What attractions are there in Chaoshan?

Chaozhou City is a national historical and cultural city and an important birthplace of Chaozhou culture. It is known as "Zoulu on the Seaside", "Famous State in Linghai", and "The Capital of Lingdong". The city has a total area of ??3614. Square kilometers, it governs Xiangqiao District and two counties: Chao'an and Raoping. The total population is 2.58 million, and there are about 2.3 million Chaozhou overseas Chinese, Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan living overseas. Chaozhou woodcarving is one of the two major woodcarving systems in China, and Chaozhou is also the main base for China's ceramic exports.

1. Chaoshan seaside attractions

1. Nan'ao Island. Known as a beautiful maritime oasis, it is located at the junction of the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan. It is only 11.8 nautical miles from the Shantou Special Economic Zone in Guangdong Province, 160 nautical miles from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to the east, 97 nautical miles from Xiamen to the north, and 180 nautical miles from Hong Kong to the southwest. It is located here The center of the three major port cities, it is on the verge of the main international route in the Western Pacific. The location is very advantageous. Since ancient times, Nan'ao has been a necessary stopover and transit station for trade along the southeastern coast. As early as the Ming Dynasty, Nan'ao had been known as the "Maritime Mutual Trade".

Nanao Island is located next to Nan'ao Town, with Qiniang Mountain in the back and the sea in front. It is shaped like a half moon and as soft as a girl. It not only enjoys the aura of the beautiful landscape, but also enjoys the bright sunshine on the sea. Embraced by green mountains and more dependent on each other than water, this beautiful Nan'ao Bay has been nurtured. There are 1,400 species of tropical and subtropical plants growing on it, and many wild animals live here. There is a Bird Island near the main island, which is a migratory bird nature reserve. Nan'ao Island has unique tourism resources, port resources and aquatic resources, more than 50 cultural relics and historic sites, more than 30 temples, 66 large and small harbors, and 50,000 square kilometers of fishing grounds that can be developed. Famous scenic spots: Songjing, Qing'ao Bay, Treasure Island, Zongbing Mansion, Nanshan Temple, Yungai Temple, Pingshan Rock, wind farm, etc.

South Australia's tourism resources have the characteristics of a three-dimensional intersection of "sea, mountains, history and temples". The area of ??beaches available for tourism reaches more than 2 million square meters. Among them, Qing'ao Bay, known as "Oriental Hawaii", is a rare shallow sea beach in my country. It has white sand and clean sea water. It is one of the two A-level bathing beaches in Guangdong Province. One of the beaches. South Australia has a long cultural history and numerous cultural relics. Currently, more than 50 cultural relics and more than 30 temples have been discovered. Nan'ao Island has a pleasant climate, spring-like weather all year round, contrasting mountains and seas, and beautiful scenery. It is an ideal place to build an international tourism and vacation base. There are 50,000 square kilometers of fishing grounds available for development near Nan'ao Island, which are rich in high-quality and high-end aquatic products such as grouper, lobster, crab, squid, and more than 1,300 varieties of fish, shrimp, shells, and algae. The sea area along the island with a water depth of less than 10 meters covers an area of ??165.7 square kilometers. The water quality is good and the plankton population is large, and large-scale marine aquaculture can be developed. At present, there are more than 5,000 sea cage cages, and the cultivation of abalone, sea pearls and shellfish and algae has begun to take shape.

2. Longhu Beach, Nanbin, Shantou City, is close to the South Pacific. It has picturesque scenery, pleasant climate, elegant environment, birds singing and fragrance of flowers. It is known as the "natural oxygen village". The resort has beaches and water sports such as volleyball, football, diving, speedboats, beautiful golden beaches, kilometers of coastline, romantic and elegant garden villas in European architectural style, and complete leisure and entertainment facilities, forming a tourist resort. An excellent place for sightseeing, leisure vacation, and business negotiations.

3. Shanwei Red Bay. It is located in the eastern part of Shanwei City, that is, the Junzhelang Peninsula where Red Bay and Jieshi Bay meet in eastern Guangdong. It borders Jieshi Bay to the east and Red Bay to the south. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides. Maritime transportation is 70 nautical miles to Shantou in the east and 82 nautical miles to Hong Kong in the west. By land transportation, it is 200 kilometers to Shantou in the east, 210 kilometers to Shenzhen and 320 kilometers to Guangzhou in the west. Red Bay, as its name suggests, has red soil and blue water. However, the most attractive place should be the word "bay". Because "bay" should usually be quiet and romantic. Walking onto the beach, the soft and gentle sand is quartz sand without impurities. It is so uniform that it seems to have been carefully screened by the divine hand of nature. When you step on it, your feet will not sink. You will only feel soft and warm, making you want to remove the constraints of shoes and socks and walk barefoot on this soft beach. Get closer, and the pure and transparent sea water rolls up onto the beach and onto your feet, as if to soothe you away from the fatigue of the journey.

