Beaches etc

Hainan isn't just the place where I'm gonna make my first million. It's beautiful. Can you believe that other than the three pages in the Lonely Planet and a few meagre web sites, there is no tourist information in English for this place?

Check out the beaches:



The cute chick is my friend Addie who came to visit from the states. We took four days and drove around the island to check it out.

We hired a guy to take us to this island in his fishing boat. It turned out to have a military installation on it so we decided not to set foot on land... but the guy taught me my first sentence ever in Hainanese .... "I don't know how to fish!"

Better place to live than Buckingham Palace


Check out that emerald green forest..

Soaring mountain peaks...

Tranquil lakes

Lush green rice paddies

This waterfall we found by wandering at random down a mountain track for four hours. We ran into some folk gathering pine oil and got invited in for a cup of green tea. We were the first tourists they'd seen that year (it was already late February, at the end of the high season) and the first ever non-chinese. The water was kind of chilly but I'll be back here in summer for a dip, gorgeous! The locals told us it according to fable three "fairies" (dunno how to translate this, maybe "female immortal", "Siren"?) lived there and anyone who swims in the pool gets more and more beautiful by the day. I feel pretty, O so pretty!!

And I ain't even started on the night-life yet....