Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南), China (中国) : 蝴蝶谷 (Butterfly Park) & 亚龙弯 (YaLongWan) 旅游度假村

Hainan, China - Part 5 - 蝴蝶谷 (Butterfly Park) and 亚龙弯 (YaLongWan) 旅游度假村, 三亚 (Sanya)

After visiting 鹿回头景区 (LuHuiTou Scenic Area), we headed to see the beautiful butterfly art.

- 蝴蝶谷 (Butterfly Park) -

Couldn't agree more that China people are clever with all kinds of things they could created and searching ways to earn for a living, but once again, their washroom "Sucks, mad sucks." (Yucks!)

Here are some of the beautiful arts of butterflies!

- Types of beautiful butterflies -

- Peacock Photography -

There's one monster turtle at the aquarium on the left which I forgot to snap it. (-_-").

The peacock just beautiful and that's one kind of tourist photography style she had! :P

And next, we went to 亚龙弯 (YaLongWan) 旅游度假村!

- White Sandy Beach -

It do reminds me about the our beautiful beaches in Malaysia, we have so many nature resources and beautiful scenery. In fact, tour to the beaches in Hainan, doesn't impress me. It was so crowded over there.

- Selca with the landmark of 亚龙弯 (YaLongWan) -

First World Bay.

天下第一弯。

- White Sand -

- Rough Sand -

- Just like Our Tamu -

Souvenirs anyone?

That's the end of our Sanya trip and next, we went to a colder place..

兴隆 XIN LONG

after three.... hours....long distance drive.....

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Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南), China (中国) : DON'T "LOOK" BACK! 鹿回头景区 (LuHuiTou Scenic Area)

Hainan, China - Part 4 - 鹿回头景区 (LuHuiTou Scenic Area), 三亚 (Sanya)

It was blessed that we could admire Sanya from the highest spot at LuHuiTou.

Hop off from our tour bus and with buggy, we reached the following spots to enjoy the beautiful city.

- Part of Sanya -

The fishermen lifestyle and such a developed China in the eye of us. However, I still anti the uncivilised China citizen. Yucks! Reminded myself about how awful their hygiene were. Eww... 

- Tourism Map of LuHuiTou Scenic Area -

And so, we walk through 观海台 Sea-view Pavilion, 千年古榕 Ancient Banyan Tree, 观景平台 City View Pavilion, 鹿雕 Deer Sculpture, 鸽园 Pigeon Garden, 鹿苑 Deer Garden, 月下姻缘 Matchmaker, 爱字摩崖 "Love" Inscription, 夫妻树 Couple Tree, 仙鹿树 Fairy Deer Tree and 山碑 Love Monument. Those are the highlighted spot at Luhuitou, in fact we only able to visit few of it due to time constraint.

- Namely Mini Dubai -

Referred to the five building seen.

- Part of Sanya -

- 千年古榕 Ancient Banyan Tree -

- Another Part of Sanya -

- Directory -

- 月下姻缘 Matchmaker -

- Love Story at LuHuiTou -

- Aftermath of the Wave and Sea -

Global warming just made the place looks the way they are today. Unbelievable.

After visiting and had a little stretch on our feet, off we go and continued with our journey.

- Coconut @ RMB10 -

Macam la... Sabah can't find these. -_-"

Hmm.... Coconuts found at tropical cities like ours (Malaysia) are way cheaper than this. I couldn't recall whether I tried it or not, but even I did, I won't be the one who buy them. haha. :D

Entrance Fee to LuHuiTou :
RMB80

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Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南), China (中国) : SHOPS at Their Local Production - The Bamboo, The Tea, The Foot Massage & The Knife

Hainan Part 3 -  竹一百 (Bamboo 100), 包足底按摩 (Foot Massage), 茶艺馆 (Art of Tea) and Knife, 三亚 (Sanya)

They always say tours at China normally bring visitors to purchase their local goods, well, it is TRUE FACTS!

Some of it are interesting and some of them, NOT. Here are three of the outlets which included in our itinerary while we were in Sanya.   

- 竹一百 (Bamboo 100) -

All about Bamboo! Panda loves Bamboo. 

They even create textile (cloths) with Bamboo and whatever they could figure off. Simply the goodness of Bamboo.

- Introducing their Product -

Every visitor need to sit down and listen to what they want to introduce. It's the most time consuming part and we dislike it.

- Fish Pond -

In case you are wondering, they are introducing the bamboo charcoal which they inserted in to the fish pond. Anyone, I just like the water fountain. ;)

Off we go!

- Random Snap -

Cool handmade art.

And so we stop by a tourist area for.... shopping again. And I did combined the visiting outlets of two days in to one entry. Bear with me of what I went through during that "awesome" trip. :/

- 国际俱乐部 (Entertainment Centre) -

- Local Delicacy -

My mom is a Hainanese, but she never said or even come across that Hainan is well known with their Salted Chicken Eggs. Mom did bought for us after we had our foot massage. And kid you not, the local over there were surprise when my mom could speak the same language as theirs and from the same province.

- Foot Massage -

The Chinese doctor introduced the goodness of Chinese herbal and foot massages. Convincing that foot massage is important for our health and my gosh, it was my first time being massaged. It was tickling. By the way, the herbal in packet was the product they are selling.

