Hainan Travel Guide
The end of the sky, the corner of the sea, and the vastness of the road. Sanya attracts countless Chinese and foreign tourists with its wonders of mountains and seas, sunny beaches and coconut breeze. Playing by the sea, living by the sea and eating seafood fully demonstrate the characteristics of this seaside tourist city. The wide white sandy beach, clear blue water and colorful underwater world make Sanya the best place for sunbathing, diving, windsurfing and beach sports.
Friendly reminder: Prepare items:
1. Skin care products (sunscreen lotion with SPF30 or above; after-sun lotion; moisturizing spray; hydrating and whitening mask); 2. Swimwear; change of clothes; Change underwear (prepare a few more sets, so that the area is not easy to dry);
3. Shampoo; conditioner (essential, sea water damages hair, and the ones provided by the hotel are too inferior);
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1. Taxi. There are many taxis in Sanya and they are very convenient. You can go anywhere in the central city without checking for 5 yuan, but the price of attractions must be discussed with the driver. Generally speaking, the price from the urban area to Sanya Bay is 25 yuan, Dadonghai is 10 yuan, and Yalong Bay is 50 yuan. You must negotiate the price with the driver in advance.
2. Buses There are three main bus lines in Sanya, namely No. 2, No. 4 and the bus line to Yalong Bay. The ticket price for No. 2 and No. 4 is 2 yuan, and the ticket price for Yalong Bay is 5 yuan.
3. Three-wheeled and two-wheeled motorcycles There are many privately operated three-wheeled and two-wheeled motorcycles in Sanya. If the transportation bureau or traffic police investigate, they will run around regardless of the safety of passengers, or even leave them alone. It is recommended not to take it. Moreover, three-wheeled motor vehicles are not allowed in Sanya city now. Tourists should not ask for three-wheeled motor vehicles when entering the city.
4. Rent a car If you want to live comfortably in Sanya, you can rent a car. Hotels in Sanya generally provide car rental services. There is a price list in the lobby for reference. In addition, there are many companies that provide car rental services. After understanding the qualifications of these companies, you can compare the prices before making a decision. Renting a car requires a deposit of 5,000 yuan, as well as an ID card, return ticket, and driver's license. All roads, including motorways, are free and there are no road maintenance fees for cars, which is reflected in the cost of petrol.
5. Rent a car. If you don't want to take a taxi, you can charter a car from a travel agency. Take, for example, a car that can seat four people. 200 yuan per day during off-season. The car is very clean and the driver is of high quality. You can ask to go anywhere and it will generally be met. Remember the driver should be responsible for the meal. I would like to remind you that during the tourist season, the rent will increase by 50%-100%. Note: If you stay in a hotel in Yalong Bay, the hotel usually has several fixed free shuttles to the city every day.
Living in Sanya
1. Donghai Yintai Hotel: Advantages: A newly built quasi-five-star hotel that feels small, exquisite and fashionable. The room is white and green, refreshing and pleasant. It is recommended to stay in a double bed room. The mattress was incredibly comfortable. The breakfast is rich, the dining location is comfortable, and the breakfast is included in the room rate. There are few people in the swimming pool at night. Eating is convenient (you can walk to the Coconut Grove Restaurant in the eastern suburbs). The price is right.
Disadvantages: The bathroom is small and dark, and the shower water is not big enough. All rooms have no terrace, only large floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sea view is not enjoyable. At night the beach is dark with very little light and the swimming pool is small.
2. Dadonghai Lijingwan Hotel: Advantages: A newly built four-star hotel, the lobby directly faces the sea, and has a Southeast Asian style. The color of the room is white, and the floor tiles are laid instead of carpets, which is very fresh and pleasant. Breakfast has many choices. Recommended Chinese morning tea. You can eat on the beach (but there is no air conditioning, I don’t know if you can adapt). The price is right. Regent's nightclub is very famous. Disadvantages: Some floors are often renovated, so ask before going. Otherwise, it would be too noisy and I wouldn’t be able to sleep. The beach is not clean enough.
