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Other Attractions
For more information about Guangzhou attractions, you can refer to the link below, where you can find both tour design and English-speaking tour guide service.
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/guangdong/guangzhou/
Canton Tower
Entrance fee: over CNY 150
https://www.cantontower.com/en/
Canton Tower is located at an intersection of Guangzhou New City Central Axis and Pearl River, facing directly Haixinsha Island and Zhujiang New Town. It is currently the highest-tower in China and the third highest tower in the world. Canton Tower is 600 meters high, with 450 meters of its main body and 150 meters of its antenna, which makes it the highest tower in China and third highest in the world. The tower shows a spirit of dynamic Guangzhou welcoming the challenges and embracing the world.
The Canton Tower is a comprehensive sightseeing building as well as a renowned tourist attraction with multi-functions of sightseeing, adventure, food & beverage, weddings, MICE, 4D cinema, Sci-tech, education, and shopping. It has been entitled as the National AAAA-Level Tourist Attraction, the most valuable member of the World Federation of Great Towers.
Guangdong Museum
Entrance fee: 5,000 free tickets a days
http://www.eguangzhou.gov.cn/2016-12/27/c_64749.htm
The new Guangdong Museum building opened to the public in 2010, and boasts a total construction area of 67,000 square meters with the technical equipment and conditions for the modern collection exhibition, preserving and protection of artifacts. The architecture was designed as "a container filled with Treasures on the Green Belt," and the inspiration for the spatial structure came from the traditional Chinese ivory ball. The new Guangdong Museum has become a landmark building of Guangzhou city.
Guangdong Museum houses over 160,000 pieces/sets of artworks, of which two types of historical relics, namely ancient calligraphy/painting and porcelain, are among the top ranks of all Chinese museums. Duan Inkslab, Chaozhou Wood Carving, Artistic Products for Foreign Trade, Unearthed Relics, Relics Recovered from Underwater and Collectibles from Mother Nature are the best collections here at the museum. In addition, the museum also houses over 110,000 volumes of books.
A perfect infrastructure and management system enables the Guangdong Museum to rank highest in the nation.
Baiyun Mountain
Recommended Time for a Visit: a half day
http://www.eguangzhou.gov.cn/2017-01/10/c_66086.htm
Guangzhou Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area, located in urban Guangzhou, is one of the most famous mountains in southern Guangdong, attracting over 20 million visitors every year. It is renowned as the "No.1 Scenic Area of Guangzhou" and the "No.1 Mountain of South China". The mountain, a National 5A Tourism Zone, is also ranked as No. 1 of the Top Eight Sceneries of Guangzhou.
Baiyun Mountain is made up of more than 30 hills and covers an area of 21.80 square kilometers. Its highest peak, Moxing Ridge, is 382 meters high. The picturesque mountain is rich in overlapping ridges, peaks and freely extending brooks, constituting a natural barrier in the north of Guangzhou. Tourists can enjoy a panoramic view of Guangzhou and the distant Pearl River from the top of the mountain. Baiyun Mountain takes its name from the floating clouds atop the mountain after a late autumn rain, a spectacular sight.
Chen Clan Academy
Recommended Time for a Visit: 45minutes
The Chen Clan Academy, commonly known as the Chen Clan Temple, is a national-level protected cultural heritage site and houses the Guangdong Museum of Folk Arts. Construction of the Chen Clan Temple started in the 14th year of the reign of Emperor Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty (1888) and was completed in the 20th year of the reign (1894). Located beyond the western gate of the town of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, it was a shared clan temple built with donations from Chen clan members in 72 counties in Guangdong Province. The Chen Clan Academy features an architectural style typical of ancestral halls in Lingnan. It's the largest, most sumptuously decorated and best-preserved traditional structure in Guangdong Province, dubbed the gem of Lingnan artistic architecture.
In 1959, the People's Government converted the Chen Clan Academy into the Guangdong Museum of Folk Arts, which collects, studies and displays folk handicrafts made in Guangdong and the rest of the country during the bygone dynasties. The museum showcases a score of different types of valuable artifacts and handicrafts, such as pottery, embroidery and sculptures, which reflect Lingnan's folk customs. These exhibits contain a high value for research and appreciation.