- 茶博士家 (Dr. Tea) -

The same building we went on the second day, the next shop to the foot massage outlet.

Tea are famous in China and so many to choose with. *Geleng Kepala*

I hate it when we choose one packet and the promoter goes introducing whatever teas to us, in the end. I didn't buy any. I hate it when promoters do that to me. Annoying.

- Time for Tea? -

Beautiful table set in that well organised tea outlet.

- That's TEA! -

- 茶道 The Art of Tea -

It is expected that we were once again insert in to a small room and been introduced various tea, but I enjoyed it a little bit more.

- Bought by Mom/ Meatball-online -

- All the Knife -

- All the Knife - 

Sigh... Another room to go in and we said, we do not buy any!!!!!

- Souvenir -

Claimed our souvenir while we were walking out.

That's all with what we need to expect while travel with tours in China, the tour guide mentioned that in China, all those local products outlet we went are being connected with their Government and they have to insert the places into our visiting and non the less, all the tourist spots as well, where we have to pay la!

That's all for the day! Good day!

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Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南), China (中国) : South Sea Scenery 大东海旅游风景区 - Their Tropical Lifestyle

Hainan Part 2 - 大东海旅游风景区 (South Sea Scenery), 三亚 (Sanya)

Okay.. Firstly, the Hainan tour which we subscribed was for duration of four (4) days, three (3) nights. It wasn't complete nightmares but some parts really "sucks", the so called 4 signature dishes really made us disappointed so much, imagine more than 10 person sharing 2 small size of fish (-_-") and the best food I had was actually at the halfway PETROL STATION that we drop by for nature call (toilet). Awesome Hainanese Chicken Rice and Coffee, the happiest place our family enjoyed! 

p/s : Some may say their trip to Hainan were good, in fact, the tour we took up from Hong Kong that's matters the most (the problem).

Back to first tourist destination - Sanya!

- South Sea Scenery -

It seems like the lifestyle and weather in Sanya is the same as Malaysia, the tropical weather, the coconuts trees as well!

- Local Production/ Crafts -

Well, don't ask me why did you see women wearing tudungs, I was surprised as well when I see them.

They are selling clams necklaces, bracelets and other souvenirs that we can find in Malaysia as well. Neh... didn't buy any from them.

- At the Beach -

Packed with locals and tourists at the beach. They do have white sandy beach there.

By the way, weather at Sanya is WARM, you know it when you see the word TROPICAL, right?

- The Beach -

Still loving the beach we found in Sabah. :)

- The Beach -

- Self along the beach -

We visited South Sea Scenery for a while and had a short photography session and off we walk back to the tour bus.

Something interesting that we saw when we were on our way...

- Creative Signatures "Designer" -

We gave him our Chinese name and he designed for us. :) 

By the way, did you realise the wording behind him? It's Russian language, there's more and more tourists from Russia visiting China in later years. Even the Russian learn to speak fluent Chinese.

- The Signatures -

I keep them as remembrance, something worth to be keep from Sanya tour.

That's all for South Sea Scenery visiting!

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【中国游玩记】 海南岛之旅！Fun In China : Hainan Trip!

Hainan Part 1 - Random Stuff

So, after a few days exploring Hong Kong with the local relative, it's time to say goodbye to HK and meet HK in another few days time!

But WAIT A MINUTE! Did I mentioned to you that my Hainan trip was HORRIBLE! VEGETABLE!! My Gosh, the food was lousy, the local tourist guide which our HK travel agent provided us was giving us a headache, quite a bad service served and the last night in Hainan.. Don't mention, the older group of aunts and uncles of mine even quarel with the tourist guide for what she had done.

p/s : I won't mention which travel agent we subscribed with, thought the package we took was worthwhile and turn out to be one terrible trip. 

And now....

Here's what I did on that day and some random photos of Hainan.

- Tsing Ma Bridge 青马大桥 -

Heading to the airport! We were excited before and will be meeting our relatives as well.

- Hello Hainan - 

- Nai Yao Zu 奶油朱 -

Our light breakfast at the airport before departure. Taste quite okay.

- The Airport Scene -

And we went updating our Facebook while waiting for departure. :P

Off we go and we landed in Sanya (三亚), Hainan. The weather is similar to Malaysia, tropical weather over there as well. It wasn't a surprise that we could see many things alike at Hainan, the coconut trees, the sandy beach and etc.

In fact, I still love our Malaysian culture more (most of it). Just like what we often heard about China citizen, some of them are like barbarian, uncivilise people. My goodness, really open my eyes on them. (@_@)

- Welcome to Hainan! 海南岛 -

We hop on in to our tour bus and off we go to the next station, lunch. The lunch or whatever food we had during that trip, which inclusive in the package just dissatisfying and I won't talk about it. Somehow we felt like eating in a very uncomfortable environment with a lot of China locals sitting all over the place. Yaiks!  

- Random lifestyle -

- Random lifestyle -

- Random place - 

- Random snap - 

 - 美丽之冠 -

"Mei Li Zhi Guan" (Direct translation : Beauty Trophy). It was where the international pageant were held three times before. We even spotted Malaysia flag as well! 

- 美丽之冠 -

- That's random -

Although it is hot weather, but China citizen here just.... being themselves.

Oh well... next will be a place where we can find in Malaysia as well! 

So... Hello... Hainan! *Glurp*

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