3. Dadonghai Zhujiang Garden Hotel: Advantages: It is listed as a four-star hotel and the service is in place. A special access to the sea leads to the beach. It has its own beach, which is very lively
4. Holiday Inn Yalong Bay: Advantages: five-star hotel. The soft and hard facilities are very good, and the bathroom includes a shower room and bathtub. The terrace is very large, so choose the rooms on the 5th, 6th and 7th floors of the Deluxe Ocean Room. They all have sea views, which is really eye-catching! Watching the stars on the terrace at night is also delicious. The hotel has its own beach with fine, white sand. Tandem bicycles can be rented. Disadvantages: more expensive. Breakfast is 108 yuan/person. There are few restaurants around, but eating in the hotel is more expensive. The beach is very noisy.
Eating in Sanya
1. Eat seafood The ferocity of seafood in Sanya is beyond your imagination. It's definitely not the kind of "seafood" you eat in the mainland that is flown in and then frozen and thawed. Therefore, it would be a waste to come to Hainan and not go to Sanya to eat seafood. To eat seafood, you don’t have to go to a hotel. What you pay attention to is the environment and mood of eating seafood. It is very pleasant to see the scenery at the seaside. Most of the seafood in Sanya is freshly fished out of the sea in the morning. It is natural, strange, rich, fresh and original. The most famous “Three Treasures of Yazhou” are shark’s fin, plum blossom ginseng and abalone. In addition, lobster, sea urchin, shark, eel, sea snake, sea carp, prawn, rich shrimp, crab, flower crab, grouper, beauty snail, pearl snail, red fish, mackerel, squid, squid, sandworm, unicorn The dishes and various conches and seashells will open your eyes.
The seafood in Sanya is a mixed bag, and the prices are confusing. The following are particularly recommended: *Crystal Palace (east of Dadonghai)*Dadonghai Seafood Plaza (east of Dadonghai)*Red Coral (east of Dadonghai)*Red sand fish steak (especially recommended yellow and old three fish steak, served with crab porridge, There are many varieties, self-service 50 yuan/person) *Chunyuan Seafood Plaza (next to Hexi Road City Park) food stalls are the main form of exposure in Hainan. The coastal dining street, Chunyuan Seafood City, is where you can sit under the pavilion and eat hot pot at night, looking at the fishing fires in the bay across the street. Interesting and affordable, a family of three can eat enough for 100 yuan.
2. Hainanese cuisine - Haiya Restaurant, next to Jiayuan Commercial Building, Hexi Road - Guoli Restaurant, next to the Fire Squadron - Longquan Wenchang Chicken Restaurant, first floor of the Port Authority
3. Other dishes - Harbor Restaurant (Cantonese Cuisine) Xinfeng Road - Red Sun Restaurant (Hunan Cuisine) Sanyawan Road, next to the International Pier - Dongbei Wang Dadonghai - Yingbin Road, A'Barbaodi - Opposite the City Park, West Road, Wild Boar Forest.
4. Barbecue stalls. There are many barbecue stalls on the streets of Sanya at night. They use squid, conch and other seafood as raw materials, highlighting seafood. They are mainly concentrated in the Chinatown Plaza on Xinfeng Road. In addition, there are also Brazilian beer barbecue at Regency Hotel (ends before 12 o'clock), Pearl Seaview Hotel's beer barbecue garden (ends at 10 p.m.), Yuechuan Bridge Chinese Garden (ends at 1 p.m.) and late night snacks at South China Hotel. Beer by the sea.
5. Tropical Fruits Sanya is one of the largest tropical fruit planting bases in Asia. The fruits here are cheap and good. There are many fruit stalls on the streets, and fruits at farmers’ markets are relatively cheap. There are: mango, banana, coconut, papaya, rambutan, four-season watermelon, dragon fruit, peach, avocado, sour beans, mangosteen, orange, etc.
Swimming in Sanya
1. Yalong Bay (ticket 40 yuan/ticket): Beautiful beach. The sand is good, but a bit exposed. I won’t go to the Butterfly Exhibition Hall.
