Sunday, December 31, 2006
whee i'm back from my holiday in hainan island! haha it was nice and fun and not at all like what i expected. (: hee maybe because everyone was going "ugh how come you're going to that kind of place, it's dirty and backward and whatnot." yepp. but in actually fact it's a really nice place!
haha okay i shall start from the first day. lol the first day was really crazy. we woke up at 2:30 am! yepp. in the morning. haha cos our flight was at 6 am or something. yepp we flew by tiger airways so we had to go to the budget terminal. omg the budget terminal is seriously quite cheapo. and empty. and tiger airways was seriously gross. super squeezy and everything. yepp. and the flight attendants were wearing this lame cheesy outfit: yellow top, black pants and tiger-print sash. sigh.
yeah anyway our holiday was quite cool cos we had our own personal tour guide and driver and car! haha yepp. no need to wake up so early in the morning, and no need to squeeze with other people in a tour group either (: our tour guide was quite good (: hee.
yepp so on the first day we drove to sanya. it's this little city. (: yepp and we stayed at sanya pearl river nantian spa resort (: omg it rocked! haha. it had 67 hot spring pools! and a big spa too! (: haha and the hotel room was nice too. it had this large balcony (: and the bathroom rocked too! (:
oh and on our way to the hotel, we visited this village called boao. it's an old village but the houses there are quite nice: made of stone and really spacious (: lol and the people there are really old! like really old. so cool right.
at night we went to aiwanting for dinner. i like that place! the food was really good, especially the dessert (: haha. we had durian and pineapple flavoured golden pillow thingies. and pumpkin cakes! haha.
second day: we went to nanshan. it was really big! haha there are a lot of record-breaking stuff there! like it has the largest gold and jade sculpture of kuanyin there. and it also has the largest dragon-shaped inkstone. (: and there was this really large statue of kuanyin that was built some distance out into the sea (: it was super cool!
haha ohh and i forgot to mention that the weather rocked! yepp it was winter so it was nice and cool with some sun. yayy haha. we had lunch at this vegetarian restaurant. i don't want to sound mean, but it really sucked.
after nanshan, we went to yalong bay. wow the scenery there was really great haha. (: it was like a bit mountainous and quite green. haha. yepp and the hotels there were quite nice too. the beach rocked. (:
and then we went to dadonghai. it wasn't as nice as yalong bay but still quite nice. (:
we went to aiwanting for dinner again! haha this time we tried the coconut steamed rice. it was for dessert btw. haha quite a cool concoction right. and it was quite yummy too (: lol but very filling.
third day was our free day! haha we visited the hot springs in the hotel (: lol at first the hot spring water was really unbearably hot, but after that we got used to it. lol the water was supposed to be like 35 to 39 deg celsius. haha there were sooo many different types of pools there. there was a herbal pool, fish therapy pool, flower pool, coconut pool, coffee pool, icy cold pool, and many others!
fish therapy pool was quite fun! you just had to sit still in the water and the fish would all come and bite at your dead skin (: yepp. haha it's super ticklish okay. apparently it originated from turkey. it does work to some extent... my skin doesn't feel so dry anymore (: whee yayy
haha but my fave pool is still the coffee pool! haha it's seriously coffee water okay. haha the coffee smell was so nice and strong hee (:
fourth day: we drove to haikou. haha nothing much. basically we checked into the hotel and then went shopping. (: yayy we ate bbq sweet potato! haha. and the food there was really good and cheap (: ooh and we bought some souvenirs made of coconut shells. (: yepp and they have a carrefour there too, but it sells quite different stuff from what we have here. haha the food rocked! we bought bangbangwa shredded beef: mala flavour and wuxiang flavour (: and we bought corn flavoured sausage too! haha.
yeah so basically this holiday was nice and fun! haha.
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dawn: heyy hello! yepp it's really long time no see! (: happy 2007 to you! (: yayy
