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Listed sites in Hainan 海南
70 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 16 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.
The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.
5A scenic areas in Hainan
- Binglanggu Li and Miao Cultural Tourism Zone 槟榔谷黎苗文化旅游区 5A scenic area · on the map
A cultural park in Sandao town, set in an areca-palm valley, that presents Li and Miao traditions through demonstrations of Li brocade weaving, nose-flute and bamboo-instrument music, a staged Li wedding and a hands-on area where visitors learn the Li firewood dance. - Boundary Island (Fenjiezhou) 分界洲岛 5A scenic area
A small uninhabited island in Riyue Bay off Guangpo town, whose name, 'dividing-line island', refers to the climatic divide between northern and southern Hainan. - Da Xiao Dongtian 大小洞天 5A scenic area · on the map
A coastal scenic area at the foot of Nanshan hill in Yazhou district, named Da Xiao Dongtian, or 'Great and Little Cave-Heavens' (a Daoist term for sacred grottoes), in the Song dynasty. - Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone 南山文化旅游区 5A scenic area
A large modern Buddhist-themed park on the coast west of Sanya, built around Nanshan Temple, founded in 1998, and the Guanyin of Nanshan, a 108 m statue (including its base) on an artificial islet that was consecrated in 2005. - Tianya Haijiao 天涯海角 5A scenic area
A beach west of Sanya scattered with large boulders, several carved with the characters that made the place famous: Tianya (edge of the sky), cut in 1733 by the Yazhou prefect; Nantian Yizhu (pillar of the southern sky), added in 1909; and Haijiao (corner of the sea), added in 1939. - Wuzhizhou Island 蜈支洲岛 5A scenic area · on the map
A small island of about 1.5 square kilometres in Haitang Bay, with sandy beaches, rocky shores and tropical forest, and water sports on offer around its coast. - Yanoda Rainforest Cultural Tourism Zone 呀诺达雨林文化旅游区 5A scenic area
A rainforest tourism zone in the hills of Sandao town, best known for stream trekking: visitors wade up forest streams in helmets and water shoes, climb the Lian'en waterfall, work through a ten-stage waterfall-wading course and ride a zip-slide above the canopy.
By city
Baoting (4) · Chengmai (3) · Danzhou (4) · Ding'an (3) · Dongfang (3) · Haikou (17) · Lingao (1) · Lingshui (5) · Qionghai (5) · Qiongzhong (1) · Sanya (12) · Tunchang (1) · Wanning (1) · Wenchang (8) · Wuzhishan (2)
Baoting 4 sites
- Binglanggu Li and Miao Cultural Tourism Zone 槟榔谷黎苗文化旅游区 5A scenic area · on the map
A cultural park in Sandao town, set in an areca-palm valley, that presents Li and Miao traditions through demonstrations of Li brocade weaving, nose-flute and bamboo-instrument music, a staged Li wedding and a hands-on area where visitors learn the Li firewood dance. - Yanoda Rainforest Cultural Tourism Zone 呀诺达雨林文化旅游区 5A scenic area
A rainforest tourism zone in the hills of Sandao town, best known for stream trekking: visitors wade up forest streams in helmets and water shoes, climb the Lian'en waterfall, work through a ten-stage waterfall-wading course and ride a zip-slide above the canopy. - Qixianling Hot Spring National Forest Park 七仙岭温泉国家森林公园 4A scenic area
A national forest park beneath the seven jagged peaks of Qixianling, with a forest zone and a hot-spring zone. - Shenyu Island Cultural Tourism Zone 神玉岛文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeside leisure area on the Maozhen Reservoir in the hills of Xiangshui town, built around a jade-culture theme and named after an island in the lake.
Chengmai 3 sites
- Fushan Coffee Culture Town 福山咖啡文化风情镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourist town built around the coffee of Fushan, where coffee has been grown since the 1930s and whose beans hold national geographical-indication status. - Feng Clan Ancestral Hall, Shique Village 石𱵄村冯氏祠堂 National heritage site · on the map
A group of Feng clan halls in Shique village, the first Hainan home of the Feng family, who trace their line to Feng Bao and Lady Xian, the sixth-century leader who asked the Liang court to set up Yazhou prefecture on the island. - Twin Pagodas of Meilang 美榔双塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two Buddhist pagodas of volcanic stone that once stood in front of the vanished Jirui Nunnery, dated to the Song or Yuan dynasty.