2. Nanshan Temple: When you enter, you will see a queue to take the tour bus. It’s 15 yuan per seat. You can get on and off the bus as you like, but you must sit properly, and it’s a long way to go. Bring a parasol, the surrounding environment is very good and worth a visit. Lunch at Nanshan Scenic Area: Take a tour bus to Yuan Qi Building to eat vegetarian food. Remember not to eat the 38 yuan/person buffet. You have to go to the place where you order (there is a dedicated area). You can order "Plum Braised Pork" and "Nanshan Three Treasures". fine. You can go see Guanyin, the whole body is made of jewelry, but you have to buy another ticket, which is 25 yuan per person. There are commemorative magnetic cards that can be taken away as souvenirs or used as amulets. Burning incense is more expensive. You can choose the "Family Portrait" for 99 yuan/ba (three branches). These three branches are incredibly large. Note: It is okay to take pictures in the temple, but it is forbidden to take pictures with Buddha or Guanyin because "people and Buddha are different". Spent most of the day playing. In the afternoon you can swim in the hotel swimming pool or play on the beach.
3. Wu Zhizhou: You can carpool. After arriving at the pier, you can take a boat to the island. Bring a bath towel (for the hotel) and a swimsuit. The water is very clear and deep. You can play "boat diving" (about 480 yuan/person); "banana boat" (about 150 yuan/person), etc. "Banana Boat" is a threesome. You need to wear a bathing suit otherwise you will get soaked and thrown into the ocean. But it's safe, someone will save you, it feels like the Titanic. There are battery cars on the island. Can travel around, four people in one. I will pass by a "Mazu Temple" where there are two senior visa cancellation technicians, but the cost of burning incense is very expensive, about 588 yuan/set. You can choose to be cheap or not, because believe it or not.
4. Tianya Haijiao: about 65 yuan/person. There is a battery car after entering, which seems to be 10 yuan/person. It is also convenient to get on and off at any time. It is recommended to take the bus, otherwise you will see the same scenery after walking for a long time. Taking a boat is time-consuming and expensive, but you can rely on interest. There are some food stalls opposite Tianya Stone where you can sit down and take a rest. You can eat a famous local fish, which is delicious grilled. It would be better if you add something spicy (10 yuan/piece). Another can of ice Coke is simply the highest enjoyment. The weather will be very hot, be careful of heat stroke! It only takes two hours.
Purchase in Sanya
1. Shell crafts: colorful tiger shells, luminous shells, five-clawed snails, horseshoe snails that can be used as ashtrays, and large-horned snails that can be used as horns are all very popular. Distinctive handicrafts. You can buy it next to Yalong Bay Shell Museum, Jiefang 2nd Road Commercial Street and DC Bus Terminal. Children from the ends of the earth are for sale at the lowest prices. You can usually buy a lot for 10 yuan.
2. Dried seafood: The Honggang Market located at the Fishery Terminal has dried fish, dried squid, sea cucumbers, dried sea snakes, shark fins, abalone and other seafood products. The quality of dried squid is better than other coastal cities, and the meat is delicate.
3. Seawater pearls: Produced in Sanya City and Lingshui County, they are mainly mother-of-pearl from the white butterfly unique to the South China Sea. Hainan pearls are large and of high quality, with the largest pearl having a diameter of 15T5 and a height of 19mm. Pearl necklaces, earrings, chest ornaments, and pearl powder are all popular souvenirs in Hainan.
4. Tropical fruits: star fruit, papaya, mango, jackfruit, rambutan and dragon fruit. These tropical fruits can be purchased at the No. 1 Farmers Market on Hongqi Street and the Honggang Market on Shengli Road.
5. Crystal products: Crystals produced in Hainan have excellent quality, high purity and good smoothness. The crystal coffin in Mao Zedong Memorial Hall is made of Hainan crystal.
Hainan has introduced advanced processing equipment from abroad to process high-quality rock crystals into various necklaces, bracelets, chest ornaments, earrings, etc. They are crystal clear and exquisite, adding beauty and health benefits, and are deeply loved by tourists at home and abroad. favorite.
Sanya Photos:
Sanya Dadonghai
Sanya Tianya Haijiao Stone Statue
West Island
Sanya Tianya Haijiao
p>Butterfly Valley in Yalong Bay, Sanya
Big and small caves in Sanya
Wuzhizhou
Sanya Luhuitou Style Garden