xiamen Southeast Northwest Inn (price: 48- 145 yuan/day) Xiamen Luoluojia Family Hotel (price: 120- 165 yuan/day)
Xiamen Xingyun Inn (price: 1 10— 150 yuan/day) Xiamen June Inn (price: 45—2 10 yuan/day)
The average temperature in Gulangyu Island is 65438 08℃, and the highest temperature is 32℃. It's hot in summer and warm in winter. It is generally above 30℃ in July and August; The temperature in winter is often lower than10℃; The annual average temperature is 265438 0℃. The sunshine is long and sunny, so Xiamen is full of flowers and trees all year round.
May to August is the rainy season. Except for the typhoon season in August, the boats at the seaside have stopped, and you can't enjoy the beautiful sea view. It's good to travel to Xiamen at other times. A thin sweater and a coat are enough in autumn and winter. If the wind is strong at the seaside, you can add an extra dress appropriately.
The best seasons to go to Gulangyu are autumn and winter.
Something you have to do.
1, let go and get lost in Gulangyu.
Gulangyu Island is very small. It only takes three or four hours to walk around the island, so small that you won't panic even if you get lost, but you will feel happy.
Don't go out if you get lost on the island. Get lost in a quiet alley or an old villa, where there are no tour groups and few tourists. Probably the occupation of many people who have been to Gulangyu Island.
Isn't it? Strolling in Gulangyu, chatting casually, or looking around, is also a kind of enjoyment away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
If it happens to be raining lightly on this day, the island that has been brushed bright by the rain will be even more charming. The crystal water drops hang under the eaves, leaves and petals. The air is filled with the fragrance of plants, which makes you lucky to see the graceful beauty of Gulangyu Island in the rain.
I like a road very much, which fully reflects the ups and downs of Gulangyu Road. Although the path on the island is complicated, most of the residents are elderly and the road signs are clear. Therefore, if you don't want to get lost, you can avoid it by being diligent or buying a map. "My hand-drawn map can never guide me in the right direction, so every time I go to find one thing with a purpose, I will find another thing because I get lost. From the first day I went to the island to leave Gulangyu today, I got lost on the island again and again in the past three days, so I stopped looking at the map. Walking in the old house and flowers, I smiled at the familiar house number, turned a corner and walked on. Sometimes you can meet interesting things when you walk aimlessly. " -He Ping's "Gulangyu Wandering 2 Sea Breeze Night" 2. Stroll the streets and listen to the piano.
Artists on the streets of Gulangyu Island, as long as you stroll through the ancient buildings of Gulangyu Island (cua, which people in Fujian coastal areas and Taiwan Province Province call home or house), will hear melodious piano sound, melodious violin sound, brisk guitar sound, beautiful and moving singing sound and the beating of waves from time to time. Whether you listen to the piano intentionally or not, go to Gulangyu, and the sound of the piano must be what you hear. Why not just accept the influence of music with an open mind?
The small Gulangyu Island is a big piano island and the cradle of musicians. There are more than 600 pianos on the island, with its own conservatory of music, concert hall, symphony orchestra, piano museum and organ museum. Among them, the concert hall is hidden between the tall century-old banyan tree and camphor tree. The garden is full of red flowers and green leaves, and the environmental atmosphere is first-class. It is an elegant music and art hall in Gulangyu.
Tracing back to the music atmosphere of Gulangyu Island, we will find that its music tradition originated from church hymns, just as European medieval music originated from the creation of religious music. From the middle of19th century, with the spread of Christianity, western music began to pour into Gulangyu, blending with its elegant living environment, creating today's music tradition in Gulangyu and cultivating a large number of outstanding musicians. Famous pianists Yin Chengzong, Xu, Xu Feiping and Xu Xing 'ai are all local products here. China's first female vocalist and conductor Zhou Shuan, vocalist, singer, bass singer Wu, famous conductor Chen Zuohuang, and so on. Bright stars rise from here.
