5 Days Kaiping Itinerary: Best Places to Visit in Kaiping

Day 1

Kaiping Diaolou

Opening Hours: 8:30-17:30

Ticket Price: 4 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 1-2 Days

Location: Tangkou Liyuan Tourist Area, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

The Kaiping Diaolou is a series of small fortresses and defensive towers located throughout Jiangmen's Kaiping. This is the famous hometown of countless overseas Chinese scattered around the world. Mixing Chinese and western architectural styles, these towers are distributed across the landscape. Many of them can be entered and some can even be climbed. This is a very worthwhile place to visit. Numerous scenes from the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" were filmed here. Three of the primary attractions in the area include the Li Garden, the Majianglong Ancient Village and Zili Village. The Li Garden is a garden villa, which was built early in the 20th century while Majianglong Ancient Village and Zili Village are two of the primary locations to see Diaolou fortresses.

Reviews from Real Guests:

MaxS: Incredible! I can't express my feelings after visiting those areas. Briefly, the Guangdong rural area has such heritage as tall and slim buildings named Diaolou. But by Chinese immigrants returnees they reflect multi cultural influence in style mix. That's amazing. The atmosphere is awesome!

Day 1 | Evening

For convenient access to more popular attractions, Xinhui Country Garden Phoenix Hotel is the best places.

Xinhui Country Garden Phoenix Hotel

The Phoenix Hotel Xinhui (Jiangmen Xinhui Fenghuang Jiudian) is located near several local attractions including the Guifengshan National Forest Park, the Liangqichao Memorial Hall and a local bus station.

Stepping into the hotel, guests are welcomed by a domed ceiling, long corridors and attractive reproductions of Sistine Chapel frescoes.

Guests can take advantage of the sauna, massage services, karaoke, billiards, chess and cards available to them to make the most of their free time.

International guests will find the hotel helpful in assisting with payment options with international credit cards accepted. Also free Wi-Fi throughout the premises means guests can stay tuned with constant updates for business or pleasure.

Day 2 | Morning

Liyuan

Opening Hours: 8:30-17:30

Ticket Price: 100 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 2-3 Hours

Location: Genghua Village, Beiyi Township, Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

 Located in Beiyi Township, Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, Liyuan is a private garden built by Mr. Xie Weili, a Chinese overseas Chinese who spent 10 years abroad, and the garden was established in 1936. This garden combines traditional gardens, Lingnan Water Village and Western architectural styles to create a changing sense of space rhythm. The park is divided into three parts: large gardens, small gardens and villa areas. Each is made up of artificial rivers, bridge pavilions and corridors. Auxiliary landscape connections form a unique landscape with gardens and terrain.

Day 2 | Afternoon

Now we come to another great highlight in the city: Watchtower Group of Zili Village.

Watchtower Group of Zili Village

Opening Hours: Open from 01/01-12/31,8:40am-5:15pm

Ticket Price: 78 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 2-2 Hours

Location: Tangkou Liyuan Tourist Area, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

Zili Village is located in Tangkou Town, and is famous for its vast flower fields and sacred buildings throughout the rapeseed. Zili Village takes the meaning of “self-sufficiency”, the village has beautiful scenery and has many beautiful buildings with unique styles. It is a beautiful and simple style. It is worth mentioning that this is the main location for the "Bullet Flying" which sets the record for domestic movie box office.

Reviews from Real Guests:

FRANKIE YEUNG: It is really a characteristic building group and has a sense of historical heritage.

Day 2 | Evening

For convenient access to more popular attractions, Wanda Realm Jiangmen is the best places.

Wanda Realm Jiangmen

Located on Jiangmen’s main avenue in the new Central Business District, the luxurious Wanda Realm hotel offers spacious accommodation, tempting onsite dining and fantastic business and leisure facilities. The hotel is connected to the Wanda Plaza Shopping Mall, providing exciting leisure activities, many shops and the well-known Wanda Kidsplace. Jiangmen also provides numerous scenic spots, and from here it’s easy to access the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen via the nearby high-speed train.
Guests can choose from of four innovative wining and dining venues, including the all-day dining option in Café Realm, with its international buffet and fine western a la carte menu, and the Grab & Go breakfast in the morning. Indulge yourself with BBQ and Shao Mai in the Hong Kong kitchen on the first floor, or treat your friends and colleagues to a meal in the signature restaurant ZHEN. This restaurant features ten private dining rooms and one public room and offers a range of authentic Cantonese and local dishes. After all of this, you can unwind with a cigar or a glass of wine with live music in the lobby lounge.

Day 3 | Morning

Ma-Xianglong Towers Group

Opening Hours: 8:30-17:30

Ticket Price: 50 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 2-3 Hours

Location: Baihe Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

The Ma-Xianglong Towers Group is an ancient village full of Lingnan style. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, it is backed by the majestic Baizu Mountain. It is adjacent to the crystal clear Taojiang River. The bamboo is dense and the scenery is very beautiful. The well-preserved ancient towers are nestled between the mountains and forests, with a patchwork and unique scenery. Most of the styles of the towers are Chinese and Western. The locations of the different towers are scattered. The passages in the area are mostly quiet bamboo forest trails. The representative is the Tianlu Building. The momentum is quite straight and stands upright with the bamboo forest, which is quite popular among tourists.

Day 3 | Afternoon

Now we come to another great highlight in the city: Chikan Ancient Town Movie & Television Town.

