Weizhou Island [Beihai]

"One of Top Ten Most Beautiful Islands in China"
Ranked by China National Geography Magazine

Weizhou Island in Beihai City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: A work of volcanic sculpture

Lying south of Beihai City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Weizhou Island is six kilometers from north to south and five kilometers from east to west. Formed of Quatemary Period volcanic rocks and lavas, Weizhou is China’s largest and youngest volcanic island. The southern part of the island presents many examples of volcanic topography. These include walls and terraces formed by rocks molten and compressed in volcanic eruption, grotesque and colorful sights of marine-eroded caverns, hills, pillars and terraces, together creating an ocean fairyland. The northern part of the island is lower, with sand dikes, beaches and rocks. Flatter, more open morphology predominates. On the seabed are corals with fabulously attractive colors. Its features give to the name 'The Penglai Fairy Island, of the South China Sea.'

The Weizhou island is the biggest volcanic island in China. With dense vegetation, beautiful landscape and simple and honest people, it is particularly rich in lava eroded caverns and varieties of sea animals. It is where people are longing for. The Weizhou island is the migrating place, many varieties of migratory birds and stay birds perch on it. This offers a thrilling view. The Weizhou island is 36 nautical miles away from the city proper with a total area of 24.7 square kilometers. Two arches of East and West exist in the south of the island just like crabs lying in the water. With an area of 1.9 kilometers, the Xieyang island is 4.5 kilometers from the Weizhou island. It is where the spectacular view of the sun slantingly setting can be seen, hence the name Xieyang island. Moreover, it enjoys the reputation as 'the big and small Penglai Island'. More than 40 scenic spots of the two islands such as volcanic eruption, volcanic mouth, and marine living things are mainly distributed along the coast. Eroded landforms are strange and lifelike and some sea scenery is rarely seen.

Best time to go
Anytime especially June, July and August
An average temperature is 73.2F while the highest is 98.7F and the lowest is 35.6F.

Ticket
RMB 50/person, Diving: RMB 150/person.

Around Landscape
Guantou Ridge Tourism Resort, Beihai Silver Beach, Draining Curtain, Underwater Colored Ribbon, Shankou Mangrove Nature Reserve, The Star Island Lake, etc.

Local Snacks and Specialties
Pearl, Peanut worm, Sea cucumber, Meretrix Lusoria, Ballot's Saucer Scallop, Sea snake, Dugong, Lancelet, Horseshoe crabs, Oyster, Sepia, Sea horse, Prawn, Firecracker & fireworks, Longan, Chicken Mouth Lychee of Xiang Mountain.

Travel Tips
Some scenic area on Weizhou Island will be submerged when flood tide is from 14:00 to 22:00 so suggest living on island one night.
Please take sunbonnet, sunglass, umbrella, and suntan oil in summer.

Distance
Beijing (2576 km) Nanning City (229 km) Beihai City (36 sea-mile) Wenzhou Island