HNA Hotel Downtown Haikou

... everyone was eating at. We floated around for ages trying to get someones attention, obviously we stood a while as the chinese love to ignore you. We started to feel more and more awkward, which takes alot in china, our awkwardness-o-meter has gone up 500%. Except for the young crowd of Chinese boys and girls who soon started to gather around us, trying to help us order some food. It wasnt long until we were sat at there table with 12 pairs of Chinese youngsters staring at ...

... got up in the dark the morning of New Years Eve & headed off to Wuhan airport for the 1st leg of my journey. As there were no direct flights to Malaysia from Wuhan, I flew to Haikou which is the capital of Hainan (a tropical island at the southern tip of China). I sat next to a very young couple who had just got married & were flying to Hainan for their honeymoon. Just when I was feeling all lovey-dovey for them, I looked over to see a woman staring at me like I was from outer space ...

Huoneessani oli kaksi ihmista Mark austraaliasta ja joku Hollantilainen tytto joka lahti aika pian Sanyalle. Tytto sanoi etta taalla ei ole mitaan mielenkiintoista kun kysyin etta miksi lahdet sinne. Totesin saman ihan itsekkin. En loytanyt rantaa paikasta ollenkaan. Eika muutenkaan ollut oikein miaan nahtavaa paikassa. Joten paatin itsekkin kokeilla Sanyaa seuraavana paivana. Otin paivalla pienet torkut. Kun herasin Mark kysyi etta kiinnostaisiko ...

... on the intertnet,and when I express it her answer is "Me too". We are sitting down for a meeting in a corner of the hall. The boss of the company is greeting us welcome. Her name is Ms Long. She is giving me the surprise, which is an invitation for me to write articles and also publish pictures from my trips around Hainan. The have just started the work with a new homepage. I am very honoured and glad for the invitation and will do my very best to ...

... stage. I was fortunate to be missed so I got pictures of the others. Our flight out was not until 2:30 the next day, so we took a taxi to the volcano park for a quick see. It is a beautiful place. We didn't have time to fully enjoy it, but we at least made it up to the top of the volcano. My collegue went into the volcano while I continued around ...

... rice. Some of the restaurants we stop at on the road are dirty. The hotel ones are nice though. The one we just stopped at had wide open doors and tons of flies. I even saw some kind of lizard crawl across the ceiling and a dog ran through. Definitely wouldn't pass a U.S. inspection! Good thing I brought my toilet paper too. It was another squatter with no T.P. There is only one type of gas station ...

... soup, vegetables. I try to at least try everything I'm served. After that we went into the Chinese countryside with Sineerat's family. There were some small old houses there. Sineerat's family did some ancestor worship by offering food and burning incense. They also set off a huge string of firecrackers. The biggest I've ever seen of that type. It was to welcome us. We walked farther into the ...

... side of his cheeks, begins to waddle in the familiar "fat man" manner and comes out with "Ao da li ya de nu ren pi gu HEN da" (Australian women have REAL big *****). ****en ripper!! Clearly he's spent some time in the North Western suburbs of Melbourne where I grew up. After lunch, we walk up the mountain. Spectacular views and a great short walk, which doesn't hurt anywhere near as much as I expect. The crater itself is quite cool. Been some time ...

... any of the moves. It was definately an interesting day, to put it mildly. Thinking I would only have 1 or 2 lines was a big mistake. 'Twas a big day indeed. A difficult day. Like I said, I had to learn many lines in Chinese. The English lines often didn't make any sense. "Last scene" ended up being about 4 or 5 scenes. When I thought we were finished, the script would be thrust in my face ...

Sono tornato in cima all'isola, sperando di dover passare qui solo una notte. Domani cerchero di spostarmi in direzione Hong Kong. Per il resto niente novita...Ho passato un bel periodo a Sanya (al sud dove c erano le spiagge), l ultimo giorno sono andato a vedere l isola delle scimmie: bella, si puo girare e vedere le scimmie libere, ma poi c e anche il centro dell isola dove fanno spettacoli per i visitatori e li le maltrattano. Daro mie notizie quando saro a Hong Kong... saluti a tutti