Everyone has that special place...

I'M BACK FROM
HAINAN ISLAND ( 海 南 岛) IN CHINA!!
14/06 - 18/06
It's such a pretty place! :) I don't think it can get any better. Heh.
I did so many special things there!
With my ever wonderful and happening family you all would envy like siao. 10 PEOPLE!
We all got so much tanner okay. SO BLACK!
Everything about HND's just like, half Thailand, half Malaysia.
Only with alot of chinese wordings.
And they have BILLIONS of coconut trees!
Okay, i'm gonna talk about my trip here, with photos as guidance!
Let's start!!
Symbols: HND=Hainan Dao (island) TG=Tour Guide

WEDNESDAY14/06
Woke up at like, 3.30AM!!!
Cos of the bloody flight which we took in the early morning.
We took three cabs to the budget terminal.
And my cab detoured to my THIRD uncle's house to fetch him. Lazy pig.

So we reached in the DARK early morning, and all felt so sleepy. xx)
Of course, there were other people taking the flight with us too, but they somehow looked so perked up! Guess they took insanity pills. KIDDING.
The budget terminal was kinda cool, cos of the decor and all, compared to China's airport. :D

I BOUGHT MY PERFUME AT THE DFS SHOP! And so did VANESSA. :)

ANNA SUI for me, and ESCADA for Vanessa. It's really fragrant! MMPH.
[Okay, anyway, we took a lot of photos on this trip, so this is gonna be a LONG post. :)]

We drank latte, coffee and ate some snacks, then we left to WALK to the airplane.
Took TIGER AIRWAYS. Not really good, but very cool to walk to the airplane!
My 2nd time doing this.



Uncle, Auntie and Vanessa [top]
My MUM [bottom]
BRIGHT/DARK early morning! At around 5+am. :)
We were about to board the plane...

In the plane...

I was being retarded can. Don't laugh.

My bro sleeping like a LOG, and my uncle posing for the next MR. SINGAPORE! :)

This looks a little like HEAVEN. :D eh?

Looks like a female body part, NO? xP

The flight was a freaking 4HOURS long okay. I don't know what i did during those times.
HND's airport's really small! Alot smaller than Singapore's.
We met up with our very VERY sweet TG!! She was really nice.
We call her, AH-MEI. Cos that's what everyone in HND call the waitresses or people.
Cool right. Her name's AH-CAI. Okay, whatever. It sucks hor.

We took this bus, only for us 10people. It's sort of a, 'SELF-TOUR'.
But we have a TG, so it's still a tour (?!). The bus' nice, the driver EVEN BETTER.
So friendly!
:) We had lunch at this ULU restaurant somewhere near the airport.

Then we went to the MIAO VILLAGE! It's really nice to experience CULTURE.
:0 SO NICE THERE OKAY.


My bro and uncle[top]
R-L: uncle, TG, me, Vane, bro, auntie![bottom]

We did many special things in the village!
And the GUYS had to do this wedding ceremony thing!!
Something like their tradition and all that.
They wanted to let us see and know how they do such things. It was so funny!!
We kept laughing like idiots can. xD
My three uncles, brother and grandpapa were the victims.

PICTURES!



They were all REALLY nervous!
My brother was really faithful to his girlfriend, so he really was kind of reluctant. xP

One part was to carry this bundle thing and cross this really narrow plank across the bride WITHOUT falling.
Only two of my uncles did it though. :)


They had to carry their 'brides' afterwards.
There goes the brides.


But this place was REALLY sickening. Guess what the people here want MOST.
MONEY!!!
It was so BAD you know! Like, we have to pay for EVERYTHING!
Even taking a simple photograph. So sickening.
Still, we just took those photos around the place which don't need payment. xD

Here are some of the pictures!


[1st]Vane and her mum! [2nd]my mum and i
[3rd]My mum, me, grandmama, Vane and her mum!
[4th] SMILE! :D Haven't you ever smiled??

After which, we went for this drum thing in the village. x) Really cool!
There were gongs and all, the types of drums used in LionDances. Nice.
Retarded drumming pictures!

Really fun. :D You can tell that we had fun RIGHT?

Then we saw the cutest, most doll-like person EVER on Earth.
I mean, of all people i've seen, this is amazing. :D

So cute right??!!! She should never EVER grow up man. =) hah. Sweet.
Then Vane and i were invited to dance with the tribal people. SO COOL!
They use like, those bamboo poles la.

We proceeded to our villa-lookalike hotel after the village (from what i remember...).
The hotel was so cool! The water's SPRING water.
It produced a really foul smell, but doesn't stink at all after awhile, when you get used to it.


[bottom]My brother's missing his girl. 0-0 (He dyed his hair, is it obvious?)

And XingLong was really special! All the buildings were ONLY up to 4/5 stories high!!!
Cool man.
After the hotel and dinner, we watched this performance at a really grand theatre.
Quite nice, cos of all the dances and beautiful costumes. =D
But those china people smoked so much! I stank after the entire thing.

