7 Days Chaoshan Authentic Food Tour

Meals: Dinner   
Accommodation: In Chaozhou

Upon arrival, you will be met by our local tour guide at Chaoshan High-speed Train Station or Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport, and transfer to check in your hotel. Welcome to Chaozhou, the capital of Chinese porcelain, the hometown of national pearl embroidery, an important birthplace of Chaoshan culture.

Chaozhou City View

In the afternoon, we will have a walk tour in Chaozhou Old Town, visiting the 650-year-old Guangji City Gate Tower, historical Guangji Bridge. Walk into Zaiyang Tea House to enjoy a local tea break, sipping the authentic Chaoshan tea, listening to the local tune, and enjoying a relaxing time. And then follow the guide to visit the century-old archway street and Chaozhou ancient residential complex – Taiping Road and Jiadi Alley, where you will hunt for the delicious Chaozhou snacks and experience the local life.

The authentic Chaoshan Setay Beef Hot Pot will be arranged as your dinner. It is feasible to go to enjoy the light feast on both sides of the river and the “light and shadow show” of Guangji Bridge (depends on the availability) before back to your hotel.

Chaoshan Setay Beef Hot Pot

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Shantou

Check out after breakfast, and we will visit the Hanwen Shrine. This ancestral hall was built to worship Han Yu, a famous poet in China. Then walk into the Chaozhou Folk Museum, telling us that the ancestors of Chaozhou have multiplied from generation to generation. At noon time we will have the Brine Whole Goose Banquet at a famous restaurant. Chaoshan brine goose is famous all over the world, is the most classic dish in Chaoshan cuisine.

Enjoy an authentic Chaozhou lunch, go to visit the former residence of Chen Cihong, known as the “first overseas Chinese residence in Lingnan”. Covering an area of 6,861 square meters, the magnificent architectural scale, the combination of Chinese and Western architectural art, it shows all the traditional patterns of Chaoshan.

Then drive to Shantou City, a coastal city known as “the gateway of Lingdong and the gateway of South China” (about 40 minutes by car).

Former Residence of Chen Cihong

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Shantou

Today is a culture and food exploring day.

After breakfast, drive to Shantou Square Ferry Terminal, where you will take a ferry to enjoy the beautiful scenery of one bay and two banks. Then move to Queshi Scenic Area, and take the cable car slowly up to the highest point of Shantou, having a bird's eye view of Shantou.

After that, continue our visit to the Chaoshan Culture Expo Center, a new landmark and highlight in Shantou; With a construction area of about 56,500 square meters, facing Shantou Bay, it is the core building of Chaoshan History and Culture Expo Park. The return journey passes through the Shantou Bay Tunnel, which is the world's first large-diameter shield submarine tunnel located in the 8-degree seismic intensity area, and the first shield submarine tunnel of the largest underwater highway project in China.

Chaoshan Culture Expo Center

Have Chao-style abalone feast for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch, go to the Tuo Cheng Small Park which is the center of Old Shantou, experience a piece of history. Here we can see the old Shantou landmark buildings – Nansheng Department Store and Shantou Old Post Office, etc., full of historical memories. Enjoy a visit to the Shantou Postal Service building (1st floor) which was completed in 1922 and is one of the two best-preserved postal buildings in Guangdong using the European architectural style.

Then walk into a Chaoshan Cuisine Street — Zhengbang Road, where you can hunt for various time-honored local food and snacks.

Chaoshan Beef Ball

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Meizhou

After breakfast, we will depart for Meizhou, the world capital of Hakka (about 2 hours by car).

Continue our tour to Hakka World Scenic Area, which is a Hakka cultural eco-tourism industrial park, based on Meizhou's original natural landscape and profound Hakka culture, integrating scientific research, education, training, ecology, culture, leisure, vacation, residence and tourism etc. The architectural style here reproduces the essence of Hakka architecture, blends the new Hakka architecture into the landscape, and becomes a miracle of Chinese architectural culture, and is also a beautiful Chinese Hakka folk landscape painting.

Hakka World Scenic Area

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: In Meizhou

After breakfast, visit Tai Po County, which is regarded as the Shangri-La of Hakka World. Go to Tai Po Calyx Building, located in Lianfeng Village, Dadong Town, Dapo County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, built in the 36th year of the Wanli Ming Dynasty (1608), nearly 400 years ago,  which has the exquisite design and unique structure, showing the Hakka people's concept of complete, united, average and equal life, and have certain significance for the study of ancient Hakka residential architecture and Hakka folklore.

Tai Po Calyx Building

After lunch, visit Yannanfei Scenic Area, and enjoy the beautiful scenery walking here. Then Visit Qiaoxi Ancient Rhyme Bridge at Qiaoxi Village. The Hakka residential buildings in the village are surrounded by mountains and rivers. Small bridges, streams, ancient trees and houses in the entire village constitute a beautiful rural scenery of Hakka mountain villages.

Yannanfei Scenic Area

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch 
Accommodation: In Meizhou

After breakfast, go to Xingning City to visit Shenguangshan National Forest Park, located in Shenguang Village, Fuxing Street, Xingning City, Guangdong Province, which is a famous religious and cultural tourist attraction in eastern Guangdong.

 After lunch, go to Xihe Bay Tourism and Cultural Industrial Park. Xihe Bay Kexiang Cultural Tourism Industrial Park is the world's only characteristic lantern appreciation culture, the first tall lantern building, the first lantern culture museum, the first pavilion expo park, and the first people's cultural museum. 

Xihe Bay Tourism and Cultural Industrial Park

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, visit Thousand Buddha Pagoda Temple, which has a history of more than a thousand years, where you will see a pagoda on the pagoda, and pagoda overlapping pagoda (about 40 minutes visit). Then we will arrive the Chinese Hakka Museum (about 50 minutes to visit), where you will understand the Hakka culture in one day. The museum is the only national thematic museum in China to collect, research, display and inherit Hakka culture, and it is also a collection of Hakka architecture, Hakka art, Hakka folklore, Hakka custom.

China Hakka Museum

After that, you will be transferred to the airport or train station for departure.

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