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Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design (Gulangyu Campus) - Fuzhou University

福州大学厦门工艺美术学院(鼓浪屿校区)

Has some beautiful granite sculptures. A very old Buddhist temple is nearby.

Address: 151 Kangtai Road (康泰路151号)
Getting there: on the west side of the island
Website: art.fzu.edu.cn (opens in a new tab)

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Listing from Wikivoyage: Xiamen/Gulangyu, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Mr Lin Shachamian
林氏沙茶面(鼓浪屿店)
Local branch of the well regarded shacha (satay) noodle chain. Their specialty is the luxurious seafood version with abalone (鲍鱼海鲜沙茶面), but the meat version is quite tasty as well.
Closed · opens 10 am¥50
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Shell Dream World
贝壳梦幻世界
Part theme park, part museum. The museum is said to contain over 6800 varieties of seashells from over 60 different countries.
08:30-18:00 (summer), 08:30-17:20 (winter)¥78 (standard adult entry fee), ¥40 (persons aged between 60 and 69 as well as children between 1.2 and 1.5 metres in height). Children under 1.2 metres in height and persons over 70 years old are admitted for free. Tickets are cheaper if purchased online
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Gulangyu Aviary
鼓浪屿百鸟园
Over 1000 birds from over 100 countries. Many peacocks, including a rare Albino, several types of cranes, lots of ducks/geese, and other large birds (e.g. emus). Watch for falling excrement. Aviary performances take place several times per day, including at 09:30, 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00.
Closed · opens 7 am¥60 (Sunlight Rock admission fee)
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Koxinga Memorial Museum
郑成功纪念馆, Koxinga Memorial Hall
A rather small museum dedicted to Zheng Chenggong, or Koxinga as he is generally known in the West, who made his mark in history by driving the Dutch out of Taiwan in the 1660s. His headquarters were on Dragon Head Hill at the south end of Gulangyu; a watchtower and some other fortifications remain, and the statue is nearby (see listing below). Having defeated the foreign devils, Koxinga is one of the few people regarded as a hero by the current governments of both China and Taiwan. Things the museum's account (Chinese only) does not mention are that his father, a seafaring merchant from the Quanzhou area, dabbled in piracy and that his mother was Japanese. As the Manchu conquerors who became the Qing dynasty moved south, the father surrendered and became a Qing official, but the son remained loyal to the Ming and fought on; at one point, his armies got as far as menacing Nanjing. Eventually, he found himself defeated on the mainland so he went off, bringing most of his army, and took over Taiwan. Koxinga's arrival was the first major Chinese incursion into Taiwan; many of his troops stayed and settled. This was followed by a surge of other immigration, mainly from the Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou areas. Modern Taiwanese is essentially the Minnan dialect of those cities.
Tue-Sun 08:30-16:45Free