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By Olliep
April 24th 2008

Arriving in HaiKou (Hainan)

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The ferry
Our bedroom for the night!

After very little sleep on the ferry, we arrived tired and grumpy at HaiKou. The usual mob of taxi drivers hounded us, but we are growing accustom to that now, so we calmly choose one and set off for a hotel listed in our bible. The hotel was amazing quality for a 'budget' choice, Mark had already stolen all the freebies before we even had chance to check-in! After a hard nights travel, a nap was well deserved. Our Primary mission: Find a way to get to VietNam from Hainan island. Our hotel was very central to we walked through the [View Full Entry]

By Hans
April 1st 2008

#97 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China ("Tropical" Island of Hainan, China's smallest Province)

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This prized Jackfruit is growing on the Island of Hainan, of the coast of South China.
One of the unique fruits of Hainan Island, and a major cash crop for the villages surrounding the capital Haikou, is Jackfruit. The fruit is large, and though it has a pungent odor, it has a very swe... [more]

In ancient China, the southern Island of Hainan was known as the "end of the world". It is the place, to which many brave dissenters and critics of China's Imperial Dynasties and its emperors were exiled. One of the most outspoken critics of the Song Dynasty was China's ancient, grand poet Su Dongpo, who was exiled to Hainan between 1097 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by the Song Dynasty emperor. He described his journey to the "tropical" Island of Hainan, located on the southern tip of China, with these words: "... Having visited the wonder, I never feel regretful, though gone through [View Full Entry]

Even on the Island of Hainan, Children will be children.

Walking the paths an ancient village, only a few cigarettes convinced this gentleman to pose with me.

Vacation time in Hainan was also difficult for the island

By Hu Di
March 20th 2008

Haidian Peninsula Free Market

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Shop of bags
Obviously, this shop can not hold all it has. The shop is expanded to the roads. Come to China, if you can not find the bag you want in your country.

I never thought my first entry would get myself so addicted to this travel blog (never thought I would like the idea of writing and putting pictures together). But I can not afford non-stop travelling for 3 months or 6 months, like many of other bloggers do. I am good at finding excuses for myself. So I decided to say " to travel is more to perceive than to make destinations. Travel gives us time to think, refresh, rethink...give us insights to places which we have never been and to people who we have never known...finally we retrospect, make connections between [View Full Entry]

By COOKIE W
March 5th 2008

HAIKOU CITY, HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA

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EVERGREEN PARK WITH OUR HOTEL ON LEFT
GOLDEN SEA VIEW HOTEL ON LEFT

In 110 BC, Emperor Hanwu was the first to assign an administrative office on Hainan Island. It borders Vietnam to the west. The climate is very tropical & due to the abundance of sunlight, many crops are grown such as rice, wheat sweet potato, taro, sorghum, millet & beans. Sugarcane, hemp, peanuts, sesame & tea are also grown. Among the fruits are, pineapple, litchi, banana, plantain, citrus, mango watermellon & jackfruit! It is also rich in medicinal herbs, there are over 4,000 plants that can be used for medicinal purposes. There is no industry on the island, therefore, no pollution. We [View Full Entry]

By COOKIE W
March 5th 2008

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS - HAIKOU CITY, HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA

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HERE I AM WITH STUDENTS
THEY ARE ALL CHINESE ENGLISH TEACHERS

'TRAVEL THAT FEEDS THE SOUL'........this is what GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS is all about. A week ago, we completed our third year teaching with GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS, we were the 2nd team to teach in Haikou city, Hainan Island. We taught each morning to Chinese English teachers at Haikou Educational Research and Training Academy. Every other year English teachers in China must get re-certified. This is our 2nd time having HuDi as our team leader; last year her partner, Baoli, led our small team in Xi'an and HuDi participated. We feel as tho these leaders are a part of our family now. We stayed [View Full Entry]

By COOKIE W
March 3rd 2008

LUCHEN RURAL VILLAGE

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10 RULES FROM MING DYNASTY

LUCHEN is an ancient, rural village 2 hours from the city of Haikou, Hainan Island. There is a stone marker, at the entrance to the village, from the 'Ming Dynasty', 1500 A.D. It lists 10 rules for the village --'don't steal;don't cut down trees', etc. The foilage is tropical & the soil very fertile. Fruit trees are very abundant --jackfruit, pineapples, leechie nuts, bananas, to name just a few. The houses were all built from volcano bricks......bricks cut into squares from volcano lava, no mortar is used. The bricks are porous & would leak in the rain.....however, it is a very [View Full Entry]

By COOKIE W
February 13th 2008

WILLIAMS' JOURNEY THRU CHINA '08

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CHINA 07 633

FEBRUARY 20th: WE'RE ON OUR WAY! 'CHINA SOUTHERN' AIRLINES, BUSINESS CLASS, 15 HRS TO GUANGZHOU, CHINA, WHICH IS WEST OF HONG KONG. WE SPEND ONE NIGHT IN GUANGZHOU (CANTON). NEXT DAY, WE FLY TO HAIKOU, ON THE ISLAND OF HAINAN, WHICH IS SOUTH OF HONG KONG & MACAU, EAST OF HANOI. IT IS THE 'HAWAII' OF ASIA WHERE ALL THE ASIANS GO TO VACATION. THE CLIMATE IS TROPICAL, ISLAND BEAUTIFUL & THE ATMOSPHERE MIXED ASIAN. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS ONCE AGAIN, OUR THIRD PROGRAM WITH THIS WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION........... FROM HAINAN, WE WILL FLY TO [View Full Entry]

By A Travel Story
December 10th 2007

Hi Who? Haikou!

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We had nine days to spend in the Hong Kong area, so we went looking for day trips to China and found this 2 day cruize to Haikou. Haikou is the largest city on an Island in the Hainan region of China. It was a cheezy cruize but we did get to see this little city in China. There were some very modern buildings in Haikou but we were amazed at how many were vacant. From the ground they appeared to have condos that would sell for a million in the USA, but you could clearly see that although they were [View Full Entry]

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