THURSDAY 15/06

Next day! This is the MOST interesting day.
Really, for the entire trip. =)

We changed hotels this day.
Did we visit the pearl factory this day? i forgot, but anyway, we visited one.
And BOUGHT alot of pearl-y stuff.
Went to some coconut/coffee plantation afterwards. No pictures, pretty boring.

Then we went to HND's botanical gardens!! It was REAALLY huge!
Compared to Singapore's, it's really too TOO big.

CANDID!

Camera shy uncle!

Happy family! :D

I'm loving all coconut trees! This resembles the indian type of movie ah?!
HOOGAHOOGA. Then suddenly so pleasant. LOL.

Cool type of vehicle we were on! :)

Coconut trees!

THE FUN PART'S HERE.
DIVING!!
UNDERWATER WITH THE CORALS AND SEA URCHINS AND ALL THOSE OTHER STUFF!
This was really a one of a kind experience. :)
ARE YOU JEALOUS?? Tell the truth, baby, cos i'm not gonna care.
BEST BEACH EVER. It's known as the Chinese's HAWAII! It's just so pretty can.
Second best beach on Earth.

Didn't take any pictures while i was UNDERWATER, only the before and after.
It was a one to one instructor thing, and it was really fun. :D
My instructor was so FUNNY!! He kept making me laugh. When i was underwater, i couldn't stop giggling cos of the MAGICAL sights i was looking at.
Okay la, i kept smiling to myself (?!).
[ask me about my experience if you want!]
Fed the fishes and tried to touch them! i stepped on the corals leh, so sorry!
Vanessa, my bro and me. :D

We had to wear the suit which was really uncomfortable.
BIG AND BULKY. Very suffocative. Good thing underneath got swimsuit.
Else die. xx(
I forgot my bikini...
The rest of the FAMILY waited at the other end.
We took a boat down to the other part of the beach.



(My bro looks weird at this point so his face would NOT be put here. xD)

After that, we went for a bath somewhere in the beach.
And it was a COMMUNAL bath okay!! So everybody saw everybody's things.
Like, THINGS. And the china women had really hairy armpits okay. STINKOO.

We went to this really cool mountain place, which was VERY high up, and we sat this roller coaster thing up. Only SIX of us went up, cos the rest were too old, or had height-phobia. xP

[lame]
The ride down was FANTASTIC! Like some ride!!! So fun. No pictures though. xO
I have SANYA below me! :)
Went all the way up just to see the statue...
The MAGNUM there rocks like crazy okay. I LOVE magnum. =D

Back to the hotel afterwards. DINNER ROCKED.
We had all sorts of seafood! 16 course dinner. YUMYUM.
And i saw SEA URCHIN being served! So gross, after seeing it clearly underwater LIVE.
Then we sang KARAOKE. Cos we had dinner in this special room all to ourselves. :] Satisfied.

FRIDAY 16/06
Went to this crystal place. The women bought ALOT of things. MAD MAN.
No pictures.
Then i bought a SILK QIPAO!!! At this silk place.
Vanessa bought a silk cover thing. So EX can. Just a qipao okay! I'm saving it for next year.
A bit early eh?

Afterwards was this 天 涯 海 角 [TIAN YA HAI JIAO] place. Quite nice. :D
Also see the beach one.
Pictures to describe:

Welcome! =B



Did you know that Jockay was like this...

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Lovely couples!

Cool.

I was the one who spiltted the rocks okay!

They had this sugarcane thing, where you had to bite off straight from the cane.
It's cool, but i hate biting like this. SO UNLADY-LIKE. xP

Went to some GUANYIN on water place after that.
Took many pretty pictures! But i'll put a bit, cos i'm seriously tired.


Only two, i'll put up more when i feel good. :D

SATURDAY 17/06
Went up yet another mountain which was kinda high.
We took this 'cable car' like things up, just that it's uncovered.
it's something like those ski type of thing which brings you up the mountain. Whatever.
:D So we went up, and it was really cool, just that there were many graves along the way.
FREAKY.


Bought some cool kind of hat which can be folded on the way down.
And i saw a GOAT!


Then we took the bus and went down to HAIKOU.
Some pictures at a historical place there:

We've gone mad!

Back to normal...

Many lovely pictures taken. :D

Went to the city and shopped, their KFC rocked. So much more better than Singapore's okay.
We were so happy when we saw KFC!! Cos of the food we've been eating for the past few days.
Didn't buy anything though, but Vanessa did!
She bought this PUCCA wallet and Maybelline's mascara. UNFAIR.

Okay, then after that we went back to the hotel and slept.

SUNDAY 18/06
Came home. Bad ride on the plane.
So sad to leave TG. :( Sad to leave HND too!

Overall=8/10! Cos of the money and food.
....
Ate steamboat then came home.
SUPER GREAT STEAMBOAT!!!
At goldenmile complex. GO TRY! You'll totally regret man.
:)

Can't wait for AUGUST! When i'd FLY off to Bangkok, AGAIN.

Sigh. There's church camp today and i'm not there!! Must wait for like, another two years.

CRAP. xx( I wanna go for church camp. JUST WAIT!

Okay,

LOVE YA!
Thanks for reading. =)
Tata for now!

Till then, do i see you again...