The Hulishan Fortress Scenic Area receives an average of millions of Chinese and foreign tourists each year, and has become a business card and window for Xiamen city. It is an important tourist attraction and patriotic education base in Xiamen.
If you take your child to Xiamen, the first stop can go to Zhongshan Road, the second stop to Gulangyu, and the third stop to Hulishan Fortress. The Hulishan Fortress is one of the children’s favorite places. The transportation is convenient. The lush trees on the mountain will let you feel very cool. Walking along the steps, you can see the introduction of the Krupp cannon and the fort. The scenic spot is not particularly large, and there are many of the cannons left in the past, as well as the performance of the artillery, to let the children know how the cannons of the past were launched. Here, you also can see a large banyan tree that is a single tree there, and you can see the Golden Gate on the fort. Tickets for the Hulishan Fortress Scenic Area are not expensive, as adults need 25 yuan/person, and children need half of the price. The greening of the scenic spot is very good, and it is especially good to see the scenery and learn the knowledge in Hulishan Fortress Scenic Area.
Hulishan Fortress Scenic Area as a base for patriotic education, its presentation is very interesting. There are also 4D cinemas and phantom imaging theaters. If you can get up early, you can catch up with the welcoming ceremony at 8:30 in the morning.
There are two Red Army artillery clearing exercise performances every day on 10:00 a.m. and 16:00 in the afternoon, reappearing the scene of the Qing soldiers performing the red rifle, which is quite shocking.
The most worthwhile highlight to see in the Hulishan Fortress Scenic Area is the imported Knub anti-aircraft gun. It features very punk style, and it is mechanical and exquisite. It is really a true portrayal of the country defense.
If you spend two days playing in the Wuyi Mountains, here are some tips for your itinerary there:
For the day 2, just get up early in the morning, go out at 8 o’clock from the north gate, enter the north gate of the scenic spot, take a shuttle bus to Huxiao Rock, which has two routes of the mountaineering and going downhill. After going down the HuXiao Rock, go straight to the first line sky to have a visit. For the bamboo rafting experience at noon, it is recommended spending 2 hours, then in the afternoon, take a visit to the Dahongpao and Water Curtain Cave.
Shanghai Zoo, formerly known as Xijiao Park, was founded in 1954. As the name card of Shanghai’s century-old history, it is one of the top ten national zoos in China and one of the second largest city zoos in China. The Shanghai Zoo, located at No. 2381 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai, is adjacent to Metro Line 10 and covers an area of 743,000 square meters. It has more than 400 species of animals on display and the houses that feeds the animals to display has 47,237 square meters.
Shanghai Zoo, formerly known as Xijiao Park, was founded in 1954. As the name card of Shanghai’s century-old history, it is one of the top ten national zoos in China and one of the second largest city zoos in China. The Shanghai Zoo, located at No. 2381 Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai, is adjacent to Metro Line 10 and covers an area of 743,000 square meters. It has more than 400 species of animals on display and the houses that feeds the animals to display has 47,237 square meters.
In recent years, Shanghai Zoo has set up a city eco-zoo as its goal, and gradually transformed and built a visually accessible ecological animal exhibition area, so that visitors can feel like that they are in nature and enjoy the beauty of wildness. Since the opening of the zoo, the Shanghai Zoo has received nearly 160 million of tourists from the initial simple visits to the comprehensive park with four functions of entertainment, animal knowledge, scientific and technological research and wildlife protection. Featuring beautiful garden landscape, wonderful wildlife world, ecological wildlife exhibition area, harmony between people and animals, Shanghai Zoo will leave visitors with beautiful memories and love for nature.
Shanghai Wild Animal Park is home to more than 200 species of rare wild animals such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, golden takins, pheasants, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, white rhinoceros and cheetahs, and there are more than 10,000 species. The park is divided into two major visiting areas: the car entry zone and the pedestrian zone.
