Huludao 葫芦岛Húludǎo

About Huludao

Huludao lines the western shore of Liaodong Bay, on the coastal corridor between north China and the north-east. Its main sight is Xingcheng Old Town, the Ming garrison city of Ningyuan founded in 1428, whose brick walls and central drum tower still stand, with beaches close by and Juehua Island offshore. On the Hebei border, the Jiumenkou Great Wall carries the Ming wall across a river on a stone bridge with nine arched openings.

What to eat in Huludao

• Seafood and pickled-cabbage hotpot (海鲜酸菜火锅)
• Hongluoxian dried tofu (虹螺岘干豆腐)

Listed sites in Huludao

18 sites in Huludao are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Huanle Longwan Hot Spring Water Park 欢乐龙湾 4A scenic area · on the map
  Huanle Longwan is a water park on the Xingcheng seafront with wave pools, slides, a drifting river, a children's water zone and hot-spring bathing pools, plus restaurants and rest pavilions.
• Hulu Ancient Town 葫芦古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  Hulu Ancient Town is a leisure and farm-tourism complex on the northern edge of Huludao, begun in 2001 and themed on gourd culture (hulu, as in the city's name) and the folk customs of north-east China (Guandong).
• Jiumenkou Great Wall 九门口长城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Jiumenkou is a stretch of Ming Great Wall that crosses a seasonal river on a stone gateway-bridge about 110 m long and 10 m high, with nine arched openings that carried heavy double wooden doors, shut at low water and opened to let floods through.
• Juehua Island 觉华岛 4A scenic area · on the map
  Juehua Island, renamed in 2009 from Juhua (Chrysanthemum) Island, is the largest island in Liaodong Bay, with about 13 km² of land, 27 km of coastline and a high point of 198 m.
• Lingshan Scenic Area, Lianshan 灵山风景名胜区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Lingshan is a hilly forest area in Lianshan District with crags, odd-shaped rocks, caves and cliffs, and an old temple complex that is a provincial heritage site.
• Longtan Grand Canyon, Jianchang 龙潭大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  Longtan Grand Canyon is a wooded gorge in the hills of western Jianchang County, close to the Hebei border, with cliffs, pools, waterfalls, caves and oddly shaped rocks; the tourism department also describes it as a national geopark.
• Longwan Beach, Huludao 龙湾海滨 4A scenic area · on the map
  Longwan Beach is a seafront resort strip on Liaodong Bay in Longgang District, with a sand beach more than 2 km long, a marble-paved central plaza flanked by European-style hotels, a coastal boardwalk, and shopping and amusement areas.
• Xingcheng Old Town 兴城古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Xingcheng Old Town is the former Ming garrison city of Ningyuan, founded in 1428 and enclosed by a roughly square circuit of brick-faced walls about 3 km round, with a gate in each side; it is counted among the best-preserved Ming city walls in China.
• Xingcheng Seaside Scenic Area 兴城海滨 4A scenic area · on the map
  Xingcheng Seaside is a 14 km sandy seafront on Liaodong Bay, divided into the Xinghai, Gangkou and Bingjia bays, with a gently shelving beach and no offshore reefs.
• Yintai Shuixing Ocean Park, Dongdaihe 银泰水星海洋乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Yintai Shuixing (Water Planet) Ocean Park is a beachfront leisure development in the Dongdaihe New Area, rated a 4A scenic area in 2017, with 4.6 km of sandy coastline.
• Baitayu Pagoda 白塔峪塔 National heritage site · on the map
  Baitayu Pagoda is a Liao-dynasty brick pagoda with eight sides and thirteen tiers of close-set eaves, standing on a hillock south of Jiulong Mountain.
• Jiangnüshi Site 姜女石遗址 National heritage site
  Jiangnüshi is a coastal complex of Qin and early Western Han palace remains on the Zhimao Bay shore, found in 1982 and excavated from 1984 to 2002; it was the first Qin-era travelling palace found outside the Guanzhong region.
• Moshigou Pagoda 磨石沟塔 National heritage site · on the map
  Moshigou Pagoda is a Liao-period brick pagoda 17.4 m high, with eight sides, nine tiers of close-set eaves and a hollow interior, standing on a hill beside Moshigou hamlet in Hongyazi Manchu township.
• Shaguotun Cave Site 沙锅屯遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  Shaguotun is a small cave on a wooded hillside that the Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Canadian scholar Davidson Black dug in June 1921, in what is regarded as the first formal archaeological excavation in China.
• Shaguotun Stone Pagoda 沙锅屯石塔 National heritage site · on the map
  This small stone pagoda was built in 1206 under the Jin dynasty and is about 5 m high, hexagonal, with five tiers of close-set eaves and a solid core.
• Shengshui Temple, Huludao 圣水寺 National heritage site · on the map
  Shengshui Temple is a Qing-dynasty complex built in 1720 on the south slope of Zhenlianhua Mountain, combining Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist halls in one walled compound of about a hectare.
• Twin Pagodas of Miaofeng Temple 妙峰寺双塔 National heritage site · on the map
  Two Liao-dynasty brick pagodas stand about 50 m apart on Miaofeng Ridge, the only surviving parts of Miaofeng Temple, which was destroyed in the late Ming or early Qing.
• Zhongqiansuo Garrison Town 中前所城 National heritage site · on the map
  Zhongqiansuo is a Ming garrison town, one of the 'thousand-household battalions' under the Guangning Qiantun Garrison, founded in 1428 and later repaired under the Qianlong emperor.

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