On holidays, family concerts are often held on Gulangyu Island, and it is common for a family to perform on the same stage for three generations. The sounds of nature are flying everywhere, and the grass, trees and flowers in Gulangyu Island are all decorated with beating notes and rhythms.
Piano museum
The Piano Museum is located in the "Tingtaoxuan" in Luzhuang Garden. It simulates the keys of a piano and is full of soft piano music. The two-story museum is divided into one hall and two halls, which respectively display more than 100 pianos, including more than 40 ancient pianos collected by patriotic overseas Chinese Hu Youyi, rare and precious gold-plated pianos, the world's earliest four-corner piano and the earliest.
The museum provides explanation service,
Lecture time in Hall 1: 09: 00, 10: 00,1:00, 13: 30, 14: 30,/kloc-0.
Lecture time in Hall 2: 09: 30, 10: 30,1:30, 14: 00, 15: 00, 16: 00.
Note: Photographing is prohibited in the museum.
Tickets: There are no tickets, but you need tickets for Xinzhuang Garden to enter. The lectures and performances in the museum are free.
Opening hours: 07: 30- 19: 30.
Address: in Xinzhuang Garden
Gulangyu Concert Hall
You can walk directly to Gulangyu Concert Hall from Longtou Road, a bustling commercial street. The concert hall is hidden under the ancient camphor and banyan trees. Chamber music and classical concerts are often held irregularly all year round, and some famous musicians or professional groups often come to perform, which is also a world for many music lovers to communicate.
Admission: free.
The concert hall has rich concert performance time every weekend: 7: 30 every night.
Address:No. 1 Huangyan Road, Gulangyu, Siming District
Tel: 0592-2066730
3. Look at those century-old buildings
What makes Gulangyu beautiful is not only the island scenery, but also the world architecture that has lasted for a long time in Mika. The architecture shows the history and story of Gulangyu, and it is also a part of the beauty of Gulangyu. They exude mysterious flavor and breath of life, which reminds people of the past.
Looking at the building, as long as the door of the old house you are interested in is open, say hello to the owner in good faith and watch whatever you are allowed to see.
Such a house, you see its roof and exquisite carving, is obviously the prosperity of the people who owned it in those days. I don't know which ordinary family I live in now. Have to laugh at history.
Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Sweden, the Philippines and other countries have set up consulates on the island, founded churches, schools, hospitals, foreign firms, and built the largest number of villas, luxury houses and other residential buildings. The remaining consulates are Britain, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and so on. Most church buildings, such as Trinity Hall, Anxian Hall, Gospel Hall, Spanish Catholic Church and Concord Hall, are still in use.
Most of these buildings are low-rise quadrangle buildings. Houses are generally built with local stones or red bricks, including circular arched cloisters, clear water red brick red tiled roofs, teak floors and tiles, and exotic glass bottle lattices with railings. There are often carved Roman columns and sloping roofs, and each facade has a very different structural shape.
In addition, a large number of overseas Chinese who went abroad to make a living and returned to their hometowns in the early days chose first-class building materials and construction techniques to build the Palace Museum. There are many styles combining Chinese and western styles around these houses, and they are proud of imitating foreign houses. The plane layout is basically local, and the appearance is often eclectic. Such as Lin Yutang's former residence, Dafu Land, Damistake, Jingualou Building, Stone, Fanpo Building, Villa, Family Villa, Guancai Building, Yangjiayuan, etc., have all become meaningful and symbolic buildings on Gulangyu Island.
Jingualou
Jingualou Building, built in 1922, has the roof shape of Byzantine, which is the characteristic of Gulangyu architecture. Externally, the traditional decoration technology in China is adopted, and the interior is decorated with a combination of Chinese and western styles. China has traditional rooms, a central hall, western fireplaces and wide corridors. Its architectural gatehouse is the most exquisite and unique, divided into two floors. It is one of the unique gatehouses in Gulangyu architecture. It adopts China's method of resting on the top of the mountain, with double eaves and upturned corners, dressed like a city gate, with blue sky hanging high and full of style.
