Fujian Xiapu Inspiring Photography Tour

Upon arrival in Fuzhou, your local guide will welcome you at the airport/railway station and escort you to hotel for check-in. The rest of the day is up to you for a good rest.

Travel Tips:
Photographic Gears:
1. As the shooting matters will be in long distance, long-focus lens (70-300mm long-focus lens is a good option, also need wide-angle lens) can assist to showing of the aesthetic of andscapes.
2. Wide-angle lens and middle or long focus lens are both necessary. Maybe you will need lens of 300mm focal length.
3. A firm tripod is a must as the heavy wind at the seaside.

Best time to go: August - Octomber

Highlights: sunset over the East Wall,  Xiapu County

After breakfast, have a 3-hour drive to Xiapu and head to hotel for check-in. In the afternoon, let’s to take a wonderful shot at the East Wall (a small fishing village looks to the sea). It features immense and spectacular landscapes and is among the great places to capture the sunset. Especially in autumn, with shuttle fishing boats, and golden sunset, it is the ideal position to take photos of the sea. Overnight in Xiapu.

Shooting Tips:
The East Wall (a small fishing village looks to the sea) is among the ideal places to grab images of the sunset over the sea.

Highlights:  tideland sunrise & sunrise , aged banyan, folk customs, beach scenery in Xiaohao village, maple forest

Get up early for the charming sunrise of the tideland, sense the beauty of the wonderful tidal flat. Then proceed to Yangjiaxi for the aged banyan and unique folk culture and customs. After lunch, return to the hotel for a short break. Later, head to Xiaohao village to shoot the tideland sunset. You’ll see fisherman putting out and hauling nets for fish. After the shooting, back to hotel.

Shooting Tips:
1. Xiaohao village is among the classic positions to photograph fascinating views of Xiapu. As you shoot along the light, colors of the huge golden tidal flat vary with the waves. And shoot against the light, you’ll find the streams winding through the tideland, just like the artery of the beach, sparking its silvery light.
2. Walk up to the mountain along the roadside trail of County Road 981, and here is a rich stretch of immense beach and Xiaohao village beneath you.

Highlights: sea sunrise, charming costal scenery, beach sunset

Get up early to head for Beiqi to shoot sea sunrise and then proceed to Shajiang Town where you’ll get close-up images of coastal scenery, where people let kelps become dry out under the sun. After lunch, have a short break then move to appreciate the waterfront landscapes and sunset at Shajiang S-shaped gulf. Numerous bamboo sticks inserted in the beach and well-proportioned arranged on both sides of this S-shaped harbor waterway, perfectly display the glamour of the beach. After the shooting, back to hotel.

Shooting Tips:
1. Beiqi is the great place to shoot the wonderful tideland views of Xiapu. It enjoys tiger-stripes beach and is crammed with oceans of sticks, local people and visitors, as well as fish boats. At high tide, the busy boats shuttling between the buoys and pole shadow perfectly blend with the sea, mountains and islands. When the tide goes out, fishermen’s moving on the beach enable the beach seem to be more rhythmic and dynamic. At this moment, no matter which angle to shoot, you’ll get a charming image.
2. The towering cliff is the ideal location to shoot, with a immense stretch and the tide land and laver racks at the foot of the cliff.
3.Bamboo sticks lined on the beach shape the spacious “S” gulf, where fish boats wind the way. In order to capture the perfect view, you need to photograph standing on the top of the teaching building of Xiapu No. 2 middle school.

Highlights: sunrise, local people life, landscapes of waterfront,“steamed bun”mountain, spectacle of kelps drying out

Get up early to Weijiang for the shooting of sunrise, beautiful scenery of “steamed bun”mountain. Then move to Bailu local village for the septacle of kelps drying out. After lunch, continue to Xishan to photograph the unique and charming landscapes of waterfront. Later of the day, back to hotel.

Shooting Tips:
Weijiang is a nice waterfront village, where you can photograph the sunrise,considerable oysters and kelps hanged on the fishing net to dry out, remote natural landscape of “steamed bun” mountain, and engaged local people.

Highlights: sunrise, local life, enchanting natural views of tide land

Get up early to Beidou for the attractive sunrise, plus the local people with a pleased smile on the face, as well as the girls weaving and mending fishing nets. Afterwards, proceed to Hanjiang to shoot the kelps hanged on the nets or sticks to drying out. After breakfast, go to Qidu to the shots of unique beach scenery. Then, return to Fuzhou.

Shooting Tips:
1. As you capture the beach scenery, it’s better to take something as a frame of reference, such as fisherman or heron, or the image you shoot will be without vibrant even with good light and color.
2. A firm tripod is necessary as the heavy wind at the seaside and the frequent using of long-focus lens.
3. The road behind the small hill of Hanjiang is the best position to photograph the kelps, bamboo sticks and bustling working people.
4. Qidu beach without bamboo sticks, boasts the singular rigid appearance. Fishermen plough on the beach of dams, which form the unique wonders with dams appearing to be rough and strong lines.

After breakfast, see-off at the railway station or airport, and tour service ends.