5 Days in Lianyungang

To the 624.4-metre Yufeng, the highest point in Jiangsu, the water-curtain cave of the 16th-century novel and the nine-storey pagoda standing since 1023.

1. lianyungang huaguoshan

The 6.7-kilometre causeway leads to Jiangsu's largest island and its two beaches — the wide Dashawan and the cove-sheltered Sumawan.

1. lianyungang lian island

Stone lanes beside the harbour begun in 1933, where the eastbound trains of the 1935 railway met the sea and land-bridge containers have rolled west since 1992; then the ridge paths of Haishang Yuntai above the coast.

1. lianyungang lianyun old street
2. lianyungang haishang yuntai

Eastern Han Buddhist rock images on Kongwang Hill, the Neolithic carvings of Jiangjunya on the neighbouring hill, then the drum tower and old wells of Haizhou's streets.

1. lianyungang kongwang hill
2. lianyungang haizhou ancient city

South to Banpu, where Li Ruzhen, the 19th-century author of Flowers in the Mirror, lived and a Qing-era vinegar house still trades, then the granite slopes of Dayi Mountain with its Neolithic stone-coffin burials before the train.

1. lianyungang banpu ancient town
2. lianyungang dayi mountain