4. Beishan Bay. It is located in the northeast of Dahao Peninsula in Shantou City, south of the Bay Bridge, and close to the outlet of Shantou Port. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the mountains are gentle, and it faces the South China Sea in the east. The coastline is about 4.5 kilometers, and there is an arc-shaped bay about 2 kilometers long in the middle. The seabed is flat and open, and there are many natural rocks. Looking from afar, the clear water and blue sky are the same color, and the sunset and the Bay Bridge are flying together. Looking closer, there are a few fishing boats, scattered flowers and trees, and slanting shadows of greenery. Beishan Bay has a unique geographical location, and experts at home and abroad agree that it is a natural treasure for tourism and vacation.

In 1994, Beishan Bay Tourist Resort was rated as a provincial tourist resort. Beishan Bay Central Bathing Beach has a unique advantage among several bathing beaches in the city: it is surrounded by the seashore, and the big waves coming from the sea become relatively peaceful when blocked by the arms of giants at both ends of the bay. Therefore, the sea surface of Beishan Bay is calmer than CITIC Longhu Beach. For ordinary tourists, it is indeed a good place for swimming. The swimming pool here is particularly open, with a distance of more than a thousand meters from the beach to the sand-proof net. Those who know how to swim really have endless fun swimming in such wide and calm waters. Swimming here will really give you the pride of "Confidence that if you live for two hundred years, you will be like the water hitting three thousand miles".

5. Laiwu.

Located on the southern coast of Chenghai, Shantou, it is the ferry port leading to Nan'ao Island. There is a seaside swimming pool and seaside promenade nearby. There are hills on both sides of the bathing beach, forming a natural breakwater, weakening the bay and making it most suitable for swimming. The two conical hills on the seaside and the surrounding islands are worshiped as sea gods. Legend has it that a disciple of the Phoenix Fairy saw the fisherman being harmed by the fish spirit, so he secretly went down to earth to eliminate the harm for the people. Therefore, he was punished by the Jade Emperor and executed, and his body was exposed. The seaside turned into Laiwu Island. Dongyu is her head, a nearby red-brown reef is her blood, the two mountains are her breasts, Nanyu and Beiyu are her clogs, which the locals call "Xiangtian Beauty", and there is a goddess temple nearby. Pay homage to him in the harem. There is also a fort built on the mountain in the 56th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, guarding the Shantou Bay. It has now become a historic site visited by tourists.

6. Dacheng Bay. Located in the northeast corner of Raoping County, Chaozhou City. It starts from Gongkou, Zhao'an County, Fujian Province in the east, and ends at Jilongjiao, Raoping County, Guangdong Province in the west. The area is about 32.5 square kilometers. It is named after Dacheng Township, Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province to the north. The mouth of the bay faces southeast, with a mouth width of 11.7 kilometers, a depth of 3.5 kilometers, an arc length of 16.2 kilometers, an area of ??32.5 kilometers, and a water depth of 2.5-9.5 meters. The bottom material is sand and silt mud. Dongxi and Xixi flow into the river through Shawan and have irregular semi-diurnal tides. Dacheng Bay is shaped like a half-moon, with water and sky of the same color, vast mist and white sails, which is like a picture of a fairyland on earth. Huang Zhao of the Ming Dynasty wrote "Eight Scenes of Fengcheng" in "The Blue Sea and the Sky": "Looking southeast from the water to the seaside, the waves are boundless, Zhurong Yinu Mountain is turning snow, and the hurricane mother is in the beginning of the waves hitting the sky. At sunset, fish and dragons are rising, and mist is rising. The stars are falling in the night, and the lake is so vast that it is difficult to find water, but the smile is like a bloody whip."

7. Golden Lion Bay. Located in the southwest of Zhelin Town, Raoping County, Chaozhou City, it has a 3.2-kilometer-long coastline, large forests, and caves in Qitou Mountain. It has the characteristics of long coastline, gentle slope, good sand quality, clear water quality, little change in depth between high and low tides, and numerous caves. It has fresh air, green trees, and mountains and rivers. There is a bathing beach in the resort. The swimming area has flat water, clear water and few waves. It is an ideal swimming place. There are also yachting, surfing and other marine activities. It is equipped with hotels, restaurants, quaint and elegant holiday cabins and other facilities in the shade of greenery. The natural caves in Qitou Mountain are a good place for exploration. There is a road leading to the town. Golden Lion Bay Beach is calm, with clear water and a vast beach, covered by the green shade of a protective forest. Especially on a night when the moon is white and the wind is clear, it is a natural pleasure to enjoy the moon while swimming.

