http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Hainan , Sanya en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:06:37 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:06:37 BST 4 October 08 Okay so we travelled 1127 km on a train from Guangzhou across the sea to Hainan to fly a 5mtr power kite on the beach at Sanya. As our train drew further south we left behind the 36 degree heat of Guangzhou and woke to dull weather for the first time since Lijiang.The train bumped on until it came to a standstill at the end of China and we wondered how we were going to get over th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-330662.html Oops Try that link again sorry.Having a week off in celebration of China's National Week gave us an opportunity to travel to the tropical resort island called Hainan to the city of Sanya. Sanya is the southernmost city in Hainan 2802321335 province China. Luckily our 4 day excursion ended up sandwiching right between 2 typhoons so the weather was beautiful. The typhoon activity here http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-328435.html In four short days I received the worst sunburn of my life witnessed a baby being flung about the ocean like a pool toy observed the differences between island and mainland life basked in the clean air of the least polluted city in China and learned a thing or two about myself. Just call it a typical vacation in China. May 1 International Labor Day is a national holiday in China. Last year http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-272391.html Our usual ritual of breaking our 'no drinking before travelling' ritual had set up a day from hell. Now one traveller felt a little peachy one a little more than peachy and one was there in body but definately not there in mind I won't tell who but lets just say Ollie could definitively map out every toilet from Sanya to HaiKou And believe me there was a lot of stops The boat was leaving http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-272126.html For the next three days we had a pretty set routine. This involvedMORNING There was no morning in Sanya. For us morning in Sanya was actually the night before still so doesn't actually count. The day pretty much doesn't start until about 1pm on a good day.AFTERNOON The afternoon would start with a quiet bowl of instant noodles in the room followed by a trip to the beach for the adventurous. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-272125.html Amazingly we were all up and out by 10am Amazing because we had had a few beers the night before. However we needed to get a bus to Sanya and that was our motivation. The bus was very comfortable and for the few who weren't asleep the whole way got to see some amazing scenery.We had a huge meal right where the bus had dropped us and we hopped into a taxi hopeing to find a hotel from the bible http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-272056.html So .. you know how I was complaining about the cold Yeah now we're in 32 degree heat I guess that's what I get for complaining so much.The thousands of kilometres were covered in two long distance trains. One trip 25 hours worth got us from Xian in cenral China down to Guangzhou very close to Hong Kong. We were planning to spend about 46 days visiting Guangzhou epic shopping and Hong http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-269830.html The short trip to Hainan was fantastic. The first two nights we stayed at the Sheraton Hotel and the third night at the Hilton Hotel. Both hotels are simply great and we just relaxed slept a lot and of course we didn't miss the big buffet. Unfortunately we got sunburned although we took heaps of suncream and we didn't move away from the sunshade. Silvan enjoyed swimming at all he knows now how http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-265228.html This weekend the International Finance College took us to visit a staggering Chinese paradise with a 25degree average temperature yeah the largest Ocean island in China. Although the car drive and flight were both pleasant I couldn't help having ants in my pants for the whole trip I reckon it was down to my leg problems. Yet as soon as we arrive in Sanya I was a new man ready to relax a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-264163.html I've been back in Shanghai for two weeks. The sun is nearly back but it's still way to cold for me...so last weekend was three days in Saigon and this weekend in Shanghai. You won't see pics from Saigonas I'm there every month and don't consider it as travelling.So Sanya why bother going there...well got freebie tickets for two so better used them. It's a three hours flight from Shanghai http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-256882.html During the Spring Festival many Chinese were scared of travelling because of the disastrous snowstorms in the south. My family hesitated and just decided to go an easy way to settle down the endless discussion. Although many places were not as warm as we expected we had a great time together. I hope to start my travel blog with Hainan IslandAsian Hawaii to share with you all the joys and ins http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-253320.html SORRY FOR SUCH A LONG TIME BETWEEN BLOGS. We travelled without the laptop for a while and pretty much just slept for the last week in Oz. Plenty more soon though I swear. We still have to write about Shanghai and Thailand. Hope you enjoy this one loads of sun and pics.. this one is for Paul and Elaine our partners in crime SANYA HAINAN ISLAND SOUTHERN CHINAOn the 9th January we flew to Sa http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-249219.html Boarding the battered old ferry at Beihai we were torn between relief and trepidation happy to be leaving that frozen barren town but distinctly hesitant about the impending 12hour seabucket journey.We had managed at the last minute to upgrade ourselves from the 30toaroom cattleclass about which we had heard so many colourful zoological analogies and which we now saw offered little more http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-239814.html The family is together for the first time since last summer. It all feels so