Wuzhizhou Island Resort
3 min readWuzhizhou Island is located in the northern part of Haitang Bay.The total area is 1.48 square kilometers，with irregular shape of a butterfly.It is 1，500 meters wide from east to west and about 1，100 meters long from north to south.The island is 2.7 kilometers from Linwang Village.On the north of the island is the only island-typed nature reservation of monkeys，Nanwan Macaque Peninsula.On the south is the most beautiful bay in China，Yalong Bay.Wuzhizhou Island is 30 kilometers away from city center，and 38 kilometers away from Sanya Phoenix International Airport.And it is close to the east highway between Haikou and Sanya, so it has a favorable geographical location and convenient transportation.
Wuzhizhou Island is also called Guqizhou Island and Niuqizhou Island by the local people. The two names are both from a legend. It is said that long long ago, there was a river in Sanya called Tengqiao River. The people who lived at the upper side of the river damaged the vegetation. And when the flooding happened, the water poured down from the mountain and rushed together with the soil into the sea and made the clear sea water dirty. The Dragon King was very angry about it, so he reported to the Jade Emperor. The Emperor cut the edges of Ninnan Mountain, which was 7 kilometers away, with a magic sword, and ordered two bulls to push the edges to block the river mouth. But, out of expectation, the secret action was discovered by a local guy, and he shouted,”Look, how strange it is, two bulls are pulling mountain.”Then, the two bulls could not move any further. The mountain turned into island and the two bulls turned into two big stones, and the local people call the two stones Sister Stones. After the establishment of Sanya City, Hainan Province, the government verifies the names as the local fishermen provide a way of saying that the island is very much like a product called “centipede branch”, which is a kind of marine life. Then the island has its name to be Wuzhizhou Island, which is still in use today.
The earliest record of Wuzhizhou Island was in the Qing Dynasty.A Taoist called Wu Huacun was in search of a place for self-cultivation. When he saw the beautiful scenery and tribal of Wuzhizhou Island, he wanted to settle down here. The matter was then known by the local official, so he had a visit. Seeing the senic scenery of the island, he thought that this treasure should not be owned by individuals. Instead, it should be the benefit of its people. So he stopped Wu’s behavior, and built a construction. The God in the temple was Cangjie, the inventor of Chinese characters at first. After Qing government’s failure, people changed the god, and now the god in the temple is Mazu, the sea goddness. This is rare in the history of China, and it also leaves a great legacy in Hainan.
Wuzhizhou Island is among the few islands that have fresh water and lushvegetation in Hainan. There are about 2,700 kinds of plants in the island including the world’s oldest plant Dracaena. The east peak and south peak isconnected with each other, with the highest point of 79.9 meters. The westernand northern part is flat with beautiful beach and soft sand. The reef under water is well-reserved. All kinds of tropical fishes live here. It is an ideal place for diving. The natural scenery on the island are very special, and all kinds of holiday villas, huts and bars, tennis courts, seafood restaurants and other facilities have been undertaken, including diving, semi-submersible sightseeing, fishing, water skiing, sailing, windsurfing, motorboat, banana boat, canoeing, drag parachute, bouncing boat, beach motorcycles, water parachute, beach volleyball beach soccer, etc. About more than 30 items of entertainments, which can bring the original, quiet, romantic and dynamic style of leisure experience for you.
Wuzhizhou Island is a perfect place to free your mind and body, and if you are a diving lover, you can never hesitate to go there to enjoy the first-classdiving environment.