Danzhou 4 sites
- Dongpo Academy 东坡书院 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The site where the poet and official Su Dongpo (Su Shi), exiled to Hainan in the late 1090s, lived and taught in Danzhou; the academy that grew up around his Zaijiu Hall was rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties, destroyed in the Cultural Revolution and restored in 1982. - Shihua Water Cave Geopark 石花水洞地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst geopark at Yaxing in western Danzhou, built around a limestone cave that visitors tour partly on foot and partly by small boat, with a stone forest above ground. - Ancient City of Danzhou 儋州故城 National heritage site · on the map
The old walled seat of Danzhou prefecture, founded in the early Tang dynasty and used through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, which now forms the core of Zhonghe town. - Yangpu Ancient Salt Field 洋浦盐田 National heritage site
A salt field of more than a thousand flat-topped volcanic-rock slabs, each cut with a shallow trough and a thin rim, laid out on the shore at Yantian village on the Yangpu peninsula.
Ding'an 3 sites
- Murui Mountain Revolutionary Base 母瑞山革命根据地 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain base area of the Communist-led Qiongya forces, which held out on Murui Mountain in 1928 and again in 1932. - Wenbifeng Pangu Culture Park 文笔峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A Taoist and Pangu-legend complex of about 1,200 mu at the foot of Wenbi Peak near Nanli Lake, built in Southern Song style around the Yuchan Palace, a group of Taoist halls and shrines. - Ding'an Old City 定安古城 National heritage site · on the map
The old county town of Ding'an, whose walls were begun in 1466 and finished in 1519; the west gate, the north gate and more than a kilometre of wall survive, along with several of the main streets inside.
Dongfang 3 sites
- E'xian Ridge 娥仙岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested limestone massif in Donghe town on the shore of the Daguangba reservoir, whose main peak, E'niang Jiufeng, rises above 1,200 metres and is covered in rainforest on karst. - Huali Valley (Rosewood Valley) 花梨谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure park themed on Hainan's huanghuali rosewood, with a plantation of more than a million trees, flower fields, a picking garden, a visitor centre, a rosewood museum, caravan and star-gazing cabins, and a hot-spring resort. - Basuo Labourers' Memorial Site 侵华日军侵琼八所死难劳工纪念地 National heritage site · on the map
A site on the shore at Basuo that records the forced labour used by the Japanese army to build Basuo port, a railway and military works between 1939 and 1942, when workers brought from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Hainan, together with more than a thousand Allied prisoners of war, were put to work.
Haikou 17 sites
- Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove Tourist Area 东寨港红树林 4A scenic area
A visitor area on the Dongzhai Harbor mangroves, part of a national nature reserve on Haikou's north-east coast that protects about 26,000 mu of mangrove wetland with 36 mangrove species. - Haikou Qilou Old Street 海口骑楼老街 4A scenic area · on the map
A historic district of more than 600 arcaded shophouses (qilou), largely built between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries by Hainanese who had traded in South-East Asia, combining Chinese plasterwork and murals with European and Asian columns and arches. - Haikou Volcanic Cluster Global Geopark 海口火山口公园 4A scenic area
The Haikou section of the Leiqiong Global Geopark, a lava plateau south of Haikou with more than 40 Quaternary volcanoes, the youngest of which erupted in the Holocene. - Hainan Changying Fantasy Park 海南长影奇幻乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A film-themed amusement park developed by the Changying film group, which opened as Changying Global 100 Fantasy Park and has since been renamed. - Hainan Museum 海南省博物馆 4A scenic area
The provincial museum, in the Hainan Cultural Park on Guoxing Avenue, has occupied its present building since 2008 and was rated a national first-class museum in 2012. - Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden 海南热带野生动植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A zoo set in about 1,500 mu of planted tropical forest in the hills south of Haikou, opened in 1996, with a drive-through area and a walking area. - Holiday Beach 假日海滩 4A scenic area · on the map
A long city beach on Haikou's north-western coast, facing the Qiongzhou Strait and running alongside Binhai Avenue, set up as a visitor beach in 1995. - Mission Hills Haikou 海口观澜湖 4A scenic area
A large resort complex on a black lava plateau south of Haikou, developed since the late 2000s around ten 18-hole golf courses. - Tomb of Hai Rui 海瑞墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The tomb of Hai Rui (1514–87), the Ming official remembered for his incorruptibility, was completed in 1589 as a granite mound reached along a spirit way of stone archways and carved animals and officials. - Former Qionghai Customs House 琼海关旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The former customs house of Haikou, completed in 1937 on Deshengsha Road at the edge of the Qilou district. - Hou Family Compound, Qiongshan 琼山侯家大院 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty merchant family's compound in Baodao village, built around 1800 by the Hou family, who had moved from Guangdong and prospered as pawnbrokers. - Qiongya Red Army Reorganisation Site, Yunlong 琼崖工农红军云龙改编旧址 National heritage site · on the map
On 5 December 1938, at the market town of Yunlong, the Communist-led Qiongya Red Army was reorganised as an anti-Japanese independent unit under an agreement with the Nationalist authorities on the island. - Qiu Jun's Former Residence and Tomb 丘浚故居及墓 National heritage site · on the map
Qiu Jun (1421–95) was a Ming scholar-statesman from Qiongshan who rose to Grand Secretary. - Site of the First Qiongya Congress of the Communist Party 中共琼崖第一次代表大会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A two-range courtyard house of brick and timber, built around 1920 by the Qiu family, where 11 delegates representing some 240 party members met in secret in June 1926 and elected the Qiongya regional committee of the Communist Party. - Temple of the Five Lords 五公祠 National heritage site
A memorial complex in Haikou's old Fucheng quarter honouring five Tang and Song officials who were banished to Hainan, among them the chancellors Li Deyu and Li Gang. - Xiuying Fort 秀英炮台 National heritage site
A Qing coastal fort on a low rise above Haikou's north-western shore, built in the early 1890s on the orders of the viceroy Zhang Zhidong to guard the Qiongzhou Strait against a French threat. - Zhuyaling City Site 珠崖岭城址 National heritage site · on the map
The earthen walls of a small walled town survive on a rise beside the Nandu River, enclosing about 2.9 hectares, with a gap in the south wall that marks the gate.