right. Longing for the relaxing days of Pensacola in the spring we decide a beach retreat might be just the thing to satisfy our desire to rekindle some of our memories of family fun on the beach while exploring a new area. Sanya bay on the southern tip of Hainan island is the southern most point of China with coastli http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-234558.html Alot has happend since I last wrote here. So try to keep it extremely short. Am really hungry at the moment as well so another reason to keep it short.Last days in Beijing was most about shopping. Nothing fro me almost though. Last night was a weird night. Had decided to stay up til 4 am to watch the englandcroatia game. Had been out shopping non stop for 7 hours during the day and was very tired http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-225043.html I got off the bus at Sanya and was immediately lost walking around looking for a street sign a local asked me what I was looking for and pointed me in the right direction. Later on I repeatedly asked random strangers for directions and they all were willing to help. Finally one guy gave me a ride on his motorbike to the hostel I was looking for. The people here are so friendly. They call Sanya http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-204903.html Hi everyone itrsquos been a while.We are currently in the Vietnamese beach resort of Nha Trang and we thought now would be a good time to update you on our travels As some of you may have seen the blog website crashed a few days ago which meant that all of our blogs were lost However using some computer wizardry we were able to restore most of the entries. I know a lot of you like to rer http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-189731.html Efter at have tilbragt tre dage p Hainan eller nrmere bestemt vores resort Sanya Horizon Resort Spa m vi indrmme at dette til fulde lever op til sine 5 stjerner og at stranden og havet ogs er Hawaii vrdigt. Hvis I klikker p kortet med teksten View route map kan I se beliggenheden af hotellet. Fra kortet kan I zoome ud og se det fra rummet ogs. Tiden er blevet brugt til at dase ved http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-181895.html Ahh I love the beach I woke up a bit late this morning so Randy and I decided to go into town. Wersquod missed the bus so we decided to take a taxi. I asked the driver to take us shopping or to town something. He didnrsquot really understand what I was saying and showed me a map and pointed at somethinghellipRandy and I gave up trying to tell him where we wanted to go so we just agreed http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-173414.html The Great Sanya Exploratory MissionMy last report from Hainan wasn't very positive I admit that. In fact it was really harsh on the poor little island considering that I'd only been there a few days. Being the conscientious guy that I am I decided to do some more detailed research into the workings of the island an aim that I almost totally failed to succeed in. I've spent somewhere in the pro http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-172754.html Sanya Chinas sdlichste Stadt Asia China Hainan Sanya By Christopher BittelJune 14th 2007 Am Sonntag Abend mussten dann meine anderen 3 Kollegen wieder nach Nanjing zurck. Ich hab mich dann auf den Weg nach Sanya gemacht wo Leo und Max sich mittlerweile schon einen fieen Sonnenbrand zugezogen hatten. Dafr bin ich erst nach Haikou die Hauptstadt der Insel Hainan geflogen. Dort hab ich http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-169105.html Voyage vacances de PquesSpectacle de singes Monkey Island Et voil la fin de notre voyage Sunny Sanya comme ils disent aussi superbes plages 300 jours de soleil par an une eau 2528 degres super claire et quelques collines et montagnes histoire d'avoir une belle vue la belle vue quoi C'est l o nous avons pass nos 4 derniers jours de vacances entre la plage notre auberge Blu http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-157851.html Would saying it was too good to be true be too cliche' to say right now Might you see where this is going. The price was too right for our upcoming weekend with a Chinese tour group to China's second largest island behind Taiwan to be spelled out in long days along clear beaches sipping coconuts and perfecting our already pretty perfect tans. We embarked on our journey with high hopes http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-143887.html SANYA ISLAND CHINASanya Island is located in the South China Sea. We stayed at a lovely resort on a beautiful beach with very few tourists.Our pictures are from another beach we visited for a couple of hourshellipmany different unusual sightshellip and very hot yet many people were fully dressedhellipThe most fascinatinghellipPeople yes young children too lined up for a short boat tr http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-138013.html WOOHOO So I packed up and made my way to Hainan with a pack of students on a trip that was paid for by my university in Beijing. We went to Hainan for 5 days and four nights. The trip sounded awesome. A paid for vacation away from Beijing's bitterly cold windy dirty winter. We got onto a plane and made the trek to China's island paradise. When we got off the plane and wandered through the airp http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-135904.html Hainan February 49 same latitude as Hawaii was the exile for disgraced officials now is a balmy vacation paradise. In 1988 Hainan became a SEZ Special Economic Zone and now 80 of the economy comes from tourism. The southern coast of the island around Sanya has the best beaches in China. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-133860.html The last couple of days on Hainan were again a bit more lazy the weather also didn't help since it even started raining Thank God we had enough books so we stayed on our balcony the temperatures were still in the high twenties or on bed reading. Yue also bought a huge amount of tea and I bought a memory card for the video camera charming the price down to RMB120 from RMB130 still half a tax http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hainan/Sanya/blog-121589.html