Every tourist to China has always had a story about the car or several and rarely positive about Gulangyu, an island off the coast of Xiamen, it could be the only quiet place left in China is obsessed with cars.
Gulangyu, home to about 16 thousand people on one square kilometer of land, famous for having no motor vehicle (with some exceptions). Bicycles were not there. No horns, traffic, the experience is almost an accident. Could this place called China? This hilly island as a half Havana, half-Hawaiian beautiful dream walkers.
To get into Gulangyu, you need to do an air traffic around 75 minutes from Hongkong or about 496 km. But when you got there, its a beautiful city to miss. And this island is one of favorite site for wedding photography.
From Xiamen airport, tourists can take a taxi to the port and takes about 30 minutes. At the port, has lined boat motors back and forth every 5 minutes or so to the island of Gulangyu.
Dozens of colonial buildings and even dozens of office buildings, residential, schools, shops, hospitals, and churches are still standing. Formerly, the various consulates of 13 countries established here such as Britain, France and Japan.
Entire buildings are still functioned. Only, the allotment has been diverted to tourist interests such as museums, the puppet theater or school. Some are also used for shelter residents. The total population on the island of 20,000 souls.