Cats who teach me to fly…

Mel and I went to Hainan Dao last Thursday. She booked a room at Meritus Mandarin, which was at the business centre. The surroundings were quiet. There was little activity around there.

We had wenchang chicken for lunch. Mel said that our hainan chicken rice is so much better than their wenchang chicken. For me, their sauce is the same as our hainan chicken rice but the texture of the chicken was different. The wenchang chicken was hard to chew. It was not as smooth as what we had in Singapore. Mel and I simply laughed at ourselves with the way we ate.
Before we got back to the hotel, Mel was worried that she might not have breakfast on the next so she bought a loaf of bread and a piece of cake.

We went back to the hotel and rest. We also bought a ticket to Zhang Yimou live show which was called the “Impression Hainan Island”. The show plays in the evening.

We had dinner at 8pm which was before the show. I had a seafood hotplate rice and Mel has a fish hotplate. We were quite satisfied with the meals.

The show started at 8.30pm. I found the performances impressive and Mel loved it too. I especially liked the “coconut” performance where the dancers were all dressed up in green suit. I would recommend everyone to watch. We went straight to the hotel to rest and get ready for our Sanya trip on the next morning.

The trip was a two day one night tour to Sanya, which cost RMB360 per pax. It was pretty cheap. Converting it to S$, it was less than S$80. This was coupled with a night’s stay at a hotel and four meals. Yeah… sounds good!

We woke up at 5.30am on the next day. Our coach arrived at 7am. Happily we went up the bus and started our journey.

So where did we go? We visited the beach at Sanya, which is call “Dadonghai”.

It’s a nice beach. Just a little crowded. The weather was hot and humid. Mel and I hid ourselves at one of the nearby hotels and had a banana split. We also rode a speed boat to some rock formations known as “Tianya Haijiao”. They are just big rocks engraved with “天涯海角”. What we loved was the speed boat ride:).

We had dinner at the hotel and went back to our room to rest cos both of us were exhausted with the day trip. I slept at 9.30pm while poor Mel had to do some marking.

We woke up at 5.30am and got ourselves ready to visit 南海观音. It was so amazing to see such a hugh statue situated at such a perfect location.

I loved the surrounding. Too bad this place is built as a tourist attraction. Should it be built as a buddhist retreat, it would really help many of us fulfil our dream to become a buddhisattva or buddha:). I told Mel that I would love to come here again and live in the hotel nearby and do some meditation.

The photos on top are the surroundings.

The sad thing that Mel and I felt was that we have to pay in order to make a prayer as well as a wish. Mel and I did not pay to get in. We think it is not right for them to charge us. We prayed silently in our heart.

We had lunch and it was time to go back to Haikou. We had checked out from Meritus Mandarin and we had not found a hotel at that time. Mel is always a panicky type. For me, I believe as long as we have money, we can get any hotel anywhere.

Yes, we checked into a hotel which was so much cheaper than Meritus Mandarin and there were night market just outside the hotel. We were happy buying food from the stall and eating it.

On our last night in Hainan dao, Miemi visited me again. I knew she did.