Saturday, November 8, 2008

Company outing to Xiamen, First day (1)

Xiamen is always famous for its beauty, and it really shocks me today, with her rain, especially when we comes up to the highest mountain of GuLangYu Island....
Xiamen is a city near Taiwan island. The nearest part is only over 1km to Kingmen island of TW. So the development of this place is a little bit slower than other "special" cities in China, such as Shenzhen and Zhuhai. Recently, this city is developed fastly with the warmer relationship between mainland and TW. A lot of Taiwanese lives here, which is the main reason for her high reel estate price, at least I think. The overall price of reel estate is similar with Shanghai....
The first picture shows the city flower of Xiamen, called "Triangle flower", because of the flower shape. It could see everywhere in the city.
In the first day, our main visit target is GuLangYu, which is also the most famous place in Xiamen. This picture shows the view of GuLangYu from Xiamen.

Because of the "strange" relationship of mainland and TW, there is a trip to take you have a look at Jinmen Island. This picture shows the special dragon boat that used in this trip. I will take that if we have time tomorrow or Monday.

Here comes the useful part, ticket price. For all sites, the total price is 80 rmb. Actually, the most important one is Sunlight Rock (日光岩). If you have enough time, (>5 hour), you could buy those tickets together with a relatively cheap price.
Too tired, later I will wirte more. Yepper.