Hainan (海南省) · 7 places · 5 cities
7 places in Hainan, grouped by city. The last column is the gate: 0 of them are open at all hours, and the others close, often earlier than the light does.
Most common here: Mountain and forest (4), Specialist park (2), Geopark (1). See all provinces, or the background on parks.
2 places
Baoting (near Sanya) (保亭)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Yanoda Rainforest (呀诺达)Tropical rainforest with 1,400 plant species and 140 animal species, in valleys an hour from the coast. Stream-walking, zip lines and a glass walkway; the name is a Hainanese greeting. | Mountain and forest | 8:00 to 17:30 |
| Yanoda Tropical Rainforest (呀诺达雨林文化旅游区)Rainforest on the south side of Wuzhi mountain, an hour from the Sanya beaches, laid out in three valleys. Rafting runs year round and the walking is easy enough for children. | Mountain and forest | 8:30 to 18:00 |
2 places
Sanya (三亚市)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Luhuitou (鹿回头)A headland above Sanya carrying a 15 m sculpture taken from a Li legend, and the fullest view of the city and its bays, which makes it the standard place to watch the sun go down. | Mountain and forest | 7:30 to 22:30 |
| Tianya Haijiao (天涯海角)The rocks at what Chinese tradition treats as the end of the earth, with the phrase itself carved on them. A song from 1982 made the place a fixed point in the national imagination. | Specialist park | 7:30 to 18:30 |
1 place
Haikou (海口)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Haikou Volcano Cluster Global Geopark (海口火山群世界地质公园)UNESCO GEOPARKForty cones and more than thirty lava tubes over 108 square kilometres, one of the few Holocene volcanic fields in China. The Ma’anling crater stands 223 m and is intact. | Geopark | 8:00 to 18:00 |
1 place
Sanya (三亚)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park (亚龙湾热带天堂森林公园)Fifteen hundred hectares of coastal hill above Yalong Bay, holding some 1,500 plant species. A rope bridge 168 m long hangs 40 m above the forest, and the sea is in view from most of the ridge. | Mountain and forest | 8:00 to 18:00 |
1 place
Wanning (万宁)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden (兴隆热带植物园)Forty-two hectares holding 1,200 tropical and subtropical species, run by a research institute: coffee, cocoa, vanilla, pepper, durian and mangosteen grown as crops rather than shown as specimens. | Specialist park | 7:30 to 17:30 |
Which Ones Need a Whole Day
A city park is an hour before dinner. A geopark can be a full day with a shuttle and a cable car, and the gate closes earlier than the park does. Tell our local team where you will be and they will say which of these fit the day you have.