Well, well, here I am again, still in China and still livin it up. This past weekend we went on another 4 day vacation to Sanya. Sanya is a vacation spot that is often described as the Hawaii of China and Europe (only the Western Family version). It was waay sweet. It took us approximately 23 hours to get from Kaiyin (where I live) to our hostel in Sanya, and about 16 of that was on a seat in a train.
Inside the train. They sell standing tickets, so for the first about 5-7 hours they all stand and sometimes squat in the isle until some seats become available a little later on. Trying to make your way in or out becomes a challenge, as you can imagine.
The outside of our train after we got to Sanya. I just like this pic because it reminds me of those art projects that you have t do with the perspective/3-D lines.
Ah, the beach.
Ah, Mary Beth and I, who ended up getting burned really bad at the beach. Well burned is kind of an understatement. It was kind of like we were little chicken tenders that have been fried using a blow torch. Chinese sun is very different than American or even Mexican sun, and it doesn't help that Chinese sun block is different than American sunblock. In America, you have sun tanning lotion, because everyone wants to be tan. Here, there's only sun whitening lotion, because the asians want to be white. It just kind of shows that no matter where you go, there will always be people who are unhappy with how their body looks. So the best solution is just to be happy with how you are, just as you are.
After the beach on the second day, Kaitlyn and I decided to risk it and do a catapult ride that was near the beach (sorry it's sideways) :)
On the third day we went to Monkey Island, which I guess is some kind of preserve for macaque monkeys. They had this really fun cable car ride up that went super fast and had a pretty great view.
Monkey Island was really beautiful and had free roaming monkeys in parts of it.
We got to see a monkey performance show while we were there and it was pretty awesome! My favorite part was when they put up this plank that was only about 4 or 5 inches wide, and had a goat with a monkey on him climb up a ladder to it, walk across it, turn around, then balance on this little spinning disk thing while the monkey did a hands stand on its horns. Incredible.
Huge Buddha statue kind of randomly just put there on the island, it came complete with monks who let you set some incense on fire.
This is one of my favorite pictures I took on monkey island, even though it's kind of sad. He was one monkey in a row of prolly 8 or 10 that they hook up to these posts and as visitors walk by they hold up poles with flags on the end.
After we got back from that, we went to dinner then headed home to Kaiyin on another 22 hour journey. Until next time, zai chen!
