This is not abroad! It's Shantou!!!
The scenery here
Even 10TB of eye capacity is not enough to take it all in
Shantou—Nan'ao
Tourist spots📍:
1️⃣ Shantou Small Park: A place with a sense of the era, the architecture is very photogenic
2️⃣ Shantou Hostel: The shooting location for the 'Instagram-famous' Shantou sign! It's actually just a place with the four big characters of Shantou Hostel
3️⃣ Nanbin Park: Super beautiful, with the seaside! Sunset. This should be the perfect place to watch the sunset over Queshi Bridge~ (There's a parking lot, parking is free)
4️⃣ Shantou Old Town: There are many buildings from the early 20th century, this is a bustling commercial area of Shantou, with historical buildings like the department store, Yongping Restaurant, Shantou Post Office building, and Laomagong still retaining their original appearance.
5️⃣ Square Ferry: For just 1 yuan, you can enjoy the beautiful sunset here
6️⃣ Nan'ao Island: The scenery is super beautiful, a very healing small island
7️⃣ Shuixian Ancient Temple: Locals call it Shuixian An, founded at the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing dynasty, revived during the Republic of China era, and expanded and restored in 1996 and 1997. It has a traditional Chinese style, with few tourists, choose a sunny day, and taking photos from 3-5 pm is super photogenic
🍱Cuisine
Beef hot pot🍲, rice noodle roll, pig stomach chicken, chicken pot, beef offal pot
Guang gao tiao, Chaozhou marinated raw food, oyster omelette, sashimi, guo juice
Fermented tofu chicken wings, licorice fruit, rice noodle roll
So many delicious foods... impossible to eat them all~😍
🥯 Any random place is delicious, and it's highly unlikely to be disappointing, no need to go to just the famous ones~
⚠️tips: But don't go inside the Small Park, it's expensive and not tasty
Transportation:
✈️Plane (Jieyang International Airport)
Chaozhou, Jieyang, and Shantou share one airport
🚝High-speed train
Shantou South
🌉Crossing the bridge
Nan'ao Bridge toll is 96 yuan (valid for one trip), no charge for leaving the island
There are QR code electric cars and electric car rentals on Nan'ao Island, not recommended!
The distance around the island is also far, it will cost over a hundred for a day and it's very tiring
🚌The most convenient way to travel around Shantou is by bus, DiDi, or electric scooter
🚏For the bus, you can get a bus card on Alipay
Shantou Old Town is also called Shantou Small Park, a historical and cultural district. The place retains a large number of buildings from the 1930s. The whole small park is a commercial pedestrian street, and it has now become a punch-in network red spot for Shantou.
Go to the place where Shantou must punch in, surrounded by a small park and scattered out of several streets, but also retain the complete Republic of China style, you can eat and drink, go shopping, take pictures for a long time
Shantou Old Town is known as "100-year-old business" and is one of the earliest port cities opened to the outside world in modern China. The small park is centered on Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion, with a commercial pattern of radiation diffusion, and the roads lead to the pier. It is a "chao people spiritual and cultural home".
Shantou Small Park is recommended,,,,,,,
The old look of town is by design and makes it look like centuries olden era infrastructure, which is so unique in its own way
汕头历史不算悠久,但近代史现代史绝对也是浓墨重彩,这座记载着当年辉煌与记忆的大清邮局位于老城区的繁华路段,见证了百年以来的变迁,欧陆式建筑很是雄伟气派,内部没有开放,所以只能在门口的广场感受和想象当年的风采。