Lingao 1 site
- Hainan Liberation Park and Lingao Cape Lighthouse 海南解放公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park on Lingao Cape, the headland on Hainan's north-west coast where troops of the People's Liberation Army's 40th Army landed in the early hours of 17 April 1950, in the crossing of the Qiongzhou Strait that brought Hainan Island under PRC control.
Lingshui 5 sites
- Boundary Island (Fenjiezhou) 分界洲岛 5A scenic area
A small uninhabited island in Riyue Bay off Guangpo town, whose name, 'dividing-line island', refers to the climatic divide between northern and southern Hainan. - Hainan Ocean Paradise 海南海洋欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A marine-life theme park resort at Li'an, opened in December 2021 as R&F Ocean Paradise, covering about 2,000 mu (roughly 130 hectares) in five themed zones. - Nanwan Monkey Island 南湾猴岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A macaque reserve on the Nanwan peninsula beside Xincun harbour, established in 1965, where more than a thousand macaques live in the forest. - Qingshui Bay (Clear Water Bay) 清水湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A beach-resort district on Lingshui's coast with about 12 km of shoreline, fine sand and clear water. - Former Lingshui County Soviet Government 陵水县苏维埃政府旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A white-walled, tiled building in Yelin, built in 1921 as the Qiongshan Guild Hall.
Qionghai 5 sites
- Baishiling 白石岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A hilly area beside the Wanquan River covering 16.24 square kilometres, made up of four linked ridges with peaks, valleys, lakes and forest of about 90 per cent cover, the highest point reaching 328 metres. - Boao Forum for Asia Permanent Venue 博鳌亚洲论坛永久会址 4A scenic area · on the map
The permanent conference site of the Boao Forum for Asia, on Dongyu Island where the Wanquan River meets the sea. - China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea 中国（海南）南海博物馆 4A scenic area
A large museum beside the fishing harbour at Tanmen, opened in April 2018, with about 70,000 square metres of floor space. - World Tropical Fruit Window 世界热带水果之窗 4A scenic area · on the map
A tropical-fruit park in Dalu town that grows and displays some 680 fruit varieties introduced from Latin America, Australia and South-East Asia, with science-education displays alongside the orchards. - Cai Family House, Boao 蔡家宅 National heritage site · on the map
Four brick-and-concrete courtyard houses built between 1924 and 1934 in Liuke village by four Cai brothers, Chinese merchants in Indonesia, covering about 2,645 square metres in a regular rectangle facing west.
Qiongzhong 1 site
- Baihualing Rainforest Cultural Tourism Area 百花岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested hill area in Hainan's central highlands, opened to visitors in 2019, with a tree-top boardwalk, tree houses, a swinging bridge over water, a glass slide and a 2 km rainforest slide, along with Baihua Waterfall, which drops more than 300 m in all.
