the holiday was quite alrite...
but it was a good time to relax, slow things down and spend bonding time w my frens.
first thing we noticed was how cooling hainan was upon arrival at the airport.
and tho it looked like it was threatening to rain, it never did.
after a couple of days, we realized dat the sun shines from abt 10am-3pm.
after 3pm, the clouds start to come in and it looks like the sun is preparing to set.
we started our holiday on the 2nd day with a trip to
万泉河 for a river drifting adventure.
had thought dat it was some river rafting thingy like u see on tv.
so din bring my camera along. but it turned out to b a not so scary ride.
and there were v nice views of the mountains.
but the travelling to and from the place was horrid.
it was a terrible, bumpy, boring 4hr drive to the destination and another 3.5hrs
back to the hotel. dat was the killer.
so much so we din wana go out v far the next day.
so we all juz chilled at the beach dat was juz rite outside the hotel.
being the suaku dat i am coz i've not travelled much,
it was quite a sight to see nice big waves crashing in towards the beach.
so spent almost the whole afternoon, lounging in the sun,
and swimming over the waves.
den we all went to the town area to have dinner at kfc... hehe...
for some of us, at dat point in time, it was the best meal of the holiday...
coz the food somehow din go down well w them...
after dat, it was juz walking ard to see if there's anything worth shopping for.
it turned out dat the local teas are really nice.
so the last day was spent trying more tea and buying tea.
and dat was also the day john and mark found this really nice place for dinner.
it is a little more upper class than most of the eateries ard.
but all u needed was to be decently properly dressed.
i.e. covered shoes and collared tees at least.
so 4 of us went there for dinner - mark, john, ivan and i.
it was like a western food coffee house kinda place.
food was quite good. and we ordered like quite a lot...
and in the end, we only paid like RMB80 each, including tips.
and service was quite good too.
and sometimes when we couldn't express wat we wanted to say in chinese properly,
but the staff could understand us still, you can see dat the staff were trying to
suppress their laughter.
but it was a good meal nonetheless.
slept for like abt 30mins, den it was e long trip back home.
4 hrs on the bus and another 4 hrs on the plane.
poor mark didn't get to eat his hainanese chicken rice while over there.
he ordered it for dinner at the coffee place.
but somehow the order was missed and by the time we realized
dat the order was missed, we were all too full to eat anymore so we cancelled it.
den we found dat there was chicken rice at the airport, thinking dat we might b able to eat it after we checked in, we checked in first.
only to discover dat we cant get to the chicken rice place.
so the first thing we did when we reached singapore?
go to t2 foodcourt and have chicken rice...
actually we wanted to go to soup kitchen but they were closed.
so ends my simple holiday in hainan.
next holiday: diving and holidaying at koh samui.
*slurp*
p.s. fotos of the holiday can b found here.
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