1.Shantou Nan’ao Island
The 68-kilometer-long coastal highway, the simple fishing village, and the unique natural beauty are intoxicating. The 94.3-kilometer most beautiful coastline in China, with lighthouses, windmills, cliffs, sea views, and beaches in series, is beautiful and suitable for taking photos and checking in.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 5 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: East Guangdong Sea, Nan’ao County, Shantou City
✅ Netizen experience: Qing’ao Bay is known as the “Oriental Hawaii”. It has a 2,400-meter crescent-shaped beach with fine sand and clear sea water. It is a natural beach and sunrise viewing spot.
2.Zhuhai Miaowan Island
Known as the Dream Island, the Maldives of China. The island covers an area of about 1.437-2.3 square kilometers. The main island is connected to the unnamed island on the north side of Xiafeng Bay by a 30-meter stone embankment, forming a unique landform with undeveloped primitive features and coral beaches.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2 hours, 1.5-2 hours by speedboat
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Miaowan Island, Dangan Town, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City
✅ Netizens experience: Xiafeng Bay Beach has clear water, rich corals and tropical fish species, suitable for snorkeling.
3.Huizhou Yanzhou Island
The best place to watch the sunrise at sea in Guangdong. There is no industrial development on the island, and the original ecological fishing and farming life is preserved. It is famous for its mangroves, black reefs, egrets and ancient salt making methods. It is known as the “Little Xiapu of Guangdong”. There are large tracts of mangroves near Baisha Village, where thousands of egrets live. The scene of egrets returning to their nests at dusk is very poetic, and it is a paradise for photography enthusiasts.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Huangbu Town, Huidong County, Huizhou City
✅ Netizen experience: Go to Yangwu Village Beach at 5 am to shoot the collision of black reefs and golden sunrise; capture egrets returning to their nests and sunset in the mangrove wetlands at 6-7 pm.
4.Shenzhen Dapeng Peninsula
One of the eight most beautiful seascapes in China. With a coastline of 133.22 kilometers, beaches such as Judiaosha and Jinsha Bay are known as the “Shenzhen version of Maldives”. The sea water is extremely transparent and the beach is as fine as sugar, suitable for snorkeling, surfing and other water activities.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Dapeng New District, Shenzhen
✅ Netizens experience: The water quality of Judiaosha and Yangmeikeng is clear, and corals and tropical fish can be viewed up close.
5.Zhaoqing Dinghushan
The first of the four famous mountains in Lingnan. It integrates natural wonders, cultural heritage and ecological health care, suitable for families, students and nature lovers. Combine sightseeing cars and hiking to feel the coolness and aura of the “Emerald of the Tropic of Cancer”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2 hours
🎫 Tickets: 70 yuan
🌈 Address: Dinghushan Scenic Area, Dinghu District, Zhaoqing City
✅ Netizens experience: Away from light pollution, the top of the mountain has a wide view, suitable for photography enthusiasts.
6.Shenzhen Wutong Mountain
The sunrise over the sea of clouds is known as the real-life version of the city in the sky. The main peak, Da Wutong, is 943.7 meters above sea level, the highest peak in Shenzhen and is known as the “No. 1 Peak in Pengcheng”. As a national scenic spot, it is centered on coastal mountains and natural vegetation, with a forest coverage rate of 88.6%, and is known as the “Green Lung of Shenzhen” and “City Lung”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: No. 2076, Luosha Road, Liantang Street, Luohu District, Shenzhen (North Gate)
✅ Netizen experience: Depart from Haohanpo at 4-5 am and arrive at Da Wutong Peak at around 6 am, surrounded by clouds and mist like a fairyland.
7.Shaoguan Danxia Mountain
The largest scenic spot in Guangdong, a world natural heritage site. National 5A-level tourist attraction. As the place where Danxia landforms are named, it features red cliffs and has the most typical and complete Danxia landscape in the world, and is known as the “China Red Stone Park”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: 100 yuan
🌈 Address: Danxia Mountain Scenic Area, Renhua County, Shaoguan City
✅ Netizen experience: Climb the Jiujiu Tianti (80-degree steep slope) to Ximeizhai, and feel the steepness and shock of strange rocks.
8.Zhaoqing Qixingyan
It is known as the first wonder of Lingnan and a paradise on earth. It is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, and together with Dinghushan, it constitutes the Xinghu Scenic Area. With karst karst landforms as the core, seven limestone peaks (Langfeng Rock, Yuping Rock, etc.) are arranged like the Big Dipper, scattered on the 6.3 square kilometers of Xinghu Lake, forming a unique landscape of “mountains in the lake, caves in the mountains, and rivers in the caves”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2 hours
🎫 Tickets: 70 yuan
🌈 Address: about 4 kilometers north of Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing City (West Gate/East Gate Entrance)
✅ Netizen experience: Take a bamboo raft from Shuangyuan Cave Wharf to cross the Shidong Ancient Temple and feel the magic of “temple in the cave”.
