Zhangzhou coastal volcano scenic spot is located across Longhai, Zhangpuand Dongshan, adjacent to Chinese Taiwan Strait in the East, Xiamen and Zhangzhou PortArea in the north, and Shantou Special Economic Zone in Guangdong Province inthe south. Its coastline is nearly 300 km long and consists of three peninsulas(Gulei, liuao and Quanwei), many bays and many islands. With convenienttransportation, it is a good tourist attraction. There are mainly five wonders,namely, the landscape of sea eroded volcanic canisters, the landscape ofvolcanic vent group - sea eroded buried lava lake, the landscape of sea erodedbasalt large columnar joints, the landscape of granite spherical weathering seaeroded sky "abstract Gallery", the landscape of sea eroded special wind rockgroup, and the ancient cultural heritage of Southern Fujian with zhaojiapu asthe main body, which constitute the coastal Geopark, the coastal Stone Park, andthe coastal wind park Dongshi Park and Grand View Garden of ancientdwellings.
Zhangzhou coastal volcanic landform National Geopark is one of the firstbatch of 11 National Geoparks in China and the only one with marine landform inChina. It covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers and has a coastlineof more than 20 kilometers. It is mainly distributed in Niutoushan, Linjinyu,Nanding Island, Xiangshan, yandunshan, qianhuwan and other sea areas. Accordingto the investigation of experts, it is confirmed that there were 15 volcaniceruptions in three periods in Zhangzhou coastal area from 26.44 million to 4.1million years ago, which eventually formed a rare, perfect and precious volcaniclandscape in the world. Among them are:
Niutoushan ancient crater sea erosion volcanic landscape - "volcanicbonsai";
Linjinyu volcanic exhalation crater group - the landscape of sea erosionburied lava lake;
The landscape of large columnar joints of sea eroded basalt in Nandingisland is "lava stone forest" and "lava Coral";
The ancient forest remains of qianhuwan more than 8000 years ago;
Xiangshan lava cone scenic spot (the best place to watch the sea, sunrise,Bay Beach);
There are also a large number of unique landscapes, such as volcaniceruption discontinuities, volcanic agglomerates, "watermelon peel" structure,mantle derived xenolith basalts, sea erosion "Overpass", "a line of sky", marine"terracotta warriors" and other scenic spots, forming a diverse, lifelike andlifelike group of rocks.
In Zhangzhou coastal volcano scenic spot, there is also a unique landscapeof sea eroded granite. The landscape here is composed of 23 islands, includingGulai Caiyu archipelago, Shazhou Island, Jing'an island and Hongyu island. Onthe island, there are various kinds of granite wind-driven stone groups withdifferent shapes. In addition, the "abstract Gallery" formed by the sea erodedstone landform and granite spherical weathered stone in Laoya mountain of liuaohas high tourism value.
In Zhangzhou coastal volcano scenic spot, many beaches along the coast,such as Qisha Bay, Houcai Bay, Jiangkou Bay, Jiangjun Bay and DAAO Bay, arecrescent shaped, with small slope, fine sand, snow white and no mud. Besides,there is no pollution in the surrounding environment and no shark disturbance inthe coastal area. The beach here is large in scale, excellent in quality andbeautiful in scenery. It is the best gold coast on the coastline of East andSouth China Sea.
Rich historical and cultural heritage is another feature of Zhangzhoucoastal volcano scenic area
Two national cultural relics protection units, zhaojiabao and yiancheng,and six provincial cultural relics protection units, form a concentrated andcontinuous cultural tourism route: zhaojiabao is the descendant of the king ofZhao and Song Dynasties, and lived together during the Wanli period of MingDynasty__ The castle built in 1949 has a grand scale, unique layout and richculture. Yi'an city has a well preserved, scientific planning and reasonablelayout of the city walls and ancient buildings. Moreover, the owner of thecastle is closely related to the history of Chinese Taiwan. The key cultural relicsprotection units at the provincial level are lantingzhen mansion, zhenhaiwei,one of the "four Davids" in the Ming Dynasty, huangdaozhou lecture hall built390 years ago to teach the book of changes, Shigou Tiandi pan, huangdaozhoutomb, Jinjiang tower, a three circle and four story round earth building, andliuao ancient city built 600 years ago and well preserved.