Xiamen Gulangyu Lake Cycling Guide

This season is the best time for cycling, and what cycling routes are worth visiting in Xiamen Gulangyu Lake? For details about the Xiamen Gulangyu Lake cycling route guide, let’s take a look.

Cycling Guide

【Recommended Route】Nanhu Park—Hubin North Road–Bailuzhou Park–West Dike–Haiguan Park–Nanhu Park

【Route Features】Located in the urban area, there are no slopes, it is very gentle, suitable for cycling beginners and ordinary cycling enthusiasts. Although the route is long, the negative ion content of Gulangyu Lake makes people greedy.

【Scenic Spots Along the Way】Nanhu Park, Bailuzhou Park, West Dike, Haiguan Park.

【Friendly Reminder】There are many children in Nanhu Park and Bailuzhou Park. Pay special attention to safety when cycling.

Gulangyu Lake, formerly known as Gulangyu Port, is located in the southwest of Xiamen Island. It was originally connected to the sea and was used as a mother port terminal. Later, the sea was enclosed to create farmland, and a dike was built from Fuyu Island to Dongdu, making Gulangyu Port an inland lake with a water area of ​​1.7 square kilometers.

Gulangyu Lake is like a light ribbon as clear as glass, almost running through the entire Xiamen, connecting the sparkling Nanhu Park, Bailuzhou Park and Haiguan Park. The small island in the middle of the lake is like a shining pearl embedded in Gulangyu Lake. In the daytime, flocks of egrets fly up from the small island in the center of Gulangyu Lake. The clear lake water reflects the elegant and graceful posture of the egrets, as well as the tall and majestic modern buildings on the shore, forming a beautiful watercolor painting. Riding along Gulangyu Lake, all the way to luxurious houses reflected in the water, fragrant flowers and plants, egrets dancing, endless joy.

Scenic Spot: Nanhu Park

Nanhu Park is located on the shore of Yuandang Lake in the new urban area of ​​Xiamen. It covers an area of ​​16.1 hectares and was built in 1990 and opened in 1995. Nanhu Park is a leisure park with very good greenery. There is a large lawn in the park, covering an area of ​​7.2 hectares, very suitable for flying kites and sunbathing. The large and small tea pavilions are good places for friends to have tea and chat.

Scenic Spot: Bailuzhou Park

Bailuzhou Park is the largest fully open square park in Xiamen. The whole park is divided into two parts: Central Park and West Park. The environment of the park is very good, the flowers and plants are well-maintained, the lawn is also beautifully manicured, the trees are lush, the paths are winding and secluded, and there is a particularly large lake. There is a statue of the Egret Goddess in the park, standing on the yacht dock in the south of the park, which is an iconic sculpture of Xiamen. There are pigeons in the square in front of the statue, which are close to tourists. The music fountain in Bailuzhou Park is also a surprise. Every festival, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the fountain.

Scenic Spot: West Dike Coffee Street

West Dike Coffee Street is the “gathering place of happiness” for Xiamen’s petty bourgeoisie. This is a coffee street with the theme of “nature, humanity, and style”, located on Gulangyu Road, facing Gulangyu Lake. There are few people, few cars, and little noise here. The street facing the lake is very quiet. The coffee shops here are renovated from a row of villas on the West Dike, with a foreign style. These coffee shops from all over the world, with their graceful appearance, make this street exude a strong aroma of coffee. Italian quality, French style, North American style…… Here, it is as if you are living elsewhere, and for foreign friends, this is a familiar landscape thousands of miles away. Here, you drink coffee, but also a free and independent dream lifestyle.

Scenic Spot: Haiguan Park

Haiguan Park is located on the west side of Hubin West Road on Xiamen Island, between the western sea area of ​​Xiamen and Gulangyu Lake. The park covers a total area of ​​200,100 square meters. It is flat. You can look west to the sea from the park, east to Gulangyu Lake and Bailuzhou Park, northwest to Haicang Bridge, and the beautiful Gulangyu Island is also within sight.

Haiguan Park is a large comprehensive park integrating tourism, leisure, and entertainment. The plants, terrain, roads, and venues in the park have strong contrasts, but they are unified in a specific order. The park uses the simplest landscape elements to create rich and mysterious spatial changes, while also making the space have good humanization and flexibility. The possibility of use, making the park a humane citizen park with coastal characteristics in Xiamen. The park is divided into seven scenic spots: Tianyuan, Diyuan, Linyuan, Caoyuan, Shuihuayuan, Coastal Scenery and Xingguang Avenue, and is divided into North Garden and South Garden by Xingguang Avenue. As a highlight of Haiguan Park, Xingguang Avenue is 300 meters long and 40 meters wide, with 2,076 LED floor tile lights installed in the middle, which can produce various changes under computer control. During major holidays, Xingguang Avenue will be lit up every day, and fountains will be activated at the same time. The open Tasing Square directly introduces the atmosphere of the sea into the land, connecting the city’s inland lakes.