I'm a little late posting this. In October, for the Chinese "Moon Festival" holiday, we escaped from Shanghai and flew to the island of Hainan off the southern coast of China in the South China Sea.
We had one sunny day and it was beautiful. The Chinese call Hainan "the Hawaii of China." Not sure I'd go THAT far, but it certainly was nice at the Marriott resort where we stayed. Outside the resort, from what we saw, had a little more to be desired. Not sure we will make a visit back. It was fine, but there are many more beautiful places to explore on this side of the world.
Unfortunately, it poured rain every day except the first day. The rain was so bad that we actually ended up cutting our losses and leaving a day early. And it's a good thing that we did! Check out the photos below to see why!
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| This was the view from our room. The first day was beautiful! |
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| It all went downhill from there. Tyler was trying to will away the rain. |
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| The boys still went swimming every day in the pool... in the rain. |
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| Since there wasn't much to do, we ate a lot at the buffets every day... as the rain came down... |
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| I drank a lot of Mango Mojitos (my favorite!)... in the rain. |
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| We spent a lot of time in the lobby! |
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| We left Sanya a day early because of the rain and this is what we found when we left the resort on the airport shuttle van! Did I mention it rained alot? |
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| To be honest, Matt and I were quite nervous driving in this, but we made it to the airport and the plane took off. We were quite relieved to leave Sanya! In the U.S., this would have been declared a state of emergency and National Guard would have been summoned. But we're not in Kansas anymore. When we got back to our home in China, the news reported that these were the worst rains that Hainan and Vietnam had seen in 50 years! |
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