Xiammen Gulangyu, One of the Five Most Beautiful Urban Areas in China

Gulangyu in Xiamen, Suzhou OldTown, Historic Center of Macau, as well as Badaguan of Qingdao and Shichaihai in Beijing are known as “top 5 China’s most beautiful urban areas”.

Gulangyu is a small island with an area of 1.78 square, which faces the Xiamen City across the sea. The strait between Xiamen and Gulangyu is called Lujiang River. With beautiful and diverse landscape, Gulangyu is a national key scenic spot which enjoys the excellent reputations of “Garden on the Sea”, “International Architecture Exhibition” as well as “the Island of Piano”. With the winding coastline, the island of Gulangyu is surrounded by natural bathing beach. The extremely fine stone could let loose your imagination and the undulating hills on the island are well-spaced.

The streets on Gulangyu are short, criss-cross, clean and quiet. Surrounded by the greet tress, the small island has fresh air and the flowers blooming like a piece of brocade. The red roofs and green trees enhance each other’s beauty. Row upon row of buildings nestles at the tropical and subtropical forests.

Gulangyu is known as the “Cradle of Musicians” and the “PianoIsland”. On this small island, there are over 600 pianos, with its density ranking first in the whole country. As long as you ramble at every corner of the island, you can hear the melodious piano, violin, guitar sounds as well as the moving and songs under the beat of waves. In general, music has become a special brilliant landscape of Gulangyu.

The weather here is spring all the year round. The peak – Sunlight Rock is the symbol of Xiamen. Besides the Sunlight Rock, there are also many scenic spots, such as Shuzhuang Garden, Haoyue Park as well as Yu Garden.

As there are numerous natural landscapes in the island, the local government has taken a series of effective measures to protect this national level tourist attraction. Except the development and construction of the tourist attraction, any other factories or environmental-unfriendly buildings are not allowed to increase here. The most features one is that you can not see any other motor vehicles or even hear the noisy of vehicles and horses except the battery cars round about the island. It is because that there are the strict requirements. Any motor vehicles are not allowed running on the island in accordance with the rule. Therefore, when you walk in the clean and elegant trail of Gulangyu, you’ll feel that it is truly a natural beautiful island.

Tours to Xiamen China will help you to deeply explore the beautiful city of Xiamen and charming GulangyuIsland.