"Xiamen - a pleasant city" a Xiamen Travel Page by claude-andre

Xiamen is a big and modern city at the seaside. In the recent past it was a forbidden city because of the tensions between red China and Taiwan. Now the municipality desires to promote tourism and has a true care of ecology.
It has a pleasant colonial old town, a very interesting botanical garden and is home to a very old temple (Nanputuo).

Xiamen is also a modern Chinese town. I'm not very impressed by modernity in China. I prefer old streets that are often very lively.

Statue of the Egret on the Lake in Bailuzhou Park. Bailuzhou Park has good restaurants, antiques and curios shops.