On February 2, the 2024 Ledong County Ring Island Tourist Highway "Dragon Ledong Treading Wave Ride" to welcome the Year of the Dragon was launched in the water square of Yinggehai Town, Ledong County. Photo courtesy of Ye Ying.
**Hainan News, February 2 (Ye Ying) The 2024 Ledong County Ring Island Tourist Highway "Dragon Ledong Treading Wave Ride" to welcome the Year of the Dragon was launched on the 2nd in the Water Square of Yinggehai Town, Ledong County. The three-day event attracted more than 1,000 tourists, cycling enthusiasts and local citizens from inside and outside Hainan Province to participate in the Spring Festival market, road riding around the island, fun activities, and check-in attractions to win lucky bags.
The Spring Festival Market exhibited Ledong's special agricultural products and intangible cultural heritage, such as traditional pickled dried fish, Ledong melon, dragon fruit, etc., and there were also links to write blessing characters and couplets on the spot to send New Year blessings to tourists. The cycling routes of the tourist road around the island include Yinggehai Town Water Square, Yinggehai Auditorium, Yingge Sea Salt Field, Sky Realm, Hainan Ring Island Tourist Highway Yingge Treading Wave Station, Yingge Fishing Dream Sea Paradise, etc., with a total of 2905km。Cycling enthusiasts enjoy the comfort of cycling on the tourist road around the island while watching the coastal idyllic scenery on both sides of the road.
In order to enrich the content of the event and promote the development of Ledong's tourism and cultural industry, the event set up interesting games such as tug-of-war to win gifts, parent-child family dragon ball relay race, parent-child blindfolded gong interaction, and blind box guessing competition. Visitors can also receive different levels of lucky bags according to the number of attractions checked-in.
The event was hosted by the Tourism and Culture, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau of Ledong Li Autonomous County, the people of Yinggehai Town, Ledong Li Autonomous County, and the development of sports tourism industry of Hainan Cavalry Battalion. (ENDS).