Ask a QuestionHaikou, the first stop for the visitors coming to Hainan Province, has the excellent environment labeled by its sunshine, sands, seawater, green color and the fresh air as well as the tropical landscape. Top China Travel would like to introduce some of the Best places to visit in Haikou, to help you find your way to explore the unspoiled beauty of this charming and mysterious area. Where to visit in Haikou? Travel with us, just let us to be your guide and accompany with you to discover the charms between tropical botanical garden and sands.
Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden, built in 1957 and covers an area of 0.4 square kilometers, is a good place to get touch with exotic experience. It possesses more than 1200 plant species such as coffee, pepper, cocoa, and dragon trees. It is regarded as a hot destination and furthermore dedicated to issues related to botany and environmental protection in cooperation with agricultural authorities in China.
Featuring tropical monsoon climate all year round, Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is suitable for tourism and thus evaluated as AAAA-class tourism spot and model of agricultural tourism. This garden domesticates tropical plants around the world and thus embodies a harmonious picture with plants. Besides, a canteen is accessible to provide visitors many sorts of beverages produced by the Garden itself.
Hairui Tomb is the key national cultural protection unit, as well as one of the "Eight Sceneries" of Haikou. It has become a famous place of interest known as "Yue Dong Zheng Qi" (the integrity and upright). Hairui, the famous official in Ming dynasty, was born in Qiongshan and was known as "Hai Qingtian" (which means incorruptible official).
Hairui Tomb, built in 1589, has an area of 7.4 acre and all the architectures around this tomb form a solemn, simple and unsophisticated style. In the middle, there is a high honorific archway on which written four eye-striking scarlet Chinese characters "Yue Dong Zheng Qi". The grave path was paved with granites and there are three memorials on the way. On the sides of the path leading to the tomb, there stands stone statue shaped like sheep, horses, lions, tortures, and human beings.
The Mt. Wuzhi (Five Fingers Mountain) is one of the symbols in Hainan Island. As the highest mountain in Hannan Island, Mt. Wuzhi is the main scenic spot in this national reserve, which enjoys an international fame for few decades.
The peaks of this mountain are waving like saw-tooth and the shape is like five fingers, this is how the Wuzhi Mountain (Five Fingers Mountain in Chinese) got its name. Meanwhile Mt. Wuzhi is also the kingdom of precious animals and birds, there are various animals such as reptiles, birds and animals. When visitors travel Mt. Wuzhi, you will see animals come out to look for food or play with each other now and then.
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