Popular Xiamen Attractions
Can't decide how to spend your time in Xiamen? Start with this list of Xiamen City's most popular attractions to get started planning your trip to Xiamen, China.
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Gulang Island
Gulang Island (aka Gulangyu Island) covers an area of 1.87 square kilometers. Sunlight Rock, the highest peak on the islet, is the symbol of Xiamen. Because the holes in the southwestern reefs hit by the waves will make sounds like beating the drum, it got its name Gulang Island, meaning "drum waves". On the island, tourists can find winding coastal lines, natural and gentle seaside bathing grounds with fine...
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Xiamen Underwater World
Located in the original Gulang Park west of the Gulangyu Ferry Wharf, the Xiamen Underwater World is one of the largest aquariums with the most characteristics in China, setting two world's records and 10 national records. The Xiamen Underwater World, looks like a Crystal Palace in blue color. It covers an area of 175,000 square meters, and its floorage area totals 7,500 square meters. The Crystal Palace is home to over...
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Xiamen University
Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, a famous overseas Chinese patriot, who was acclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong as "the banner of the overseas Chinese and the glory of the nation." It is the first university founded by an overseas Chinese in China's modern education history, as well as one of the key cross-century high-level universities in China. With an area of nearly 1.46 million square...
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Jimei University
Jimei University was invested to found by Mr. Tan Kah Kee. During the years from 1913 when the first primary school was founded in Jimei to 1925. Mr. Tan Kah Kee founded a total of 121 schools in succession, ranging from the girls primary school, kindergarten teachers' school, girls' normal school, normal school, middle school to the senior training schools, such as aquatic products, navigation, agriculture, forest, comme...
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South Putuo Temple
Lying at the foot of Wulao Peak in the south of Xiamen Island, it is a famnous temple in South Fujian, as well as in China. The temple backs on to a group of exquisite peaks and is adjacent to Xiamen University. The South Putuo Temple was first constructed in the Tang Dynasty, and was destroyed time and again in the following dynasties. In the 23rd year of the Kangxi reign (1651) of the Qing Dynasty, it was rebuilt again...
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Gulangyu Piano Museum
Located in the Hall of Roaring Tides in Shuzhuang Garden, Gulangyu Piano Museum covers an area of nearly 1,000 square meters. It is the only museum in China displaying various kinds of antique pianos from different countries in the world. All the pianos in the museum were donated by Hu Youyi, a collector of pianos who is a native of Gulang Island and now resides in Australia, including nearly 100 precious pianos and over...
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Shuzhuang Garden
Shuzhuang Garden is a small garden on Gulang Island. It is a private villa first constructed in 1913 by Lin Erjia, a wealthy businessman from Taiwan. Shuzhuang Garden is known for its well-conceived layout and borrowed scenes. The designer cleverly adopted the hiding, borrowing and ingenious methods to design the garden, making man-made structures and natural scenery well blended in good harmony, and enabling visitors...
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Overseas Chinese Museum
Located at 493 South Siming Road in Xiamen, the Overseas Chinese Museum was established in 1956 by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, a famous leader of overseas Chinese. It is the first specialized museum in China founded with the funds raised by overseas Chinese to display the history of overseas Chinese in a systematic and all-round way. With an area of 60,000 square meters, the museum has a six-story main building built with white...