7 Days in Zhuhai

Walk or cycle past the granite Fisher Girl, raised in 1982 and standing about 8.7 metres over Xianglu Bay; finish on Yeli Island as the 2017 shell-shaped opera house lights up.

1. zhuhai lovers road
2. zhuhai fisher girl
3. zhuhai opera house

A full day on Hengqin Island at the marine park that opened in March 2014 — its whale-shark tank carried Guinness aquarium records at the debut; coasters early, parade last.

1. zhuhai chimelong ocean kingdom

Morning at Haitian Park for the 55-kilometre Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, opened in October 2018 and closed to pedestrians; then the waterfront museum and Beishan's ancestral halls turned cafe lanes.

1. zhuhai haitian park
2. zhuhai city museum
3. zhuhai beishan village

Across the bridge to Qi'ao — boardwalks through the mangrove reserve in the morning, then the village's White Stone Street, tied locally to an 1833 episode of village resistance.

1. zhuhai qiao island
2. zhuhai mangrove boardwalk

North to Tangjiawan — the planned 19th-century lanes of Huitong village and Gongle Garden, the estate of Tang Shaoyi, first premier of the Republic in 1912.

1. zhuhai huitong village
2. zhuhai gongle garden

The ferry from Xiangzhou pier takes about an hour to Dong'ao; swim at Nansha Bay, then walk up to the Qing-era battery of 1717 above the cove. Overnight on the island.

1. zhuhai dongao island

An early beach walk and the morning ferry back, then the stone archways of Meixi — Qing honour gates for the merchant Chen Fang — before the evening train or flight.

1. zhuhai dongao island
2. zhuhai meixi archways