Address: No.99 Quanzhou Road Tickets: None
Sanyitang
1934 western-style Christian church designed and built by China people. Sanyitang's architecture is very unique, with a rare cross shape. On the yellow tile roof with drainage on all sides, there is an octagonal bell tower in the middle, with a cross towering into the sky at the top. The red wall is decorated with smooth triangular lines, twelve doors are open on all sides, and sixteen windows are extremely wide, which has practical characteristics of ventilation, lighting and evacuation.
On the13m-span wall with the same length and width in the hall, the roof truss without column steel beam arch coupons and the ceiling with ceiling board are skillfully used, which looks tall and magnificent, brings extremely scientific and ideal sound effects and becomes the most distinctive feature of Sany Hall.
Address: 7 1 Anhai Road Tickets: None.
Note: On Sunday, there will be the most distinctive choir in Gulangyu singing hymns in Minnan, and believers will recite the Minnan version of the Bible, which is not available anywhere else.
4. Have a quiet night and a cool morning.
Many people like to watch the sunset in Gulangyu and spend an afternoon on the beach.
The mood of watching the sunset is always relaxed, slow, pleasant and dispensable. It will naturally take several hours for the sun to slowly fall into the sea. Meihua Beach or Houwan Beach in Wan Chai is such a good place to watch the sunset. No matter which direction you look at it, it is a beautiful picture.
But the most fascinating thing about Gulangyu is its night and morning. Gulangyu Island is so small that ordinary tourists can leave the island in a day or half. I remember asking my friend Gulangyu's itinerary in Xiamen before I went, and the answer was: Gulangyu is a large piece of land, and it is enough to visit for two or three hours. However, Gulangyu Island is not used to calculate the hiking time, but to feel its charming quiet nights and cool mornings.
Thanks to those who travel for a day or a half, Gulangyu can still remove the disturbing external material of the tourist island at night and keep it beautiful and quiet.
Lazy dogs get up early in the morning, everything settled on the island has not woken up, the rhythmic sound of the waves is even quieter, the shops are not open yet, the old people in the streets are carrying shopping baskets and wearing sneakers, and the stall owners in the vegetable market are setting up stalls to sell fresh fruits and vegetables. This is the real Gulangyu Island.
5. Lazy sunbathing with cats in Gulangyu.
Have you ever seen an island full of cats? People in Gulangyu say cats are lucky, don't you think? Lucky or not, the cat on Gulangyu Island is the laziest. Who says laziness is not a noble attitude towards life? Therefore, in Gulangyu, it is necessary to be so lazy.
Swimming in Gulangyu Island in warm winter will always meet a cat swimming like you in a Gu Xiang. They may not walk faster than you, a tourist, and even when you walk past them, they never panic.
The most famous cat on the island is Zhang Sanfeng. Excerpt from NAYA's introduction to Zhang Sanfeng: Zhang Sanfeng, born at the end of 2005, was abandoned for some reason after his birth. The garbage can in a community in Qianpu, Xiamen almost died young, and Miss Yan Ping, a cat lover, found it and rescued it. He lived in the office building of a foreign company in Xiamen CITIC Building for a period of time, and lived and studied in the office building with several other foreign cats (including Fanta's father, Iranian tiger-headed Persian cat). From March to July, 2006, Fanta and I lived on the classic top floor of Hexiang West Road, and learned to climb the eaves of more than a dozen high-rise buildings. In July, 2006, I came to NaHosta, Gulangyu Island to study the war on terrorism with rodents. Unexpectedly, I never learned meow again. On average, I climbed a tree more than ten meters in front of Naya to catch sparrows for entertainment. After several corporal punishments, I changed my fun to fishing in a goldfish bowl in Naya's yard.