Sanya 12 sites
- Da Xiao Dongtian 大小洞天 5A scenic area · on the map
A coastal scenic area at the foot of Nanshan hill in Yazhou district, named Da Xiao Dongtian, or 'Great and Little Cave-Heavens' (a Daoist term for sacred grottoes), in the Song dynasty. - Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone 南山文化旅游区 5A scenic area
A large modern Buddhist-themed park on the coast west of Sanya, built around Nanshan Temple, founded in 1998, and the Guanyin of Nanshan, a 108 m statue (including its base) on an artificial islet that was consecrated in 2005. - Tianya Haijiao 天涯海角 5A scenic area
A beach west of Sanya scattered with large boulders, several carved with the characters that made the place famous: Tianya (edge of the sky), cut in 1733 by the Yazhou prefect; Nantian Yizhu (pillar of the southern sky), added in 1909; and Haijiao (corner of the sea), added in 1939. - Wuzhizhou Island 蜈支洲岛 5A scenic area · on the map
A small island of about 1.5 square kilometres in Haitang Bay, with sandy beaches, rocky shores and tropical forest, and water sports on offer around its coast. - Atlantis Sanya 三亚亚特兰蒂斯 4A scenic area · on the map
An ocean-themed resort complex on Haitang Bay that opened in April 2018, covering about 31 hectares with a 1,314-room hotel, restaurants and a shopping arcade. - Luhuitou Park 鹿回头公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill park on the peninsula just south of central Sanya, covered in evergreen tropical monsoon forest. - Sanya International Duty Free Shopping Complex 三亚国际免税城 4A scenic area · on the map
A large duty-free shopping mall run by China Duty Free Group on Haitang Bay, which moved here in 2014 from a smaller shop in Dadonghai that opened in 2009. - Sanya Red Detachment of Women Performing Arts Park 三亚红色娘子军演艺公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A show-centred theme park in Tianya district, laid out in three zones named Red Memory, Red Sanya and Sea of Stars. - West Island 西岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A small island off Sanya's western coast, the offshore island nearest to the city, with a working fishing village of old coral-stone houses whose history goes back more than 400 years. - Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park 亚龙湾热带天堂森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park on the hills behind Yalong Bay, set in dense tropical forest. - Luobi Cave 落笔洞遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A limestone cave under Luobi Peak, the southernmost prehistoric cave site found in China so far. - Yacheng Academy 崖城学宫 National heritage site · on the map
The former Confucian school of Yazhou prefecture, founded in 1044 in the Northern Song dynasty, moved to this site in 1823 and repaired in 1872.
Tunchang 1 site
- Menghuan Xiangshan Fragrance Park 梦幻香山 4A scenic area · on the map
A fragrance-themed garden park of more than 600 mu (about 40 hectares) in the hills beside the central expressway, with over a hundred kinds of scented flowers and herbs, about 400 mu of lemon orchard and some 10,000 agarwood trees, more than half of them nearly 30 years old.
Wanning 1 site
- Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden 兴隆热带植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A botanical garden founded in 1957 and open to visitors since 1997, run by the Spice and Beverage Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences.
Wenchang 8 sites
- Coconut Grand View Garden 椰子大观园 4A scenic area · on the map
A coconut-themed park of 443 mu (about 30 hectares) that grew out of a palm germplasm collection of the Coconut Research Institute and has been open to visitors since 1980. - Song Family Ancestral Home 宋氏祖居 4A scenic area
A courtyard house in Changsa town linked to the family of Charlie Soong (Song Jiashu), the father of Song Qingling and Song Meiling, who married Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. - Tonggu Ridge 铜鼓岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal ridge at the north-eastern tip of Hainan, surrounded by sea on three sides, with 18 linked peaks and a main summit of 338 metres. - Doubing Pagoda 斗柄塔 National heritage site · on the map
An eight-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda about 20 metres high on the main peak of Qixing Ridge above Puqian, built in the Ming dynasty as a feng shui tower that also served as a navigation mark. - Fu Family House, Wenchang 文昌符家宅 National heritage site · on the map
A compound of three two-storey blocks in a village in Wencheng town, built in the 1910s by brothers who had made their money in Singapore, using local fired brick and imported Thai hardwood. - Han Family House, Wenchang 韩家宅 National heritage site · on the map
A four-courtyard family house built in 1936–38 in Fuzhai village by Han Qinzhun, a Wenchang merchant based in Thailand. - Wenchang Confucian Temple 文昌学宫 National heritage site · on the map
The former county Confucian temple and school of Wenchang, founded in the Northern Song dynasty and moved to its present site in 1375, early in the Ming. - Xibei Academy 溪北书院 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty academy begun in 1893 in Puqian town on the initiative of the calligrapher and scholar Pan Cun, with funding from the governor-general Zhang Zhidong, though Pan died just before it was finished.
Wuzhishan 2 sites
- Wuzhishan Red Canyon 五指山红峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A rainforest gorge in Nansheng town developed for visitors from 2015, with a 3.8 km rafting run through the canyon and a 3.8 km boardwalk along its banks. - Wuzhishan Revolutionary Base Memorial Park 五指山革命根据地纪念园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park built from 2001 on the site of the Qiongya Column's headquarters in Maogui village, the last base of the Communist-led armed struggle on Hainan before 1950.