Dajiao Bay
Sand between hills.
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Guangdong's fourth-largest island, 24 kilometres long and one of China's first national marine parks, known for soft sandy beaches and warm water that is good for swimming about eight months a year; it is reached by road from the mainland. Its best-known beach is Dajiao Bay, shaped like a bull's horn, with some two and a half kilometres of sand between green hills; next to it runs Shili Yintan, the «silver beach», about ten kilometres long, and the island also has mangrove forests and Zhapo fishing port. On the silver beach stands the Maritime Silk Road Museum, home to the Nanhai One, a Song-dynasty merchant ship that sank some eight hundred years ago on its way to trade overseas; it was the first ancient vessel found on the Maritime Silk Road and was lifted in 2007, cargo and all, into a huge water hall inside the museum. Dajiao Bay costs CNY 51 from mid-April to October and 26 in winter, the museum 70, open 9 am to 5.30 pm, and combined tickets 130 to 160, per visitor guides.
Sand between hills.
Of the Maritime Silk Road.
Fishing boats.
Dajiao Bay, south-west Hailing Island, about 50 km from central Yangjiang, Guangdong
A Chinese merchant ship of the Southern Song that sank in the South China Sea with tens of thousands of items aboard, most of them porcelain; it is shown whole today in the Maritime Silk Road Museum on the island.
The island is known for seafood and halal restaurants are few, so order fish and seafood cooked without pork, or look in Yangjiang city for restaurants run by Muslims.