Yuexiu Park is the largest comprehensive park in Guangzhou city, which is considered one of eight sights since the Yuan dynasty. The park features the style of the Lingnan area, the natural landscapes and cultural heritage perfectly coexist. A lot of visitors will come to the park to exercise daily, have a leisurely walk in the verdant forest, or join the hilarious flower show held in each spring and autumn.

What’s to see

Five Rams Statue

In the legendary story, five Fairies riding the rams to Guangzhou and give grain to starved people to plant, however, the five rams turned into stones. Five Rams Statue is the symbol of Guangzhou city. It was built in 1959 and carved by over 130 pieces of granite with 11 meters high, showing different expressions on the face. In the middle, the goat looks forward and holds the grain in the mouth, surrounded by two small goats snuggled up to two mature goats, reflecting love and peace and making people touched by the statue. Now we called Guangzhou as Ram City because of this beautiful legend.

Zhenhai Tower

Zhenhai Tower, also called Five Storey Tower, was praised at No. 1 beautiful landscapes in the Lingnan area. Built in 1380 during the Ming dynasty, it’s 28 meters high and 31 meters wide, boasting as the imposing and ethnic ancient building. You can climb to the top of Zhenhai Tower to have a bird’s view of the whole Guangzhou city and Pearl River. Now it changed its name to Guangzhou Museum which uses for storing historical relics and holding exhibitions.

Sun Yat-sen Monument

Located on the top of Guanyin Mountain, Sun Yat-sen Monument is built in 1929 by famous architect Lv Yanzhi, in honor of democratic revolutionist Mr. Sun. You need to climb 498 steps to reach the top to enjoy the monument which is made by granite, with 37 meters high, carving the last will of Sun Yat-sen, encouraging Chinese people to fight for the right of freedom and equality. On the base, it carved 26 stone rams to represent the Ram City-Guangzhou.

Ancient City Wall of Ming Dynasty

On the back of Sun Yat-sen Monument, there is an 1100-meter-long ancient city wall hiding in the forest, the only city wall section of Ming dynasty in Guangzhou. It is considered as one of three ground monuments in the early Ming dynasty with a history for more than 600 years, as well as Zhenhai Tower and Bell Tower.

Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, located on the Jiefang North Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou city, is the tomb for the second king of Nanyue Kingdom of Western Han dynasty-Zhaomo, who ruled from 137 BC to 122 BC. The tomb was discovered in 1983 by accident, after being excavated, the owner of this tomb was confirmed. It is regarded as the largest and oldest color-painted stone chamber with more than 10,000 pieces of relics, reflecting the political and economic development of Nanyue Kingdom before 2000 years ago, which is the historical heritage of the Lingnan area and one of the major archaeological discoveries in China. If you are Chinese history and culture fan, don’t miss it when you travel to Guangzhou.

What to see

The Treasure of the Tomb-Golden Seal

The Golden Seal is the first imperial seal excavated in China. Many imperial seals were described as a white jade seal with tiger decoration and graved imperial seal on the bottom in the ancient document, while this seal we discovered in Nanyue King Tombs is made by golden, curving as a dragon with the graved imperial seal. It’s a special imperial seal made by a craftsman of Nanyue Kingdom independently.

Besides, the golden seal decorated with turtle graved Taizi and Youfurenxi were discovered. While Taizi golden seal is the only one excavated in China and no one never seen it in Chinese history.

Well-preserved Color-painted Stone Tomb

The tomb covers around 100 square meters, making by 750 gigantic sandstone. The inside walls were painted beautiful colorful murals decorating with clouds which is the symbol of royal court. It is the earliest painted murals of Stone Tomb found in China. 

More than 10,000 pieces of precious relics

These precious relics are the most important relics to discover the history of the Nanyue Kingdom, ranging from politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, art, etc. They are displayed in the exhibition hall, such as silverware, copperware, musical instruments, weapons, ironware, jade, pottery, etc. The incredible silk-jade garment shouldn’t be missed. It was made by more than 2,300 pieces of superior jade, connecting by red silk threads and looking so gorgeous. Most of jade garments were connected by gold, silver or copper threads, but this one used exquisite and fragile silk thread! It’s the only silk-jade garment discovered in China and you can imagine how difficult to make and well-preserved until now. Besides, you’ll have a glimpse of Maritime Silk Road history by viewing exotic relics such as silver-box, large ivory etc. Apart from that, there are ceramic pillows that were filled with natural pearls which is the first one discovered in China. It is said that pearls have the function of being calm and beautiful, even keeping evil spirits away.

History

Temple of Six Banyan Trees is situated at Liurong Road of Guangzhou city. It was built in the year of 420-479 of the Song dynasty, got rebuilt and rename frequently. The current name of Temple of Six Banyan Trees comes from Sushi, one of the reputed Chinese poets who wrote an inscription when he saw six verdant banyan trees in the temple. The temple was listed in the "Four Buddhist Sites of Guangzhou" with Guangxiao Temple, Hualin Temple and Hoi Tong Monastery. In 1997, the temple was listed as one of the ten tourist attractions of Guangzhou.

