Maoming Travel｜Touching Millennium-Old Trees, Smelling Billion-Year Agarwood, Turning the Highway Service Station into a Lingnan Cultural Poem

Maoming, this "Mountain and Sea City" hidden in western Guangdong, is redefining traditional travel perceptions with an innovative approach of "agriculture, culture, and tourism integration." Today, I want to share my new experiences traveling in Maoming!

🚉 Baomao Expressway Baiqiao Service Area
The lychee-themed highway service area has been magnificently transformed into a cultural and tourism complex! Centered on the theme "Lychee Hometown Water Charm," a 660-meter skybridge connects the "Lychee Fruit" West Zone and the "Lychee Leaf" East Zone. It pioneers a "1-hour flash tour" route linking orchard picking and cultural corridors, with an RV campsite and a 20-kilometer greenway leading directly to the Lychee Expo Park, truly a "Lychee Paradise on the Highway."
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🌳 Gaozhou Genzi Gong Garden
Travel back to the Tang Dynasty with the "Living Fossil of Lychee"! This 80-acre ancient lychee orchard houses nearly a hundred century-old trees, including 9 over a thousand years old and dozens over 500 years. The "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" ancient tree bears red lychees like a peacock spreading its feathers, and the "Strongman Looking Back" is said to be the source of lychees offered to Yang Guifei. Here, you can touch Tang Dynasty relics and climb the Red Lychee Pavilion to overlook thousands of acres of lychee sea.
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👑 Chuliang Village
The global origin of Chuliang longan! The 300-year-old mother tree still produces 300 jin of fresh fruit annually, with thick flesh and button-sized small seeds, crisp, residue-free, sweet, and juicy. Visit the 800 workshops in Fenjie Town, known as "China's No.1 Longan Processing Town," and taste fresh longan meat, longan cookies, and other deep-processed products.
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🍊 Huajuhong Expo Museum
A millennium-old medicinal fragrance legend of Huajuhong! This AAA-level scenic spot houses 38 volumes of Ming and Qing medical classics and Qing Dynasty tribute wooden boxes, with holographic dynamic displays of Huajuhong’s growth cycle. The cough-relieving "Huajuhong Paste" and Huajuhong tea are highly praised. The integration of intangible cultural heritage techniques with technology makes it a "Traditional Chinese Medicine Cultural Immersive Classroom."
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📖 Xige Station Beach
A free coastal arts sanctuary! Facing the giant ship channel of Shuidong Port, enjoy listening to the waves from the railing, study in the book bar, and wait for a golden sunset. The station offers coffee, light meals, and a craft beer bar, hosting concerts and intangible cultural heritage workshops on weekends. The sand is fine and the area is less commercialized; it’s recommended to visit before 10 a.m. to avoid crowds and unlock poetic moments of "coffee in the left hand, waves in the right."
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🪔 Shadong Village Agarwood Center
An exploration trip to the "No.1 Agarwood Village in China"! The millennium-old fragrant street gathers nearly a thousand shops with an output value exceeding 1 billion yuan. Experience traditional "incense stick making," DIY agarwood sachets, and watch the entire production chain of agarwood harvesting → carving → essential oil extraction in transparent workshops.
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The Maoming journey is like a modern cultural poem "from the treetops to the tongue, from ancient roads to the blue sea"—here, the highway will ultimately lead to poetry.
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