__ _.--..--._ _ .-' _/ _/\_ \_'-. |__ / _/\__/\_ \__| |___/\_\__/ \___| \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ ____\__/___ . - ' ' -. / \ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~ ~!~~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~pjb ****************************************************************** Sea and beach in Sanya, Hainan province ****************************************************************** 10th-July-2022 Shanghai, Super Hot & Wet, 38 degree celsius Written with Vim, on LinuxMint Cinnamon 20.3, Lenovo ideapad 710S ****************************************************************** In last phlog, we were in the mountain areas of Zhejiang province, Anji town, enjoied the mountain view and playing with valley river drifting, was peacefull in the half mountain family run inn, nice night sky view and listening the bugs and birds. ## Sanya, for the sea and beach we missing so much --------------------------------------------------- After Anji, We went back to Shanghai, and took the flight to Sanya, the city on most south province of China, Hainan (island) province. Hainan island/province is the most south province of China, it's close to Vitenam, Thailand. While Sanya is the most south city of Hianan island, its latitude is 18 degree North, tropical weather. It is the most popular tourism city for its sea and beach in domestic China, usually people go there during winter time for north and middle of China, because the warm(hot) weather, many Northeast province citizen migrate to Sanya, so, you would see many people with Northeast China accent there. We went there many years before for some time, later, Thailand Phuket island is getting quite popular to go, it's further south, good hotel service, nice sea and beach, so that was also a very popular destination for many Chinese people around especially Sprint Festival (Chinese New Year) time. Sanya has several coastal bay, like Sanya Bay, Yalong Bay, with countless hotels and resorts, they most built on the inner side of coastal road, and usually 200 meter (over or under the coastal road) to the see and beach. ## Hotel facilities and the sea & beach ---------------------------------------- The hotel we stay also has it's own beach area, there is a tunnel under the coastal road, through which you go to the sea and beach from the hotel. Inside the hotel, they have several swiming pool or playing pool and water slide (pipe) facility. 1.2m depth for kids and people who prefer play, and 1.5m for swiming. We prefer the 1.5m, less people and we can focusing on swiming. They also planted many coconut tree inside the hotel as well as many other trees, flowers and grass, it feels like full of green and water if you watch in room in the building. The building/rooms are all build towards the sea direction, no room in the oppsite direction, only corridors! The sight view from the room is aowsome, facing the south China sea with gree/blue water extending to the end of the sky and sea, there are also two island in the view, and one called Xidao island actually having population and tourism site on it. On the other side of the road, it is the long beach and sea with band of coconut trees, it's really fantastic view if you standing on the beach or in the sea toward the coconuts tree belts alongside the coastal road. The beach is no need to say really nice, soft fine sands, well managed umbrella and bed & tower services provided free by the hotel, as well as the shower facilities. I really enjoy going a bit further into the sea, where water could almost cover my height, I would swim there on top of the wave and enjoy the cool sea water. Once bored in water, I go back to the beach, read the Tree-Body Problems Sci-Friction book and enjoy the beautiful sea view! ## Foods, drinks and other plays --------------------------------- The food in Hainan is excellent as well, like Coconut Rice, Wenchang Chicken, all kind of sea foods, Rice noodles, they taste like totally local-- local made with local land/sea produced materials. The drinks, you could imagine, all could made with local fruits, you could directly drink the juice from coconut, especilly amazing if it is iced, and it is not expensive, with 10-15RMB for one coconut. There are also produced drinks with cooked coconut or mango, they add more other material in, so kind of mixed fruit meat drink, iced, in such a hot weather, that's life saving! There is also many other place to go for various facilities, like one we went to called Atlantis waterland, they build all sort of facilities that playing with water, it's like Disney land but all with water plays, drifting from tall pipe with well designed curve and up & downs, a train-like clambing up a "mountain" and dropping into the water in a pipe track. The most excited one for me was the "Dive of Seagod", it's like almost a free dive (I guess 75 dgree pipe track) that you slide from the height of I guess 20 meters within 3 seconds. ## Bonus --------- I was able to go to the cinema in Sanya watching the latest movie <Jurassic Park: Dominion>, and in the noon time, it is almost no one else in the cinema! While in Shanghai, due to past 2 month lockdown, the cinema was not openning yet in end of June, it was really lucky that I could enjoy it in Sanya. Alright! This really was a satisfied "summer" holiday in Sanya!