Haikou 海口

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Nanyang-style qilou arcade building complex (600+ buildings, since Sipailou Street was built in 1849), 'China Historic and Cultural Street'

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Commemorates five famous officials exiled to Hainan in the Tang and Song dynasties (Li Deyu / Li Gang / Zhao Ding / Hu Quan / Li Guang), the 'First Building of Hainan' (built in the Guangxu era, Qing dynasty), relics of Su Shi's stay in Hainan (Jiongzhuo Pavilion / Fusu Spring)

3

'Nanming Qidian' exhibition (artifacts recovered from the Huaguangjiao No. 1 shipwreck), South China Sea maritime civilization + Li textile (dragon quilt) special exhibits

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Built in the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty (1714), the setting of the story behind the Cantonese opera "Sou Shu Yuan" (Searching the Academy, with Xie Bao as headmaster), Kuixing Tower

5

Memorial sites in the hometown of Qiu Jun, the great scholar of the "Nanming Qidian" (Ming-dynasty philosopher / author of "Daxue Yanyi Bu"), and upright official Hai Rui; Hai Rui's tomb park is separately on Qiuhai Avenue (approx. CNY 30)

6

China's only tropical island-type wildlife and botanical park (drive-through carnivore zone and walking zone), giraffes / giant panda house

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Quaternary volcanic cluster of northern Hainan (Ma'anling crater at 222.8 m elevation), tropical rainforest "green cave" at the crater bottom, basalt stone-house village (Rongtang Village)

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Coconut groves, rice paddies and picking orchards

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Haikou's largest public beach (6 km coconut-lined strip), BBQ garden and sea-viewing platform

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Sailing and windsurfing training base, a classic old Haikou bathing beach

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Haikou's largest open tropical seaside eco park (its 'seaside Central Park'), cycling + kites + sunset glow

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Lawn sea views beside the Haikou Bay Performing Arts Center (with the MAD-designed Wormhole Library, a viral photo spot)

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Opened in 2021 as 'Haikou Xiaodao', monolithic cast-concrete organic form (daylight through the openings), public reading + coffee

14

1942 Republican-era Street / Nanyang Tide district (1930s Southeast Asian street scenes), a real-scene film and TV shooting location

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China's first mangrove nature reserve (3,337 hectares, a 'forest on the sea'), boat rides through mangrove channels, Qukou seafood

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China's most concentrated, best-preserved contiguous tropical rainforest (sole habitat of the Hainan gibbon); hiking on Wuzhi Mountain (1,867m, Hainan's highest peak)