Main Attractions:

Flowery Pagoda

In the beginning, it was a quadrilateral wooden pagoda then transformed into the octangular brick-wood pagoda in order to make it stronger. The flowery pagoda with 57.6 meters high is the outstanding building in the temple. It has 9 layers when you look from the outside, while inside there are 17 storeys. You will enjoy the bird's eye view of the whole city from the top. The appearance of the pagoda is so gorgeous dotted with bells hanging on the eaves angle, which looks like a blooming bud and stamen will be the tower top. There are solemn wooden carving and bronze pillars engraved thousand Buddhist figures on the top.

Main Hall

Main Hall is on the west of flowery pagoda, with 14 meters high and covers an area of 300 square meters. There are 3 sets of bronze Buddha statues cast in 1663, each of them standing 6 meters high and weighing 10 tons with kind face and postures, now they are the biggest copper statues in Guangdong province.

Friendship Hall

Friendship Hall is on the left of Main Hall, placing a bronze statue of Sakyamuni sent by the Thai Ministry of Education in 1985, with 2.6 meters high and weighing 1 ton.

Guanyin Temple

Guanyin Temple is on the front right side of Main Hall, placing a bronze statue of Guanyin with 5 meters high and weighing 5 tons.

Other Sites

There are Hall of Heavenly Kings, Maitreya Hall, Weitou Hall, Lecture Hall, Scripture Library, Portrait of Sushi, and more than 10 sets of ancient monuments, etc.

Canton Tower

Brief Introduction

Location: Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Height: 600 meters (No.1 highest tower in China, No. 2 highest tower in the world after Burj Khalifa Tower)

Floor: 112

Completed in: 2009

Open in: 1st Oct 2010

Canton Tower is the landmark of Guangzhou city, surrounded by famous Pearl River, Zhujiang New Town, Huacheng Square and Haixinsha, covering an area of 115,000 square meters.

Guangzhou has been a port to foreigners and as the origin of Maritime Silk Road, the name was called Canton Tower instead of Guangzhou Tower.

The Canton Tower has five function areas and multiple entertain facilities.

1. Revolving Restaurant(423m)

Revolving restaurant located on 106 floors with hight 423 meters. The Xuanji Mediterranean Cafeteria is the highest revolving restaurant with a seating capacity of around 130-150 people, which has created the Guinness World Records. The restaurant is designed for an oval ring in order to enjoy the gorgeous city scenery of Guangzhou from all aspects, which lasts around 1.5 hours for a round moving. Apart from Xuanji Mediterranean Cafeteria, there are Lutes French Revolving Restaurant at 105 floors, Yue Jiao Xuan Chinese Restaurant at 103 floors and Kuai Zi Hui Restaurant.

2. Canton Tower Observation Deck (488m)

The Canton Tower Observation Deck is the highest outdoor observation deck, which has exceeded the 442-meter high observation deck of the Burj Khalifa Tower of Dubai and 447-meter high CN Tower of Canada. Covering an area of 177 square meters with accommodation around 20 persons.

3. Canton Tower Bubble Tram(450m)

Canton Tower Bubble Train, with a height of 450 meters, is the world’s highest Ferris wheel. Unlike other floating wheels but move the wheel around the reclined rail. The Ferris wheel has 16 transparent cabins taking around 20 minutes for a round, where travelers will have a special traveler experience of view the whole Guangzhou city. Every cabin has a diameter of 3.2 meters and can hold 4 to 6 passengers.

4. Canton Tower Spider Walk(168-334.4m)

1000-meter-long spider walk with 166.4-meter-high is the longest and highest sky walking in the world. With 1088 steps surrounded the tower inner side. In general, will take around 1 hour if climbing from the 33nd-floor starting point to the 60th-floor ending point. Have you ever seen the blockbuster “Spider-Man”? Challenge yourself and find out how difficult to be a true hero by climbing along with the cobweb-like steps!

5. Canton Tower Sky Drop(455m)

Canton Tower Sky Drop, with a height of 455 meters, is the highest sky drop project in the world, even higher than 300-meter sky drop at Las Vegas Carnie. There are two mega drop, one for traditional sitting jump and one for exciting free fall jumping, which is the most thrilling project for adventurers. Experience the incredible fast drop from the highest positions, enjoy the different beauty of Guangzhou city, or maybe fright just swallow your mind and body instantly at that time. Thus it was listed as the highest thrill ride on Guinness World Record and the only one who gets fame.

6. Science Hall

The Science Hall, located on the 109 and 110 floors, is the first vibration system control by initiative and passive theories, showing the six environmental protection science and technology system such as vibration control system, rainwater recycling system, wind turbine system, solar wall system, structural health inspection system and super double capsules high-speed elevator. For these functions, the Canton Tower can resist an 8-magnitude earthquake and 12-magnitude typhoons, with designed for using more than 100 years.