I am back! in fact i am back on xmas eve. counting down to xmas at the airport. surprisingly, there isn't any xmas mood at the airport while the some parts of singapore are partying like crazy. or perhaps i was too shagged to know abt any party going on.
And then yest was my duty day. After 1 day at home, got to go back to camp again… sianz X 100!!!!!!
hainan is a not bad place to be. In fact, this is my 2nd trip there. The last time I went was when I was 10. in 1996. i love the weather there! not too cold, but not hot also. It is just like in an aircon environment. so cooling. a jacket on myself and i feel just so comfortable. Plus all the nice scenery. ok, a day by day recrap....
Day 1
nothing much to talk abt. spent the whole day travelling there. flew to guangzhou, then another flight to haikou. Flew china southern airlines. Crappy airline. Cramp seats on a B757. crappy service. Crappy food. And the flight attendant speak atrocious English!!! Can’t understand a single shit of English they are talking. Reached Guangzhou after 3hr plus. guangzhou airport is just so damm gorgeous, but also damm bloody big!!! have to walk quite a distance from the gate to the customs, plus for a transfer flight, still have to go retrive our luggage and then deposit it again. and there are also quick to suck you of your money. after depositing our luggage, the check in staff told me, for each luggage, there is 10 yuan baggage insurance fee for each bag. Ok, so there goes $70 for us ( 9 ppl traveling). Then they ask if you want to arrange for a transport to go to the domestic terminal (it is quite a distance away). Considering tat my grandma can’t walk well, we said ok. Then it is another $10 each. So there goes $90. for a 5 min trip on a golf cart. Some sort of cheap trill I told my cousin. Never sat on one before. After a long wait at the airport, we finally got to board the plane and it was OMG! Before they announce we can board, those mainlanders ( I don’t mean any insult here) are all queueing up. When boarding starts, they just squeeze and push their way through. There is no such thing as ‘queueing’. So having no choice, we got to push also. Dun’t understand why they are in an eager to get on. It is not free seating. And somemore after landing, before the plane stop at the gate, some already stood up and get their luggage, wanting to leave the plane when the door is not even open. The whole lot of us just sat still comfortably until most of them got off before we walk out. This is not my only encounter with such unruly people in the trip. Will mention again later. It was already bloody late when we touched down, so we boarded the bus and went to the hotel. One thing shiok was tat the whole tour grp only had 9 of us (all my family), and the bus was like 20 plus seater. Haha. Lots of place to stretch out.
The golf cart at the airportDay 2
Woke up feeling damm sleepy. Expecting a good breakfast. Those international breakfast buffet tat consist of both western and Chinese meal. But guess what, breakfast served at their hotels is crap. Just some super oily noodle, so bun, porridge and a soya bean milk tat is yucky! After eating so tat I can survive the morning, we set off on our tour. We went to visit a place called ‘ping yi pao tai’ ( I think). There is nothing much except for some cannon that were mounted there many yrs ago. Surprisingly, there isn’t any other visitors in the park. Then we visited ‘wu gong ci’(五公祠). It is a temple built to worship 5 officals from the past who were banished to hainan. In the past, as hainan was at the extreme south, it was a place where people thought to be very desolated, and so officals who made mistake were being banished there. One of the more known was su dong po (or what we call sotong ball, I still remember chen lao shi told us this during chi lesson in sec 2).
A statue of 'sotong ball' at wu gong ci
After tat, we proceed to BOAO forum site (博鳌亚洲会场). The nice thing abt tat place was the breeze. As the site is just located beside the sea, the breeze is just so cooling and it is really a nice place to have a convention. We also got a chance to take a boat along the wan quan river (万泉河). We eventually stopped on a stretch of beach. this stretch of the beach is tat one length of the beach is the river, while the other side is the sea. The sand on the beach resembles tat of sentosa’s so much tat I was wondering, is the beach fake like sentosa? after visiting BOAO, we boarded the coach again and we traveled all the way to sanya.
The meeting hall for the BOAO forum. How nice it is to have a meeting in open space.
Photo taken at the beach near BOAO venue. So bloody windy, can see the jacket zipped up all the way
Day 3
Sanya is located at the southern end of the hainan island, where it is famous for it beaches. Also recently, miss world 2005 was held in sanya. If I had gone on the trip one week earlier, I may get the chance to see the candidates. Oh, I still remember miss korea !!! our first visit was to the nan shan temple (南山寺) , where the tallest guan yin statue in the world is located. This place is more of a tourist attraction than a temple, and like every other tourist attraction, they are out to milk the tourist money. After paying for the admission ticket, visitors are ‘advised’ to buy a tram ticket, which will bring you around the place as the whole place is bloody big. One good thing is tat, one tram ticket is enough, and you can get on and off at any of the sites in the temple. Of course, have to rush for seats (free seating leh)…. One of the place we went to, had a guide bringing us around. It is like a sort of museum, but with exhibits related to Buddhism. The guide will ask you to peform activities. Like touching the various parts of the dragon for different luck, setting a lotus lamp for your family, wishing for good luck etc, and all these cost money. And they phase it in a nice way, calling it ‘money for a good deed’ (some sort like this). And when you are in there, one will obviously pay for it. It’s not nice to be so ‘giam’ after the guide used up so much saliva to bring you around and showing you the various thing. Just hope the money indeed help us ‘do good deed’. Lunch was special. We ate vegetarian food. It is buffet style and the plate we used is those type of metal tray with a few holes in it. Those type the army used in the past. But the vege food was great. An irony to tat was tat after lunch, outside the restaurant, we saw someone sending food to the kitchen, and guess what is saw? Pig trotters!! Next we visited the guan yin statue itself. Some parts of the construction has not been completed and we can only view the guan yin statue from a certain spot.
'tian ya'
'hai jiao'
Ok. I should stop here for the moment least my window go crazy again and i have to rewrite all the above. Part 2 coming up!
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