Travel to Xiamen - Sunlight Rock & Piano Museum

1. Sunlight Rock

Sunlight Rock Scenic Area includes Sunlight Rock and Piano Garden China tour deals . Sunlight Rock, also known as Dragon Head Hill, is the highest point of Gulangyu Islet. Perched atop Sunlight Rock is a gigantic stone with a diameter of over 40 meters. A towering creation of nature and the symbol of Xiamen, it commands a panoramic view of the narrow channel between Xiamen Island and Gulangyu Islet, and was where Zheng Chenggong(often known abroad as Koxinga) stationed his troops before he recovered Taiwan from Dutch occuption. Ruins of Zheng Chenggong's marine Command Platform and Ancient Fort Gate are still visible today.

Located in this area, Sunlight Rock Temple is one of the four top Buddhist temples in Xiamen. The temple was first built in the Ming Dynasty and was famed far and wide, attracting accomplished monks throughout the dynasties.

Connected to Sunlight Rock through the cable car, Piano Garden is another attraction for tourists China best tours. On the Garden there are Hero Boulder, the Aviary and a cinema.

Sunlight Rock Scenic Area is Xiamen's premier tourist attraction. There is a saying that if you haven't ascended Sunlight Rock, you haven't really been to Xiamen.

2. Piano Museum

Piano Museum, which is finished on Gulangyu in January, 2000, is located in "Tingtao Pavilion" of Shuzhuang Garden popular China travel package. It covers an area of 450 square meters, and it is divided into two floors. There are 40 more old pianos displayed in the museum (collected by patriotic overseas Chinese Mr. Hu Youyi), among which are rare and valuable gold-plating piano in the world, the oldest four-coer piano in the world and the oldest and biggest vertical piano, antique hand-power piano, pedal auto-performing piano, 8-pedal ancient piano.

No matter whether they are tourists, musicians or artists, Gulangyu Piano Museum edifies them in art and music endlessly. The famous Australian pianist Jefferly Toson is the swo friend of Mr. Hu Youyi, he said, "I'm proud of my friend, he gave the most special gift to China". Furthermore, for the opening of mesuem, Jefferly Toson held a special recital in Gulangyu Music Hall. After visiting the museum, French pianist Michel Boorston said: "I hope one day we can hold an inteational piano art festival here". Our country's famous conductor Han Zhongjie, Zheng Xiaoying and American Chinese Yin Chengzong are all deeply charmed by the Piano Museum's music.

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