Night Tour on Pearl River yacht, view and admire the beautiful shades of the Pearl River, visit Zhujiang Corridor,entrace to the source of the ancient myths and legends of the Pearl River, and look back on the millennia-old history and culture of Guangzhou.

The Pearl river, is 110 mi (177 km) long, Formed in Guangzhou by the confluence of the Xi and Bei rivers, it flows east, then south, past Guangzhou and Huangpu island to form a large estuary between Hong Kong and Macao. The river links Guangzhou to Hong Kong and the South China Sea, is one of China's most important waterways, and is one of the centers of its world trade. It is vitally important to the special economic zones that lie along its estuary. The estuary, called Boca Tigris, is kept open for ocean vessels by dredging.

Yuexiu Park is the largest park in downtown Guangzhou. Covering an area of 860,000 square meters (212.5 acres), the park is made up of three artificial lakes and seven hills of Yuexiu Mountain; hence the name Yuexiu Park.

Situated at the Yuexie Hill in the northern part of Guangzhou, the Yue Xiu Park is the largest one in Guangzhou encompassing 92.8 hectares. Before 1949, it was a place of bleak hills for cemetery and a haunt for gangsters. After 1949, the people's government mobilized the local people to plant trees and afforest the hills, and built a stadium, swimming centre, an amusement centre, an art gallery, a flower exhibition, hall and other cultural and recreational grounds while protecting and renovation the original historical relics. Inside the park there are the" Dominating Sea Tower," "the Seaman's Pavilion," " Dr Sun Yat-sen's Monument," "the Five-Goat Statue" and other tourist attractions.

In addition, there are three artificial lakes in the park. The Dongxiu Lake has an exquisite setting, an excellent site for painting and scenery viewing. The Beixiu Lake consists of three smaller lakes spanned by stone arch-bridges with small islets built in the middle of the lake to contrast with the pavilions by the lakeside, thus making the whole picture all the more fascinating. Tourists can rent boats for rowing around and enjoy the beautiful surrounding scenery. More than one million threes have been planted over the Yuexiu Hill including cypresses, pines, kapoks, magnolias and some other 600 varieties of trees. Also seen in the park are many nurseries for cultivating cassias, roses, peonies, and other flowers. The park also puts on chrysanthemum shows and flower exhibitions every spring and autumn.

Construction of the memorial hall started in January 1929 and it was completed in October 1931. The overseas Chinese and the citizens of Guangzhou built it on the donations, in memory of Dr Sun Yat-sen( 1866-1925) the forerunner of the Chinese revolution.

This was the original place where the governor's house of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of the Qing Dynasty were seated, and used as the presidential house in which Dr Sun Yat-sen held the office of provisional president in 1921. Lu Yanzi (1894-1929), a famous young Chinese architect, designed the memorial hall. The hall is an octagonal palace-like building was built of steel and reinforced. Owing to the skillful application of mechanical and acoustic theory, this splendid building has only four columns on each side to support its four big arch-shaped steel trusses.

These trusses in turn hold the other eight main trusses, thus forming a huge octagon at the top of the central hall. Due to the large span of the trusses, a great hall is formed with neither echo nor pillars to obstruct the spectators' view.

With a history of more than1,400 years, and noted for its stately pagoda, luxuriant trees and many Buddhist relics, the Six Banyan Temple is one of the famous historical sites in Guangzhou.

Master Xiao Yu first built the Precious Solemnity Temple in 537 during the Liang Dynasty (502-557) and a pagoda here upon the edict of Emperor Liang wu, but they were destoryed by fire in the 10th century. When the temple was rebuilt in 989, it was renamed the Purificatory Wisdom Temple because the then monks here worshipped Hui Neng (638-713), the sixth patriarch of Zen ( a Buddhist sect, which believes that the ultimate truth is greater than words and is therefore not to be wholly found in the sacred writings, but must be sought throught the " inner light" and self-mastery. It originated in the 6th century in China.), for the Buddhist cause of purification. When the pagoda in the Purificatory Wisdom Temple was reconstructed in 1907, it was called the " Thousand Buddha Pagoda" as there were one thousand Buddha figurines kept in the pagoda. In 1100, Su Dongpo (1037-1101), the celebrated literati and calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty came to visit the temple and he was amazed with the six banyan trees planted at the courtyard of the temple. With a sudden inspiration, he wrote with pleasure two big Chinese characters" Six Banyans" for his inscription to the temple. In the early Ming Dynasty it was first named the Six Banyan temple. The magnificent pagoda stands in the middle of the courtyard. To its west is the rear door of the temple and on its left side is a veranda with a storage of the over ten stone tables.

Located right near the Chenjiaci Subway Station, in the western part of the city, and with a floor space of 13,200 square metres in 19 buildings, the Chen Clan Academy is one of the famous historical sites typical of South China architecture. Built in 1636 in the late period of the Ming Dynasty with funds raised by the Chen families from 72 countries of Guangdong province.

It was a site for worship as well as a place for Chen children to stay while taking imperial examinations in Guangzhou. In the academy, the spacious halls interspaced by countryards and connected by verandas are decorated with a good collection of beautiful and exquisite Guangdong folks arts and crafts. Stone carvings, brick-carvings, lime sculptures, wood-carvings and objects of iron casting can be found everywhere.

Decorations of artistic wood-carvings are especially superb and the twelve big screens in its" Sage-Gathering Hall" appear magnificent and imposing, and can be rated as rare pieces of artistic wood-carvings. Beams and niches in the academy are all decorated with delicate wood-carvings involving various interesting subjects. Wood-carvings of poems and pictures are mainly used to adorn the front-door walls, which seem to from a beautiful art gallery. Vivid in shape and life-like in appearance, the Shiwan ceramic figurines on the eaves all made on themes taken from Chinese historical stories. This noted Ming-dynasty structure, once seriously damaged, has been renovated and restored to its original grandeur. It is the most complete and magnificent artistic structure in Guangdong Province still in existence.