Complimented by tourists, Yalong Bay is called as China’s Hawaii. In a sense, Yalong Bay is a symbol of Sanya. Whenever tourists marvel at the beauty of Sanya, what appears in their mind is the water and beach at Yalong Bay.
Approved for construction in October 1992, the Yalong Bay, covered with 18.6 square kms, is the only state-level tropical seaside resort.
The most striking view of the bay is the sea and the beach. The seawater is crystal clear with visibility as far down as 10 meters .Under the surface is colourful tropical fish, making it an ideal destination for divers.
After 10 years of construction, Yalong Bay has built into a first-rate national tourism and recreational resort. It has six hotels at five-star and four-star level, a golf course, a lido, luxurious villas, conference center, an underwater world, an on-the-sea center, a yacht club, etc., providing tourists a complete range of catering, accommodation, travelling, and shopping and recreational service.
The landmark in the bay is the central square, where stands a 26.8-meter high stone pillar engraved with the gods of the sun, wind, rain, thunder and lightning as well as auspicious animals in Chinese culture.
There are two more tourist attractions in Yalong Bay-the Sea Shell Museum and Butterfly Park. The Sea shell Museum, the first of its kind in China, has a vast collection of all kinds of sea shells and coral retrieved from the world oceans. The Butterfly Park actually is a gigantic steel-wire net, in which tourists would be able to see all butterflies fluttering around you.
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