Lingshui 陵水
Lingshui city guide — sights, tickets and getting around.
Top things to do in Lingshui
Ranked picks — headline sights first, with tickets and timing at a glance.
1 Qingshui Bay
AttractionQingshui Bay in Lingshui has a 12 km stretch of long, fine beach: the sand is fine and pure with a high silica content, and squeaks when walked on or dragged through, earning it the name "the singing beach"
2 Nanwan Monkey Island
AttractionChina's only island-type macaque nature reserve: more than 2,000 wild macaques live on the Nanwan Peninsula, and visitors can get up close with the monkeys in the interaction zone
3 Boundary Island
AttractionAn island on the Lingshui–Wanning border: Niuling Ridge on the island's north side is the natural climate dividing line between northern and southern Hainan Island, where the curious phenomenon of "rain north of the ridge, sunshine to the south" often occurs
4 Qingshui Bay Tourist Area · Sea Art Center
AttractionLeisure amenities of the Qingshui Bay seaside resort belt: beach music festivals plus sailing and paddleboarding experiences run on a regular basis
5 Diaoluo Mountain
AttractionA sector of the Tropical Rainforest National Park in southeastern Hainan Island: the Fengguoshan waterfall cluster has a total drop of approx. 150 m and is celebrated as "Hainan's No. 1 waterfall"
6 Coconut Island
AttractionA pristine coconut-palm island at the mouth of the Lingshui River: coconut palms cast sweeping reflections across the channels, and a boat ride through feels like drifting into a tropical gallery
7 Li'an International Education Pilot Zone
AttractionThe Hainan Lingshui Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone is a Belt and Road education cooperation platform, hosting a number of Sino-foreign joint education institutions
8 Gaofeng Hot Springs
AttractionLingshui Nanping Hot Springs Resort: open-air hot spring pools embraced by tropical rainforest, famed for Li ethnic medicinal baths — Li herbs steeped in the water are an extension of Hainan's traditional Li medicine
9 Tanka Seafood Stalls
Attraction'Floating restaurants' on the Tanka fish rafts of Xincun Port: ingredients are caught fresh from the harbor — mud crabs, flower crabs, sea-urchin steamed egg and grouper, steamed or blanched Tanka-style
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