Lizhiwan (Litchi Bay), Pantang
A Xiguan water town of "a bay of spring water green, lychees red on both banks": Lizhiwan Creek has been a famed Liwan sight since the Qing dynasty, when wealthy Xiguan merchants of the late Qing and early Republic built garden villas here (Xiao Huafang Zhai, the Small Painted Boat Studio, among them); before the 2010 Asian Games the culverted creek was uncovered again and the waterfront restored.
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A Xiguan water town of "a bay of spring water green, lychees red on both banks": Lizhiwan Creek has been a famed Liwan sight since the Qing dynasty, and around the late Qing and early Republican years wealthy Xiguan merchants built garden villas here (Xiao Huafang Zhai, the Small Painted Boat Studio, among them); before the 2010 Asian Games the culverted creek was uncovered again and the waterfront brought back. Pantang Wuyue preserves Guangzhou's most complete millennium-old village fabric, and Pantang water-chestnut cake and water-chestnut juice are famous local specialties; Liwanhu Park sits beside Wen Pagoda (Wenta), and the Dragon Boat Festival "dragon-boat scene" of caiqing (plucking the green) and zhaojing (welcoming visiting boats) is a provincial-level intangible-heritage event — a living scene of old Guangzhou's "water city" memory.
Getting there: Metro Line 5, Zhongshanba Station
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