Sanya, with its warm weather all year round, is truly a national treasure resort. It offers countless attractions and exciting activities by land, sea, and air. Want a hassle-free and effortless travel experience? Check out this ultimate nanny-level guide to Sanya’s top attractions!
This edition focuses on Dadonghai, covering must-visit spots, insider tips, and potential pitfalls to avoid—ensuring you enjoy Dadonghai to the fullest! Plus, we’ve included recommendations for popular attractions around Sanya!
Advantages: Dadonghai is very close to the city, it is very convenient for eating, drinking and having fun, and the quality of the sea water and beach is better than Sanya Bay.
Disadvantages: It is relatively noisy, and the quality of the sea water and beach is average.
Ticket Price: Free
Highlights: The most primitive beach landscape, there is also a small Santorini-style photography base in the Small Donghai Scenic Area, and you can take pictures for free.
Ticket Price: 35 RMB
Opening Hours: 8:00-22:00
Highlights: A good place to climb high and look far, very suitable for climbing to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset and night view! To enjoy the beautiful scenery of the entire Sanya Bay and Yalong Bay, you must find a good weather to go.
Recommendation: Go after 5 pm! The coffee shop on the top of Luhuitou Mountain is ins style, very suitable for taking pictures! Luhuitou has a one-meter-high free staircase, where you can take good photos.
Avoiding Pitfalls:
1. Pay attention to the weather. There is no sunset on rainy days, and the night view is also foggy.
2. Don't go to Luhuitou in the morning or at noon, it is especially sunny!
3. Don't arrange too much time to go to Luhuitou, there are fewer places to play
4. Don't touch the macaques on the road.
Ticket Price: 75 RMB
Opening Hours: 8:00-21:00
Highlights: A niche attraction with love themes, and it is also a scenic spot overlooking Sanya. The scenery is particularly outstanding and suitable for people you like. The cable car space is also very large!
Avoiding Pitfalls: For similar scenic spots, Luhuitou is more recommended. The ticket price of Sea and Mountain Alliance is expensive, and it is only a cable car ride, which is very cost-effective.
Highlights: The European style street is very romantic, Barcelona style, and you can take foreign blockbusters! There is also a food street, which is super convenient for shopping and eating.
Avoiding Pitfalls: Although the European-style street inside is very romantic, Jiqing Square does not allow tourists to enter at all now. The railing clearly states "Wedding photo base, no visitors"!
Highlights: It feels like walking into a foreign island. It is a photography base with a small Santorini style. You can take photos for free. There are many props. If you like taking photos, you can come.
Dadonghai Night Market, First Market, Dapineapple Square, Xinhonggang Market, Hailv Duty Free Shop
Ticket Price: 147 RMB
Highlight: The world's only island-type macaque nature reserve, with a wide variety of flora and fauna on the island, and you can see many wild monkeys here.
Avoiding Pitfalls: Monkeys will grab food and rummage through bags.
Ticket Price: 90 RMB
Highlights: The beach is flat, the sand is clean, and every place is very quiet. There are no bustling crowds, and you can enjoy this sea area alone.
Ticket price: 122
Highlights: The sea water here is as clear as the blue sky, the color deepens outwards in turn, the boundaries are clear, and there is also a dolphin bay where you can watch wild marine animals.
Ticket price: Free
Highlights: Close to Shimei Bay, surrounded by mountains and water, one of the top ten surfing spots in the world, with huge rocks in the sea and waves, which is quite spectacular.
Recommendation: For navigation, search "Sunac Riyue Bay". The coastal road along the artificial island’s Coconut Grove Avenue has become a trending scenic route—half lined with coconut trees, half overlooking the vast ocean. The bay offers high-quality point breaks and beach breaks, making it a paradise for surfers.
This is a purely natural wild scenic spot, the waterfall is very spectacular, and the water is very cool and can be drunk directly.
In addition to many scenic spots, Sanya also has many other experiences such as yachting and helicopter sightseeing, which I will not go into detail. Guests who need this can consult our customer service staff.
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