Luhuitou Park is situated on the hill near the seashore, 3 kilometers away from the Sanya city in the south, with its main peak of an altitude of 275.1 meters.
The name Luhuitou which means the deer turning its head back is derived from a moving love story. Long time ago, a tyrant emperor wanted a pair of dear hairy deerhorn, so he forced a young Li ethnic named Ahei to hunt for deer on the mountainous area. Once, when Ahei was hunting, he saw a beautiful spotted deer chased by a panther. He shot the panther to death with his arrow and run after the deer for nine days and nine nights. After passing ninety-nine hills, they arrived at the Coral Cliff of Sanya. The deer found no way to go except jumping into the sea while the hunter were benting his bow and got ready to shoot. Suddenly it turned its head back and changed into a beautiful girl walking toward him. Then, the hunter and the girl fell in love and married each other. In the end, the fairy girl collected her brothers to defeat the tyrant and settle down on the cliff. After several generations' hard work, they finally built the Coral Cliff into a beautiful farm. From then on, the romantic hill has been called Luhuitou.
At present, a charming park had been built on the top of the Luhuitou and a huge sculpture with a length of 9 meters, a width of 4.9 meters and a height of 12 meters was set there based on the moving legend. And Sanya is also called 'Deer City'.
The wave and point reflecting each other, on the mountain you can overlook the vast sea and the continuous mountains and the panorama of Sanya city which is grand indeed. Inside the Luhuitou Park, there are winding paths, Halley's comet observation station built on the mountain, white Tingchao pavilion, red Guanghai kiosk, the lover's island, and other scenic spots like the Monkey Mountain, Deer House, Hut of Li People, Turtle's Heaven and the Immortal Pond, all of them are too amazing for you to leave. What¡¯s more exciting is that you can taste the red coconut, the treasure of Hainan coconuts.
The Luhuitou Bay is on the foot of the Luhuitou Mountain. There, you can enjoy and view school of colorful parrotfish, ill-looking sea cucumber, fishworm, sea sycas, sea fan, coral tree, sea flower, soft coral, sea oyster, jelly fish, sea nettle and so on, which make you admire to the most. |
