Little known to the rest of the world is this "haven" I like to call "heaven" if the pun fits. Hainan is situated in the South East China sea. It is a long stretch of beach the best and most beautiful parts of which are easily accessible. Ancient China civilization boasted this to be the location of the "Edge of the sky and the sea" because it sure looks and feels like it. The horizon knows no boundaries and on a calm day, which is most days...you can look and look and look to your heart's content to what seems to be a panoramic view of the edge of the sky stretching towards ..nothingness. This is not a surfers paradise, but boasting a 7km stretch of the whitest of sand, the smoothest and the bluest of water..whats not to like?
I like Hainan because I can empty my mind when I am there and for just that one week or so, be worry free. All I have to worry about while there is not burning to a charcoal black and keeping a close count on my beer intake.
Me and my man went there for our Chinese New year vacation, his first and my second visit. We got off to a great start with upgraded tickets owing to our being late arriving at the airport (we are on vacation!) He is German, so he gets off on getting to ride the "Maglev" China's show off toy which only covers about 15-20 km to the airport. Aparrently, its really ...manly to be in something that gets up to 435km/hr in just 3 or so minutes. Hainan did not dissapoint me, great heat, no humidity, cheating weasles of taxi drivers, noisy chinese vacationers welcoming the new year with tonnes (no joke) of fireworks. Perfect engridients for a perfect holiday, not to mention being dissapointed to meet "other's" colleagues who had no understanding of what a group date is and just how much PDA is acceptable in polite company. Then came the seafood special which sent us all on a great trip to the pot every 5 minutes ...there is a bonding activity should you ever need to spice up a young romance...food poisoning will ensure you share the most disgusting of all functions and force u to be in tight confines for up to 18 hours..how is that for getting close?
Anyways, am a bit rusty after a long self imposed exile, or rather "silent member" status. But what the hell...thought I'd sample the latest look and see if I still have my sea legs.