Wuzhizhou Islet and Nantian Hot Spring in one tour from Sanya

As a back garden of Sanya city, Nantian Hot Spring faces the mysterious Wuzhizhou Island across the sea, bordering the Monkey Island on the Southern Bay in the east and the Yalong Bay in the south, located on the Haitang golden triangle on the eastern coast. It has been planned into an international tropical tourism city. Nantian Hot Spring has the desirable medical value concentration standard and is a luorosilicic remedy hot mineral water field.

Sanya is on the southernmost point of China, at the tip of Hainan island. Billed as "China's Hawaii", Sanya has 20km long stretches of beach. As the only tropical city across the coastline, it is definitely booming and packed with a lot of water sports such as snorkeling and jet-skiing, rainforest hiking, and innumerable hotels ranging from zero to five stars.Its islands and beaches are beautiful and the water in Yalong Bay and Dadonghai are clean enough to have a good swim, but you may also want to head to Wuzhizhou Island or further north to visit unspoiled and natural scenery.

Wuzhizhou Island, in Haitang Bay, has an area of some 148 hectares (366 acres). With an irregular butterfly-like shape and a total coastline of 5.7 km (3.5 miles), the island is about 38 km (24 miles) north-east of Sanya City. The island was known as Guqizhou Island in ancient times and the earliest records date from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), when a temple was built to commemorate the originator of Chinese characters, Cang Jie. Following the Qing Government's fall from power, the villagers rebuilt the temple to honor the Goddess Matsu, who bestowed good fortune on the local fishermen. From 1949 this island became an important strategic defense zone. However, from the 1990s, the island began to enjoy a completely new role as a romantic place for holiday and leisure.