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Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Done my Chinese beach bit so now time to pack and move on. Interesting !, if Father Christmas wasn’t enough today even had a camel on the beach. At least he looked more at home and a vast improvement to the quad bikes running you down whilst sunbathing. But still think nothing beats the old guys with the rubber rings and worse the arm bands on as they go into the water, hard not to laugh, even beats whole families wearing identical hawaiian outfits. As LP says, the fun of Sanya is just people watching, wise words indeed.

So check out a few places on the island then hit the mainland again and head south for Christmas.

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Sanya, Yalong Bay

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Yesterday checked out Yalong Bay as its where the UK package tours apparently now going and also reputed to have the best beaches.

Despite an overcast and very windy day so not the best time to hit the beach, the place still on a lovely strip of white sandy beach. Surprisingly for China, given that as far as I am aware the country isn’t overloaded with great beaches on the mainland nor warm weather at this time of year, the place surprisingly undeveloped. The big name western hotels and a few others but other than that all fairly limited. However like everywhere in China lots of construction and I am sure development will follow at the usual speed China is renowned for. The weather certainly more windy than where I am staying with red flags flying and not the ones showing the hammer and sickle so maybe the coast is fairly exposed. Even Father Christmas was there taking a winter break !! ( here we already have the Christamas trees up – who said Christmas is becoming very commercial ).

All in all ok but on a long haul holiday not convinced, better places to visit in China and better beach culture elsewhere even if I am sure the Miss World competion gives it great promotion.

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Sanya

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
So the most beautiful girls in the world are Chinese or at least the Chinese girl won the Miss World crown down the road from here last night. I am sure, like the Eurovision song contest, politics never comes ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Sanya

Friday, November 30th, 2007
Just as I was getting settled in Yangshou it was time to move on. Visa renewal no problem so yesterday took the sleeper bus from Guilin to Sanya. A 20 hour bus/boat/bus combo so quite a long journey ... [Continue reading this entry]

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