9.Chaozhou Guangji Bridge
One of the four ancient bridges in China, it is the earliest bridge in the world. It was built in the seventh year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (1171). The middle section is connected by 18 wooden boats to form a floating bridge, which can be opened and closed for navigation. There are 24 stone piers and pavilions on both sides, forming a unique landscape of “hardness and softness”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3.5 hours
🎫 Tickets: 20 yuan for adults (including climbing the tower)
🌈 Address: Guangji Bridge Scenic Area, Huancheng East Road, Xiangqiao District, Chaozhou City
✅ Netizen experience: When it is closed at 17:30, you can witness the shocking scene of the boats untying and the floating bridge separating.
10.Qingyuan · Millennium Yao Village
The oldest Yao village in China and one of the ten most beautiful ancient villages. Located on the hillside at an altitude of 803 meters, it was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,400 years. It is the largest, oldest and best-preserved Yao village in China and even in the world, and is known as the “No. 1 Yao Village in China”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3.5 hours
🎫 Ticket: 118 yuan
🌈 Address: Nangang Village, Sanpai Town, Liannan Yao Autonomous County, Qingyuan City
✅ Netizen experience: Climb to the top of the village at 5 am, the clouds and blue bricks and black tiles are intertwined, like a fairyland (occasionally see fire clouds in summer).
11.Huizhou Luofu Mountain
The world’s most famous mountain resort with Taoist charm. A national 5A tourist attraction and a national scenic spot, it is known as the “No. 1 Mountain in Lingnan” and the “Ancestor of the Baiyue Mountains”. It has 432 peaks, with the main peak Feiyunding at an altitude of 1,296 meters, surrounded by clouds and mist. You can overlook the surging sea of clouds when you climb to the top, and the sunrise is comparable to Mount Tai.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2 hours
🎫 Ticket: 54 yuan
🌈 Address: Northwest of Boluo County, Huizhou City
✅ Netizen experience: Climb the mountain in the early morning to watch the sunrise over the sea of clouds and feel the magnificence of “four hundred peaks and rivers and seas”. The top of the mountain is surrounded by clouds and mist like a fairyland, and the view of the cableway is super shocking!
12.Zengcheng Baishui Village
Baishui Village combines natural wonders, ecological exploration and parent-child interaction. Here is the largest waterfall in mainland China, Baishuixian Waterfall, with a drop of 428.5 meters. It looks like a fairy descending to the earth. The waterfall has clear water and majestic momentum. You can see rainbows on sunny days. You can feel the shock up close. It is especially spectacular when the water volume is abundant after rain.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 1.5 hours
🎫 Tickets: 60 yuan
🌈 Address: Baishui Village Scenic Spot, Paitan Town, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou
✅ Netizens experience: The waterfall is very shocking when the water volume is large. The rainbow and splashing water on the waterfall platform make children excited.
13.Huizhou Shuangyue Bay
Shuangyue Bay is centered on “Double Bay Wonder + Glass Sea”, integrating natural wonders, light outdoor sports and seafood delicacies with fireworks. Double Moon Wonder: The left bay (Daya Bay) is calm like a mirror, and the right bay (Red Bay) is turbulent, forming a unique landform of “dynamic and static twins”, which looks like two overlapping crescents from an aerial perspective.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Shuangyue Bay Tourism Resort, Huidong County, Huizhou City
✅ Netizens experience: The panoramic view of Shuangwan is worth a thousand years, and the sea water is like an overturned palette at sunset.
14.Yangjiang Hailing Island
The most charming seaside resort in the world. It is the fourth largest island in Guangdong, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 141.7 kilometers. It is famous for “Oriental Hawaii” and “Southern Beidaihe”. The 2.45-kilometer-long crescent-shaped beach in Dajiao Bay has fine sand. The 9.5-kilometer-long fine white sand beach of Shili Silver Beach is suitable for sunrise viewing.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 5 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Haibin Road, Zhapo Town, Jiangcheng District, Yangjiang City
✅ Netizens experience: Tianlu Mountain and Sea Observation Deck or Mawei Island to shoot the sea of clouds and sunset.