Yuexiu Park
Entrance fee: free
http://subsites.chinadaily.com.cn/guangzhou/2016-12/26/c_64618.htm
Yuexiu Park, a comprehensive park in Guangzhou, boasts over 80 years of history. It covers nearly 690,000 square meters and is made up of seven hills and three man-made lakes. It is a national key park, a National 4A Tourism Zone, one of the Top 100 Famous Chinese Parks and one of the Top Eight Scenic Spots of Guangzhou.
The park has numerous tourist attractions such as the Zhenhai Tower, the Foshan Archway, the Ancient City Wall, the Sifang Emplacement, the Sun Yat-sen Monument, the Monument at the Study and Office of Sun Yat-sen, Wu Tingfang Graveyard, the Emperor and Officials' Graveyard of the Shaowu Regime of the Ming Dynasty, the Sailors' Pavilion, the Five Rams Monument, the Five Rams Legendary Sculptures and the ball-shaped water tower.
Nanyue King Museum
Entrance fee: CNY 12 per person
https://www.nywmuseum.org.cn/En/News/About
The Nanyue King Museum is a large-scale archaeological site museum based on the important archaeological remains of the Nanyue Kingdom. It is a national first-class museum consisting of two exhibition sites: the Site of King’s Tomb and the Site of Palace and Garden. The Site of King’s Tomb is located at No.867 Jiefang North Road, formerly known as the Nanyue King Museum of the Western Han Dynasty opened in 1988. The Site of Palace and Garden is located at No.374 Beijing Road, formerly known as the Archaeological site Museum of Nanyue Kingdom Palace opened in 2014.
The Nanyue King Museum is a large-scale archaeological site museum based on the important archaeological remains of the Nanyue Kingdom. It is a national first-class museum consisting of two exhibition sites: the Site of King’s Tomb and the Site of Palace and Garden. The Site of King’s Tomb is located at No.867 Jiefang North Road, formerly known as the Nanyue King Museum of the Western Han Dynasty opened in 1988. The Site of Palace and Garden is located at No.374 Beijing Road, formerly known as the Archaeological site Museum of Nanyue Kingdom Palace opened in 2014.
Baomo Garden
Entrance fee: CNY 54 per person
Baomo Garden is located at Zini Village, Panyu District, Guangzhou. It was first built in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), ruined in 1957, and reconstructed in 1995. Now it covers an area of more than 66600 square meters, and is a masterpiece of South China gardens and architectures. The garden, laid out properly, is crisscrossed with streams and more than 30 stone bridges. Finely made artistic works including pottery sculptures, clay figurines, stone carvings, brick carvings, wood carvings, etc. decorate the whole garden. In the exhibition hall you can appreciate a large quantity of antiques, and calligraphy and paintings by celebrated masters.
Nansha Tin Hau Palace
Entrance fee: CNY 20 per person
http://www.eguangzhou.gov.cn/2017-09/11/c_102959.htm
The Nansha Tianhou Palace is an architecture built in honor of the sea goddess Mazu whose real name is believed to be Lin Mo (960-987). There are many stories about Mazu helping people during shipwrecks, and that's why she was thought to be the incarnation of the goddess of the sea. The goddess of the sea has over 100 million believers in more than twenty countries and the number is increasing every year.
Located on the southeastern slope of the Dajiao Mountain in Guangzhou city, the palace faces the Lingding Ocean which is the mouth of the Pearl River. The building covers an area about 100 hectares and combines both the styles of the Forbidden City in Beijing and the sublimity of the Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum in Nanjing. Being reputed as the "First Tianhou Palace under Heaven", Nansha Tianhou Palace is the largest palace compound of its kind in the world.
Famous scenic spots of the Nansha Tianhou Palace include Nanling Tower and Dajiao Mountain Forts. The eight-storey Nanling Tower is 45 meters tall and offers visitors a place to overlook the scenery around the palace. At Dajiao Mountain Forts, visitors can admire the relics where Chinese soldiers bravely fought with foreign invaders during the Wars in the 19th century.
