Hainan Civil Aviation Hotel
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Hainan - Transit in Haikou
... being known as an expensive island in China, it was still very cheap to eat what the locals ate in Haikou. A bowl of noodle cost less than ¥7. 23/10/2012 - Tuesday I had western-style breakfast (¥20) at the hostel and also a cup of coffee for ¥10 - half the price of the meal. Coffee was considerably expensive in China based on Chinese standard. The weather in Hainan was almost the same as Singapore at 32 degree Celsius. Not a temperature that I would like while ...
Faw'cha, FAW'CHA, FAAWWW'CHA.
... had showered since Friday morning and we hadn't changed out clothes, so you can imagine we both smelt disgusting!
We got into a taxi and showed the taxi driver the Cantonese word for Train - Faw'cha. Nobody around spoke much English and we had lost sight of the lads we met on the ferry so I continually shouted Faw'cha at the man. A young girl and lad also got into the taxi with us and we assumed that they were too heading to the ...
Robbed and scammed and still alive
... and my nationwide card. It was stolen. I woke up this morning with 60 Baht that I found in my bra to my name.... **** !! So i cancelled my card, had a little panic and talked it through. This is the third time in five days that we have had cards lost. uggh! But In a way im glad that it happened here because Aoi has said that I can stay at the hostel for free until i can pay and Olly lent me 1000B so it could be worse! Just have to go to the police station, tell my insurance company, ...
Haikou
... in mind, whether heavily loaded or otherwise, and China is one of them.
In Haikou there are huge busy streets, and the only way to get across some of them is via some very widely spaced out bridges. And to walk between them you walk along what I naively thought was a pavement, but which turned out to be a motorbike lane, where pedestrians are tolerated, not welcomed.
In China as a whole, ...
Vietnam here I come
As I wait here for my Vietnamese visa in Nanning I'm looking forward to finally crossing that border and tick one big thing off my to-do-list. Now I can finally truthfully start telling stories with the line "Back in 'Nam..."
But anyway I came to Nanning from Hainan, a tropical island off the South China coast, where I spent the last few weeks cycling the island and chillin' at the beach. When I first landed ...