A port city in Guangxi Province in southern China, Beihai is famous for its white sandy beaches, pearls, and shell art. Opened to foreign investment in 1984, the city has large shipbuilding, food-processing, and marine product manufacturing facilities, and has acquired a reputation for harboring modern pirates. The chief pearl grounds of China are in nearby waters.
Dongpo Pavilion, built in honor of Su Dongpo, a famous poet of the Song Dynasty (960-1127), is located on the campus of Beihai’s Hepu Normal School. Drinking from the well east of the Pavilion is said to bring good luck to exam takers.
The seven-tier, hollow Wenchang Pagoda, which was built in 1613 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is located three kilometers from Hepu County. The Pagoda was built according to the principles of Feng Shui to enhance scholarly honor and career advancement.
What to eat in Beihai? Tigerfish soup, salt shrimp, braised Li fish or spiral shells, pu fish with plums, and -- burned sand worm!
What to see? How about going to the Aquatic Products Museum in the Seashore Park? You can view 2,800 sea fauna and over 670 specimens arranged according to the evolutionary order of living beings. Special features: a Dugong, colloquially called mermaid, about 2 meters (about 6.6 feet) long and a 600-year old turtle that weighs 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds).
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