Standing in a high place anywhere in Xiamen, you can easily find the two landmarks of Gulang Island: Sunlight Rock on the highest peak by Lujiang Harbor and Xiamen Museum (Eight Diagrams Building) overlooking Xiamen and Gulang Island. The original owner of the building-Lin Heshou, cousin of Lin Erjia, original owner of Shuzhuang Garden, set up the building in 1907.

Because of its special red dome and the Eight Diagrams, people call it Eight Diagrams Building. Within the museum, there are records of Xiamen's history and developments, the construction process of the SEZ, its sports accomplishments and development of its relationships with other cities and countries. There are also collection of porcelain, jade and weapoms through the ages.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 15 per person

Going along the Zhangzhou Road or Fuxin Road by the side of Bright Moon Garden, traveler will reach Yu Garden. This beautiful and peaceful garden was built in 1984 in memory of Professor Lin Qiaozhi, a medical scientist, expert of gynecology and obstetrics. The garden is well proportioned. There is a statue of Professor Lin, made of white marble in the garden. Beside the “Exhibition Room for Lin Qiaozhi's Life Story”, the two hoop pines, planted by the famous revolutionist Deng Yingchao, represent the noble character of Professor Lin.

Sea View Garden is an holiday villa with unique natural scenes in the southeast part of Gulang island. With an area of 100,000 square metres, it combines the delightful serenity of traditional Chinese gardens and the lively openess of the western-style villas. Under the management of Xiamen Gulang Island Sea View Garden Holiday Villa Co., Ltd, the garden not only boasts of landscape of sea and mountains, but also possesses a villa hotel to serve guests, conference needs and tour groups both home and abroad. Equipped with luxurious suites, general suites, standard rooms, a sea-food restaurant, a karaoke hall, a dancing hall, a market place, yachts and a special dock, the hotel can also provide other services like dining and lodging, entertainment and the one day sightseeing on the sea package tour.

Built in 1931, Shuzhuang Garden is located in the south of the island, facing the sea and against the Sunlight Rock, with tourist village in the east and the Gangzihou Beach Baths in the west. Originally it was the private villa of a local celebrity Lin Erjia and was transformed into a garden open to the public in 1955.

The whole garden can be divided into two parts——Canghai Garden for sea views and Bushan Garden for hill views. Each part has five sightseeing spots. Walking on the meandered “Forty-four Bridge”, tourists would feel as if they were walking on water. And “Twelve-Cave Paradise”, the tortuous, interlinked and spiraled rockery built on the hill, are especially interesting. The scenic spots in the garden are well proportioned, complementary and harmonious. The garden is on the sea and the sea is included in the garden. The garden combines the beauty of exquisite garden with vigorous sea view of splashing waves and hovering seagulls. Activity and inertia contrast and complement each other. Visitors are always attracted and enchanted by the beautiful scenes.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 30 per person

Sunlight Rock is also called Huang Rock (Dazzling Bright Rock), which is located on the top of Mountain Dragon Head slightly south of the island's center. It is 92.68 meters above sea level, being the peak of the whole islet. On the top, there is a sightseeing platform, where tourists can have a panoramic view of Xiamen and Gulang islet.

On the mountain, huge and precipitous rocks form many caves and gullies. Pavilions are hidden among green trees. If you go up the steps, you will come to the Lotus Flower Convent first, where a huge rock named “A Piece of Tile”, sitting on the top, forms a hall below. On the large rocks beside the convent are inscribed “Wonderland of Gulang”, “Heavenly Wind and sea Billows”, and “Number One along the Egret River”.

Close to the convent is the historical site of Zheng Chenggong's Mountain Dragon Head Fastness and the platform for directing the training of his seamen. In addition, plenty of caves, ancient walls and stone carvings can be seen indistinctly among the trees. They would stir up people's feelings and lead them to contemplate the present and recall the past. It takes only about 10 minutes' walk from the ferry to the rock.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 70 per person