Silk Route Day 14 & 15: Exploring Guangzhou & Flight Back KL

Here is the walking tour of 1 day Guangzhou: -

We start off Guangzhou at 9am to Museum Nanyue King (西汉南越王博物馆) where the metro train stop at Yuexiu Park (blue line) and the Admission is ¥12. It is a nice museum with the history of King Nanyue during the Han Dynasty and also site of the excavation which converted to a museum. Worth a visit during stop at Guangzhou.

We continue the tour to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (中山纪念堂) by stopping at Memorial (blue line). Admission is free for the park and ¥10 to go inside the hall.

We reached at 10am to walk around the park with some Memorial Hall scenery.












We continue the tour to Temple of Six Banyan Trees (六榕寺) dropping at Gongyunqian (blue line) and the admission is ¥5. This temple is just a normal small temple but the main attraction is that the temple is active with local praying. Have a light chiong fun around the temple at 11:30am. There is another attraction at Beijing road where there are many little historical temple and shopping with food around the road.

We continue at 1pm to the Ancestral Temple of the Chen Family (陈家祠) with stop at Chen Clan Acedemy Station (Yellow Line) and the admission is ¥10. Chen Clan place is a historical home with their tradisional home build during Qing dynasty.

Then continue to Culture Park Station(Purple line) reaching at 2:00pm following walk to Shamien Island (沙面岛),

Then another short walk to Shangxiajiu Road to spend some shopping until late noon at around 3pm. Continue the walk to Yide road to have a glimpse at the Sacred Heart Cathedral (石室圣心大教堂) until 4:30pm

Continue to the following metro station Canton Tower (orange line) for the sunset of canton tower at 5:30pm before wrapping up a dim sum dinner at the Canton Tower. Visiting Canton tower in the evening can witness the tower from day to night where is it colourful with lights during night.

Then it is the end of the 2 week Silk Route trip. The flight back KL the next day from Guangzhou Airport.