Newyantai Hotel Hainan
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Hainan - Transit in Haikou
... were overpriced and getting polluted by hordes of Chinese tourists with their littering habits. Almost every Chinese travelers and staff working at hostels gave that feedback. I also got myself a local mobile phone card for making local calls while in China - my iPhone was still on my Singapore line for urgent calls from home. Anyway, the first day was mainly administrative since Hai Dian Island was not a tourist place, so most of the activities here were mostly for the ...
Faw'cha, FAW'CHA, FAAWWW'CHA.
... You can imagine our concern when he was driving in the opposite direction to the sign that said train station, but we assumed that this was because there was two stations, both a fast train and a slow train and that he was taking us there.
However after me constantly shouting Faw'cha at the man and the Chinese girl going: "No, tomorrow, tonight hotel, tonight sleep, tomorrow, tomorrow".
We were getting annoyed which lead ...
Haikou
... building. A rather large rat ran towards us, away from the hotel, which didn't inspire me with confidence. Neither did the passive-aggressive night porter/security guard who threw some keys at us, took our money and barked "tomorrow" at us in Chinese when we suggested (via pidgin Mandarin and hand gestures) that he might like to give us some change and/or a receipt. As it turned out the next day we ...
Vietnam here I come
... supporters were waiting at the bottom to greet me with champagne. It didn't turn out quite like that and the streets were lined more with old women selling fruit than anything else but I was already pumped with adrenaline so I decided against staying here and got another 20km under my belt before stopping at a town called Bating. There's lovely scenery and a few mountains around here so I planned to stay a day or two but when I had to settle for a ...
Last day in Haikou......
... was coming in. So we hung out in the pool area- kids went up and down the slide then we went to the fish spa.
Let me tell you that was one freaky experience. Water was about 20" deep so you could either just keep your feet in or lay in the water on your front or back. It takes the fish about 20 seconds to find you then you suddenly have hundreds of fish eating your skin. They kind of look like we do when we ...