Chikan Ancient Town Movie & Television Town

Opening Hours: Open from 8:30am-5:30pm

Ticket Price: 20 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 1-3 Hours

Location: Chikan Town, Chikan Town, Kaiping City

Chikan Film and Television City is located in Shangbu, Chikan Town, Kaiping City, Guangdong Province. It was built in 2004 and covers an area of more than 6,000 square meters. The overall building is designed and constructed according to the plot and scenes of the TV series "Three Family Alleys". The main buildings include "foreign comprador" Chen's Western Building, the mansion of the feudal landlord He's family and the Zhou family's house of the petty bourgeoisie, as well as the police station and underground party activity venues at that time, were built in full accordance with the architectural style of the 1920s. The film and television city is skillfully integrated with the famous arcade-style ancient buildings in the east, which enriches the architectural culture and historical connotation of the "European Style Street" and makes the ancient city more charming.

Day 3 | Evening

If you want to explore other popular attractions later, Wanda Realm Heshan is a suitable place for you to stay and refresh.

Wanda Realm Heshan

Opened in 2019, the Wanda Realm Heshan is a great accommodation choice in Heshan.

This hotel makes a great place to kick back and relax after a long day of sightseeing. This Heshan hotel provides parking on site.

Germaphobes can rest easy - the level of cleanliness is highly rated at this hotel. This hotel is a popular accommodation for guests traveling with families.

Day 4 | Morning

Jinjiangli Towers Group

Opening Hours: 9:10-17:00

Ticket Price: 50 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 1-2 Hours

Location: Xian'gang Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

There are several attractive towers in the Jinjiangli Towers Group, namely Shengfeng Building, Jinjiang Building and Ruishi Building. The Ruishi Building was built around the year 1923. It is a tall building in the existing building in Kaiping. It is also a typical detachable building. Ruishilou is a masterpiece of Kaiping's building technology. No matter the overall shape or the details of the building, the interior decoration is very elegant. The interior decoration of the building is based on the Lingnan architectural style. The furniture is made of the good materials such as the rosewood. The test of the hot and humid climate for more than a hundred years, but it has been well preserved and almost never undergone repairs, is indeed a rare architectural heritage.

Day 4 | Afternoon

After finishing the tour at Jinjiangli Towers Group, you can head to Chikan Building, the most worth visiting place around the corner.

Chikan Building

Ticket Price: 10 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 1-1 Hours

Location: Tengyu Village, Chikan Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen CityTengyu Village, Chikan Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

Reviews from Real Guests:

FRANKIE YEUNG: In order to protect the villagers during the War of Resistance, the statues of the seven martyrs are all systematized and can be used for the purpose of fighting

Day 4 | Evening

Don’t forget to book Gladden Hotel in advance, because all the tourists head to Chikan Building love staying at it.

Gladden Hotel

The Gladden Hotel (Mingguan Jinkaiyue Dajiudian) is host to a variety of facilities including several presidential suites, an opera house and a grand function hall. Outdoor and indoor swimming pools give guests the option of tanning poolside, while the fitness center, billiards room, nightclub, massage rooms and saunas round out the other recreational offerings. Dining options are extensive and include Chinese, Western, Japanese and Korean cuisines. Also at guests' disposal are a commercial center, Wi-Fi access, car rental, shoe shine service, airport pickup and currency exchange services.

Day 5 | Morning

Huashui Village Tourist Scenic Spot

Opening Hours: Open from 9:00am-6:00pm

Ticket Price: 48 RMB

Location: No. 2, Daxiao Dongkeng, Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City

Huashuizhai Tourist Area is located in Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, adjacent to the World Cultural Heritage Zili Village Diaolou Community. The combination of movement and stillness in the scenic area takes flowers and water as the theme, and flowers and waters complement each other. There are more than 100,000 impatiens in the whole park, and there are various landscape trees and plants as a foil. The combination of movement and stillness in the scenic area takes flowers and water as the theme, and flowers and waters complement each other. Among them, there is also a "water bar", which is built near the water, highlighting the style of a fisherman. The cool breeze in the pond is also a good place for leisure fishing and relaxation. The main water amusement projects in the scenic area are "electric bumper boat", "childlike water roller", "romantic multi-person, double pedal boat", "stimulating water bicycle", etc., which are good places for adults and children to play and have fun. A place that will make you happy and unforgettable. In the parent-child catching fish project, catching fish in the pond in the original way can make people endlessly entertained, never tired of it, linger, and experience the pure pond wild fun. The throwing entertainment street projects include "shooting", "shooting the gantry", "air gun", "throwing darts", "shooting bows and arrows", "slingshots", "throwing bamboo circles" and other small games, making you happy In the sound, play freely, experience the fun of childhood, and enjoy a touch of youth.

Day 5 | Afternoon

When time permits after visiting Huashui Village Tourist Scenic Spot, don’t forget pay a visit to Jinghui Building.

Jinghui Building

Ticket Price: 10 RMB

Recommended Length of Stay: 2-2 Hours

Location: 47 Dixi Rd, Kaiping Shi, Jiangmen Shi, Guangdong Sheng, China

Jinghui Building is located on a European style street in Chikan Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. It is adjacent to the Chikan Film and Television Building. It is named after the famous doctor Zhang Jinghui and has a long history.

* All reviews in the blog are machine-translated.