The 88-story sightseeing hall of Jinmao Tower covers an area of 1,520 square meters and a height of 340.1 meters. The decoration of the sightseeing hall is made of imported natural marble, of which the thickness of the wall stone is only 3 mm. The glass curtain wall of the Jinmao Tower offers you a wide view so that you can overlook the urban scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River and the magnificent scenery of the Yangtze River estuary. Here, you can admire the wonderful sunrise and sunset, and shake hands with the ever-changing blue sky and white clouds.
The Jinmao Tower of Shanghai is in the prime location of Lujiazui in Pudong. It is also known as the kitchen three-piece set with the Oriental Pearl and the Shanghai Center. The Jinmao Tower has eighty-eight floors and the top is the sightseeing hall. The middle part of building is the living room. When you see the interior of the Jinmao Tower while living in the room there, it is still very characteristic. The room is outside in a circle. The interior is a deep patio, a spiral design from top to bottom, which is very tall and very stylish. And it is golden-gold color, and high-end atmosphere has a very good view here. Through the all-round transparent glass windows, the Bund, the World Architecture, the Oriental Pearl, and the adjacent World Financial Center and Shanghai Tower are all visible.
The Oriental Pearl TV Tower is a landmark in Shanghai, and almost every visitor to Shanghai will come here to have a visit. It is awesome to reach the 279-meter two-story ball and overlook the most beautiful bends that Huangpu Road has crossed. The Shanghai Exhibition Hall on the second floor tells about the changes in modern Shanghai and is very helpful in understanding Shanghai’s past.
The most worthwhile reason to visit the Shanghai World Financial Center is that it is free of charge during your birthday. You can bring your ID card on your birthday to view the scenery during the daytime in this year, then view the night scene at the next year, which will be very interesting. And when you go there, you can also walk along with Lujiazui to enjoy yourself during your trip in Shanghai. In addition, when taking the elevator of the Shanghai World Financial Center, the staff will tell you that it reaches the 94th floor in 66 seconds, but you will feel like just taking 30 second as it is really fast.
The Shanghai Gate Pavilion on the B1 floor presents Shanghai’s rapidly developing urban landscape in an advanced multimedia interactive format, with the most exquisite and realistic city model in the world.
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center covers an area of over 20,000 square meters. In the exhibition area of more than 7,000 square meters, the city’s urban planning and construction achievements of Shanghai City are fully demonstrated, and the theme of “city, people, environment and development” is fully expressed, and it is praised by the public as “the window of the city”. A large number of high-tech means are used in the Exhibition Center to fully display the blueprint for the future of Shanghai from now to the year of 2020. The entire planning Exhibition Center is highly professional, informative, interesting and artistic, and it is integrating history and the future together, to give people unlimited imagination. The majestic momentum, the large-scale exhibition style, and the modern first-class high-tech display means vividly demonstrate the vicissitudes of Shanghai, showing Shanghai’s beautiful today and a bright future.
It is said that half of Huangshan’s ticket fee belongs to that of the West Sea Grand Canyon. That is to say, if you don’t go to the West Sea Grand Canyon, you are already losing half of it. The West Sea Grand Canyon has two entrances: one is to enter from the Paiyun Pavilion, and it takes about two hours to reach the bottom of the canyon; the other is to enter from Buxian Bridge and it takes three or four hours to reach the bottom of the canyon. In addition, you can also take the subway tram up and down the canyon, one way 100 yuan. Most people will choose to enter from the Paiyun Pavilion. Those who are physically fit can walk to the bottom of the canyon and then go up by car. If you don’t want to waste money, you can return to the original position after you have finished the first ring view. There is no need to go to the bottom. Because the scenery below is almost the same, you have basically view it after finishing the first ring.
At different times, the scenery of the West Sea Grand Canyon is different. If there are few tourists, the ropeway does not need to be lined up. You can adjust the route according to your physical strength. The scenery of the West Sea Grand Canyon is superb, which is like the love song of the West Sea, and it is like a dream! It is a must-see attraction for the Yellow Mountains.