8. Dongshawan. It is located on the seaside of Donggang Village, Haishan Town, Raoping County, Chaozhou. The mouth of the bay faces Nan'ao Island. The mouth is 4 kilometers wide and the hinterland is 1.3 kilometers deep. The bay is half-moon shaped. The bottom of the bay is gentle, the water is clear, and the 4-kilometer-long beach has fine white sand. A 3-kilometer-long casuarina windbreak forest belt is planted on the beach. It is a natural and excellent beach and is known as "Oriental Hawaii".

9. Huilai. The bathing beach is about 3,000 meters long with soft sand, clear water and gentle beach, fresh air and elegant environment. You can watch the sea, sunrise, moon and escape from the scorching heat. Purely natural and pollution-free, it is one of the rare bathing beaches in Huilai County and even Guangdong Province. It has beautiful scenery, watching the sea, listening to the waves, and sipping wine. The mountains, sea, and sky are all one color, which can satisfy your all-round audio-visual experience and experience the perfect combination of man and nature. The beautiful golden beach and the coastline stretching for several kilometers have become a new star in seaside tourism in Huilai County, Guangdong Province.

2. Food and accommodation

1. Food.

(1) Rice roll - It is said that Chaozhou rice roll was passed over from Guangzhou more than ten years ago, but it is quite different. Since Chaozhou people have the taste of Chaozhou people, the rice rolls will naturally have new achievements. Take a piece of flour dough, beat an egg on it, add minced pork, diced radish, shredded xianggu shreds, add chopped cabbage slices or bean sprouts or bamboo shoots, then pour a layer of sesame paste and marinated soup on top. The taste is really nostalgic. Same rice rolls, different taste.

(2) Spring pancake - the skin is crispy, the filling is salty and fragrant. When you bite it, you will feel the fragrance in your mouth and increase your appetite. It is not only a favorite food of Chaozhou people in all seasons, but also a popular customer. A must-try famous snack.

(3) Pig trotter pen. It has a crispy taste and texture and is a favorite snack among Chaozhou children. Because it is in the shape of a circle and looks like it was cut from a pig's trotter, people euphemistically call it a pig's trotter.

(4) When you go to Nan'ao Island, of course you have to go for the seafood! The water in Nan'ao is rich in nutrients and has a lot of plankton. A unique phenomenon in the Nan'ao Sea Area is that the biological population structure is very complex. It can be said to be a rare world museum of marine life.

In mid-winter, you can catch mackerel, pomfret, snapper, grouper, hundreds of kilograms of sunfish, nutritious and delicious swordfish and tuna here. Sometimes, the rare Chinese sturgeon and multi-bearded carp can also be caught.

In summer, floating fish such as squid, cuttlefish, red snapper, and balang are abundant.

Shellfish: Oriental snails, tengu snails, mud clams, clams, flower clams, abalone, pearls...

There are also all kinds of water-based soft fish, pine squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. , the skin is sweet and the meat is sweet, tender and delicious.

There are 8 kinds of lobsters in China, and there are 6 kinds here, including Chinese lobster, variegated lobster, splendid lobster, dense hairy lobster, etc. All kinds of shrimps in Chinese waters are also available here.

Among the algae, seaweed, kelp, algae, gracilaria, seaweed, reef membrane, sargassum, sargassum... are all available.

2. Accommodation.

Chaozhou star hotels include: Chaozhou Guest House, Jinjiacheng Hotel, Chaozhou Jinlong Hotel, Magnolia Hotel, Chaozhou Hotel, Chunguang Hotel, and Jinman Hotel.

Ordinary hotels include: Overseas Chinese Building, Chaoan Hotel, Raoping Hotel, and Jinye Hotel.

3. Transportation

Nan'ao Island has convenient transportation, with a 68-kilometer ring road and convenient maritime routes. There are wheel ferries, high-speed passenger ships, and direct buses to and from Shantou, Chenghai, Laiwu, and Rao every day. equally. The island has complete transportation facilities and all scenic spots are open to traffic. The ferry from Nan'ao to Laiwu Pier runs every two hours. There are three shuttle buses a day from Shantou Bus Terminal to Nan'ao Island, departing at 8:20, 12:00 and 14:00 respectively.

There are three buses from Shantou Bus Terminal directly to Nan'ao Bus Station every day, with departure times at 8:20 am, 12 noon and 14:00 pm; in addition, you can also ferry from Laiwu Pier to Changshanwei Pier on Nan'ao Island. Transportation fee: From Shantou City to Laiwu Pier, the taxi fare is 35 to 40 yuan, without a meter. Rent a van to travel around the island: 50 yuan/person (usually 6 to 7 people, you can negotiate for more people).