Best Cycling Spots in Guangdong, China

There are many popular ways to travel nowadays, apart from joining a tour group, self-driving, hiking and cycling are also very popular. When it comes to cycling, you can choose routes or attractions that are not too far away, which can not only exercise your body but also see the beautiful scenery around you. What a great combination!

Huizhou West Lake (Honghua Lake Greenway)

Best Cycling Spots in Guangdong, China

Huizhou West Lake consists of West Lake and Honghua Lake Scenic Area, known for its six lakes, nine bridges and eighteen scenic spots. Huizhou West Lake is very suitable for cycling tours. Cycling along the lake embankment of West Lake, you can visit all the “five lakes, six bridges and eighteen scenic spots”. The five lakes of Feng Lake, Ping Lake, Ling Lake, Crocodile Lake and Nan Lake are connected, with towering mountains, clear streams and emerald green, and natural wild interest reflected in the paintings, which will surely bring you a new experience of boating. Another best cycling spot in Huizhou West Lake Scenic Area is in Honghua Lake Scenic Area. Honghua Lake Scenic Area has an 18-kilometer circular greenway around the lake. There are many cycling service points and rest areas in the Honghua Lake Greenway, with pavilions, stone benches, convenience stores and toilets. It is the “permanent residence” of many cyclists in Huizhou. The Huizhou West Lake Honghua Lake Greenway is part of the JiangmenFoshanGuangzhouDongguan → Huizhou cycling route. This route starts from Emperor Capital Hot Springs in Jiangmen, passes through Jiangmen Diaolou, Foshan Qinghui Garden, Guangzhou Yuanyinshanfang, Dongguan Kewen Garden, Huizhou West Lake and other nodes to reach Huangshadong Nature Reserve in Hengli, Huizhou.

East Coast Overseas Chinese Town

Best Cycling Spots in Guangdong, China

East Coast Overseas Chinese Town is a national 4A-level tourist attraction, including the Grand Canyon, Tea Creek Valley, Cloud Sea Valley and Interlaken Hot Springs themed scenic spots. East Coast Overseas Chinese Town is also a good place for cycling tours. The best time to cycle is in spring, experiencing the unique fun of spring cycling in the natural environment of East Coast Overseas Chinese Town. East Coast Overseas Chinese Town has a quiet and peaceful bamboo forest path, a 6-kilometer long original ecological wooden plank road and 340 acres of lush tea fields. The characteristic mountain bike project of East Coast Overseas Chinese Town is built on the basis of Shenzhen’s first 3.3-kilometer long and 3-meter wide sightseeing and environmentally friendly professional mountain bike track. The area has 30 professional mountain bikes and provides professional equipment rentals. The entire track interweaves with the picturesque wetland garden themed scenic spots in Tea Creek Valley, and is built around the “Four Seasons Flower Fields” where there are various flowers. It is now the time when the flowers are in full bloom. While cycling, you can also admire the colorful rows of flower clusters, and your mood will bloom like flowers.

Guangdong First Peak

Best Cycling Spots in Guangdong, China

Guangdong First Peak Tourist Scenic Area is a national 4A-level tourist attraction. The main peak, Shikengkong, is 1902 meters high. There are ancient primeval forests, mysterious mountain gorges, peculiar karst landforms, ubiquitous hot springs, picturesque streams and waterfalls, and the air negative ion content is the highest in Guangdong Province. It is majestic and majestic, steep and beautiful, surrounded by towering peaks, scattered and orderly, naturally ingenious, forming the natural wonders of “magnificent, strange, dangerous, beautiful, vast, mysterious, and secluded” in Guangdong First Peak Tourist Scenic Area. The winding mountain road of Guangdong First Peak is 39 kilometers long, with more than 800 bends. The altitude rises from 200 meters to 1902 meters, higher than Mount Song, Mount Heng and Mount Tai in the Five Great Mountains. Cycling here, you can not only admire the beautiful and peculiar scenery of Guangdong First Peak, but also enjoy the thrill of cycling. The difficulty of cycling is conceivable, and it is most loved by hardcore cycling enthusiasts.

Nansha Wetland Park

Best Cycling Spots in Guangdong, China

Nansha Wetland Park is a coastal wetland characteristic ecological tourism and leisure area integrating ecological sightseeing, science education, cultural film and television, leisure and health, and a national 4A-level tourist attraction. It is the largest wetland park in Guangzhou and a good place to watch lotus flowers and leaves in summer. Nansha Wetland Scenic Area provides tourists with a variety of leisure and recreation facilities. Among them, taking a sightseeing boat, you can admire the mangrove forest, reed swamp, lotus pond, bird’s nest and bird foraging area and other water scenic spots. You can also take a sightseeing car, bicycle or walk to visit the banyan tree greenway, sea view corridor, wilderness walking area and other scenic spots. The recommended cycling route for Nansha Wetland Park is Lotus Pond Landscape → Bird Foraging Area → Reed Area → Sea View Corridor → Mangrove Forest Area → Lotus Area. The greenway of Nansha Wetland Park is part of the Zhaoqing → Foshan → Guangzhou → Zhongshan → Zhuhai (Guangdong No. 1 Greenway), passing through attractions including Seven Star Rock, Sanshui Lotus World, Southern Peach Garden, Yun Donghai, Nansha Wetland Park, Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence and other famous Guangdong attractions.

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