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Hainan - Transit in Haikou
... place to try the local street food if one was not used to the lifestyle here. I also went to Xixiu Beach (西秀海滩) by bus and took a long stroll to Jiari Beach (假日海滩, Holiday Beach). Xixiu Beach was deserted and beach-goers gathered at Holiday Beach - but not much crowd on a weekday. There was not much to see since I was not there to swim. It was a very hot and boring day. Luckily, I was due to fly out of Haikou the following ...
Faw'cha, FAW'CHA, FAAWWW'CHA.
... hitting the taxi driver: "F**k off, let me out" and me shouting into his ear "Faw'cha". This went on for about 30minutes until the man pulled up outside a hotel and pointed to take us inside.
We refused and were both getting highly annoyed so we shouted over to some security guards from the hotel, who did not speak much English but was being as helpful as he could. A tour bus pulled up and off got a lot of tourists: "do you ...
Robbed and scammed and still alive
jesus christ!
Might as well just start from the start! The night before trekking I'd been told by a lot of people that its a bit rubbish, you hop on an elephant, drive to a forest and walk around and then float down the river. So I stayed up at the hostel with the two hippiest people (its knarly dude/ look at my positive energy crystals) and they played guitar. Woke up tired already and set off into the jungle. Had a group of 11 and everyone was lovely. Driving through chilli ...
Haikou
... with our change, but that was not conveyed by the tone or the gestures. The rat was more welcoming.
Despite our qualms, the room was fine, big and clean and with a hot shower. We had had no dinner, but had picked up some crisps on the way, so we had those as a sad substitute for dinner. We had seen an advert on TV for some crisps where a girl sends a boy out to get some Pepsi, which turns out to be to ...
Vietnam here I come
... and back roads and through a great wee fishing village that's dwarfed by a massive bridge that halfway accross I realised wasn't finished so had to get a local to drop me accross on a boat. When I got to Wenchang I got another boat over to Dongjiao where there's a coconut plantation and I wound my way through coconut tree lined lanes with the odd workshop where people sat drilling holes in coconut shells for some reason.
The next day ...
Location
Other places to stay in Haikou
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Baohua Harbour View Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | 4 star hotelfrom $65 -
Meritus Mandarin Haikou
Longhua District, Haikou | 4 star hotelfrom $106 -
Xinyuan Hot Spring Hotel
Downtown, Haikou | 4 star hotelfrom $43 -
Crown Spa Resort Hainan
Meilan Airport, Haikou | 5 star hotelfrom $74 -
Golden Coast Lawton Hotel Haikou
No.68 Renmin Avenue, Haikou | Hotelfrom $62 -
Huandao Tide Hotel
Meilan District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $68 -
Newyantai Hotel Hainan
Haidian Island, Haikou | Hotelfrom $174 -
Sun City Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | 4 star hotelfrom $46 -
Haikou Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | 4 star hotelfrom $37 -
Tianyou Grand Hotel
Binhai Boulevard, Haikou | Hotelfrom $84 -
International Financial Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $28 -
West Coast Hotspring Hotel Hainan
West Coast, Haikou | Hotelfrom $109 -
Hainan Airlines Business Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $59 -
Treasure Island Hotel
Meilan District, Haikou | Hotel -
Seaview International Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $98 -
Hainan Ye Hai Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $92 -
Tower Hotel
Binhai Boulevard, Haikou | Hotelfrom $26 -
Kai Wei Hotel
Binhai Boulevard, Haikou | Hotelfrom $128 -
New State Guesthouse
Binhai Boulevard, Haikou | 5 star hotelfrom $100 -
Conifer Garden Hotel Haikou
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $84 -
Lihua Hotel
Meilan District, Haikou | Hotel -
Wuzhishan International Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $126 -
New Osroc Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $53 -
Xiangtianyuan Hot Spring Hotel
Meilan District, Haikou | 4 star hotel -
Herton Mingyang Hotel
No.29 Haixiu East Road, Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $27 -
Golden Lotus Herton Seaview Hotel
Longhua District, Haikou | Hotelfrom $41