15.Heyuan Wanlv Lake
The largest artificial lake in South China, with a water area of 370 square kilometers (equivalent to 68 West Lakes in Hangzhou), the water quality meets the national Class I standard and can be drunk directly. More than 360 green islands are scattered around, and the lake water changes with the light, showing a gradient of dark green, dark green, and light green. It is called “Thousand Island Lake in Guangdong”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2.5 hours
🎫 Tickets: 175 yuan including cruise package
🌈 Address: Xingang Town, Dongyuan County, Heyuan City
✅ Netizens experience: The lake water is as clear as the Yaochi, and climbing to the top of the Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion overlooking the 360 islands is like being in a fairyland!
16.Zhuhai Wailingding Island
Wai Lingding Island is centered on “Glass Sea + History and Humanity”, integrating natural wonders with the original ecological fishing village style. It is a small and secluded island with few people and beautiful scenery, suitable for vacation, sea catching, fishing, and watching the sunset. You can drive to Xiangzhou Wharf and then take a boat to arrive.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours (self-driving → boat ride)
🎫 Tickets: Free (boat ticket 80+ yuan)
🌈 Address: Wai Lingding Island, Dangan Town, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City
✅ Netizen experience: After climbing to the top of Lingding Peak and overlooking the archipelago, all the fatigue is worth it.
17.Jiangmen·Shangxiachuan Island
Shangchuan Island: Known for its “Water Lily Emerging from the Blue Waves of the South China Sea”, it has scenic spots such as Feisha Beach, Windmill Hill, and Qipan Hill. The windmills and the coastline are interwoven into the “Guangdong version of California Highway 1”. Xiachuan Island: Famous for its Coconut Grove Beach, Wangfuzhou Beach is 1,600 meters long with fine sand. Niutang Bay, Sister Bay and other niche bays are suitable for sea catching and camping.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 3 hours
🎫 Tickets: Shangchuan Island Feisha Beach + Boat Ticket + Bus Ticket Package: about 148 yuan/person. Xiachuan Island Wangfuzhou + Boat Ticket + Bus Ticket Package: about 168 yuan/person
🌈 Address: Shangchuan Island: Feisha Beach Tourist Area, Chuandao Town, Taishan City, Xiachuan Island: Wangfuzhou Tourist Area, Xiachuan Town, Taishan City
✅ Netizens’ experience: Xiachuan Island’s coconut groves and white sands are praised as “China’s Phuket Island”, and the sunset on Shangchuan Island Windmill Hill is “as beautiful as an oil painting”.
18.Qingyuan Yingxi Peak Forest
Yingxi Peak Forest Corridor is famous for its karst peak forest, cave wonders and pastoral idyll. It is known as the “first peak forest scenery in the south” and is the longest and most dense peak forest corridor in Guangdong Province. It is recommended to combine hiking, rafting and tea garden experience to experience the unique charm of “Guangdong Little Guilin”.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2.5 hours
🎫 Tickets: Free
🌈 Address: Jiulong Town, southwest of Yingde City, Qingyuan City
✅ Netizens experience: The reflection of the peak forest is breathtakingly beautiful, especially when it is surrounded by clouds and mist after rain, as if you are in an ink painting.
19.Jiangmen Kaiping Diaolou
Kaiping Diaolou is a multi-story tower-style building that combines defense and living functions and was built by overseas Chinese to prevent banditry and flooding. Its construction began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. It integrates Chinese and Western architectural art and is an important carrier of overseas Chinese culture.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 2 hours
🎫 Tickets: Five-point package (valid for 2 days): 180 yuan
🌈 Address: Kaiping Diaolou Cultural Tourism Area, Jiangmen City
✅ Netizen experience: The rice fields and Diaolou in Zili Village complement each other, and the light and shadow are best in the early morning or dusk.
20.Qingyuan Lianzhou Underground River
Formed by the crustal movement 200 million years ago, it is a typical subtropical karst cave underground river landscape. Underground river layer: The first layer is an underground river with a total length of 1,500 meters. You can take a boat tour. The river water is clear and travels between the canyons. The stalactites on both sides are reflected like a painting. The second and third layers are dry caves, with iconic attractions such as “Xianrentian Square”, “Golden Rooster Crowing” and “Flying Elephant Crossing the River”. Stalagmites, stone pillars and stone curtains are of different shapes, and they are like a fairyland under the light.
🚗 Self-driving time: about 4 hours
🎫 Tickets: 108 yuan including explanation + cruise
🌈 Address: Dadong Village, Dongpi Town, Lianzhou City, Qingyuan City
✅ Netizen experience: Take a boat through the canyon and feel the tranquility and fantasy of the “Milky Way in the Cave”. It is recommended to take pictures by the window.
The above are the 20 most worthwhile attractions in Guangdong. Each attraction has its own unique charm and characteristics. Whether you like natural scenery, are keen on history and culture, or pursue excitement and joy, there is always a place here to meet your needs.
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