Atlas of China
Yangjiang 阳江Yángjiāng
Island beaches and a Song-dynasty merchant ship raised whole from the seabed
About Yangjiang
Yangjiang is one of China's main centres for making knives and scissors, and its handmade kites once earned it the name 'home of kites in the south'. On Hailing Island, crowds come for the beach at Dajiao Bay, and the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong houses the Nanhai I, a Southern Song merchant ship raised whole in 2007. Inland near Yangchun, boats run along the underground river of Lingxiao Cave, and limestone pinnacles fill the Chunwan Scenic Area.
What to eat in Yangjiang
- Zhuchanglu rolls (猪肠碌)
Listed sites in Yangjiang
4 sites in Yangjiang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Dajiao Bay, Hailing Island 海陵岛大角湾 5A scenic area · on the map
A curving, horn-shaped sandy bay at Zhapo on the south coast of Hailing Island, the island's earliest-developed and best-known beach, which with its surroundings was rated a 5A scenic area in 2015 as the Dajiao Bay Maritime Silk Road Tourist Area. - Chunwan Scenic Area 春湾风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst area beside Chunwan town in northern Yangchun, ringed by craggy limestone peaks that have been used as a film location. - Da'ao Fishing Village 大澳渔村 4A scenic area · on the map
An old fishing village in the south-east of Dongping town on the Yangdong coast, once a port of call on the Maritime Silk Road, that keeps the look of a Ming and Qing fishing settlement beside its harbour. - Lingxiao Cave 凌霄岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A large karst cave at Helang town in north-western Yangchun, part of a national geopark, whose chambers rise in three levels above an underground river.
On the map
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