🌊1. Xiapu, Fujian: A fairytale kingdom on the mudflats, 500+ per person to have fun!
🚅High-speed rail direct access: Xiapu Station (5h in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai/7h in Guangzhou and Shenzhen)
💰Budget reference (2 adults and 1 child/2 days and 1 night):
- Transportation: 600 yuan for round trip high-speed rail (free for children) + 30 yuan for taxi
- Accommodation: 80 yuan per person per night for a homestay with a view of the sea through the window, 200 yuan for a family room✔️
- Dining: 50 yuan per person per meal at a seafood food stall, 10 yuan per person for snacks
- Fun: 10 yuan for renting tools for catching fish, 30 yuan per person for feeding seagulls on a fishing boat, total cost ≈ 1,000 yuan, the price-performance ratio is better than Sanya!
🌟Recommended attractions:
- Xiaohao mudflats: Take your kids to dig clams and pick up shells at low tide, the golden sunset is so beautiful!
- Dongbi Village Cliff Plank Road: A suspended sea-viewing trail, every picture is a National Geographic blockbuster📸
- Tianhu Grassland on Yishan Island: A mountaintop lake + a thousand acres of grassland, like breaking into a Windows desktop! Hidden gameplay: In August, during the seaweed season, learn to pull nets from fishermen, and your child will become a "little fisherman" and feel a sense of accomplishment~
📆Route arrangement:
Day1: High-speed rail arrival → Luggage storage at the B&B → Go to the Xiaohao Beach to catch the sea (15:00-18:00 is best) → Seafood food stalls
Day2: Dongbi Village Cliff Plank Road → Take a fishing boat to feed seagulls → Hiking at Tianhu on Yishan Island → Return
🦀Food check-in:
- Minnan paste: shrimp + oysters + starch paste, so fresh that it makes your eyebrows drop!
- Oyster omelette: crispy and fragrant, the child ate 3 pieces in a row~
- Sweet potato cup: sweet and sticky sweet potato with peanut filling, 5 yuan/piece as a snack
🏡Accommodation recommendation:
- Shijianhai B&B: cliff infinity pool + children's playground, parent-child room with bathtub🛁
- Houhai B&B: 3 minutes walk to the beach, the landlord will give you a map of catching the beach!
🌿2. Zhenyuan, Guizhou: a thousand-year-old ancient town with mountains and rivers, the best place for taking your kids out for a summer vacation!
🚅High-speed rail direct access: Sansui Station (40 minutes by bus)
💰Budget reference (2 adults and 1 child/2 days and 1 night):
- Transportation: 800 yuan for round trip high-speed rail + 40 yuan per person for bus
- Accommodation: 120 yuan per night for stilt house on Wuyang River🌉
- Dining: 40 yuan per person for sour soup fish, 5 yuan for snacks
- Fun: 50 yuan for Miao silver handmade, 15 yuan per hour for electric car, total cost ≈ 1,200 yuan, half less than that of Guiyang people!
🌟 Recommended attractions:
- Night tour of Wuyang River: Thousands of lanterns are as bright as "Spirited Away", take a boat to listen to Miao folk songs~
- Shiping Mountain Ancient Alley (navigation here! Free admission): bluestone road + old houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties, avoid tour groups!
- Catch rice fish in rice fields: Take your kids to jump into mud pits to catch fish, and you can grill the fish to eat🐟Avoid pit guide: Qinglong Cave is free after 5pm, and the night view is more dreamy!
📆Route arrangement:
Day1: High-speed rail → bus to Zhenyuan → rent an electric car to go around the ancient city → catch fish in rice fields → night tour of Wuyang River
Day2: Shiping Mountain Ancient Alley → Miao Silver Workshop Bracelet Making → Qinglong Cave Exploration → Return
🍜Food Check-in:
- Sour Soup Fish: Litsea cubeba + tomato fermentation, sour and spicy appetizer!
- Braised Pork with a Dish: Intangible Cultural Heritage Food, Fatty but Not Greasy, Very Good with Rice~
- Glutinous Rice Cake: Sold on a cart on the roadside, wrapped in soybean powder and fragrant!
🏡Accommodation recommendation:
- Daheguan Inn: The balcony faces the river view, and you can watch the fishing fire and listen to the sound of water at night💤
- Qingtai B&B: There is a swing in the courtyard, and free Miao costumes are provided for taking photos!
🏖️3. Yantai, Shandong: A paradise for sea catching and sand digging, the Little Madai in the north!
🚅High-speed rail direct access: Yantai Station (Beijing 4h/Shanghai 5h)
💰Budget reference (2 adults and 1 child/2 days and 1 night):
- Transportation: High-speed rail round trip 1,000 yuan + taxi 50 yuan
- Accommodation: Yangma Island Seaview B&B 200 yuan/night
- Dining: Seafood 60 yuan per person, Spanish mackerel dumplings are enough!
- Fun: Rent a bicycle to go around the island for 20 yuan/hour, the total cost is ≈ 1,500 yuan, seafood freedom is not a dream~
🌟Recommended attractions:
- Yangma Island Sea Cycling: Rent a parent-child bicycle, check in the pink shell beach and conch cave along the way!
- Yantai-Dalian Beach: The sand is fine and the water is shallow, super safe, the child digs sand for 2 hours without moving🏖️
- Penglai Ocean Polar World: Beluga performance + underwater tunnel, cool and fun! Hidden gameplay: Go to Jiahe Bridge Beach to dig razor clams at low tide (bring your own salt bottle and sprinkle salt to make it pop up!)
📆Route arrangement:
Day1: High-speed rail to Yantai → Yangma Island Sea Cycling → Playing in the sand at the beach → Eating barbecue at the night market
Day2: Jiahe Bridge Sea Catch → Penglai Oceanarium → Return
🦪Food check-in:
- Spanish mackerel dumplings: one as big as a palm! The fish is so tender that it bursts with juice💦
- Grilled squid: Whole freshly grilled + secret sauce, 15 yuan/piece!
- Steamed sea urchin egg: Buy at Yangma Island Pier, 10 yuan/piece, fresh, sweet and tender~
🏡 Accommodation recommendation:
- Island Diary: Pure white ins style, 1 minute walk to the beach!
- Small fishing village homestay: The landlord takes you to the sea, and gives you a sand digging tool bucket~
💡 Travel tips:
1. Equipment list: portable sea-hunting tools, sun hats, children's slippers, folding carts (must-have for the cobblestone road in the ancient town);
2. Ticket grabbing skills: 15 days in advance 12306 to wait for "children's tickets", free tickets for children under 6 years old but need to be reported;
3. Peak-shifting guide: Xiapu avoids the first/fifteenth high tide of the lunar calendar, and Zhenyuan night tour chooses Sunday when there are fewer people!
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