After you've had your fill of food, it's time to talk about the part of the meal that you want to eat.
Haikou and Sanya than, there is a very obvious flaw, is that the attractions are not very powerful, around the scenic spots can play not much. However, Haikou is pretty good for walking.
Here, I walk 10,000 steps a day almost every day, and I can stroll around such as duty-free stores, old streets, and seaside parks ......
Wanlv Park - Haikou's best coastal park for running
Haikou used to have three landmark parks: Haikou Wanlv Park, Binhai Park and Century Park . These three parks hold the memories of a generation of Haikou people.
It is said that many Haikou people over the age of 40 planted trees in Wanlv Park, while many Haikou people over the age of 50 reclaimed the sea for Century Park.
Later, the three parks were merged, and the area now forms the largest urban central park in Haikou.
The park has 6 kilometers of cycling paths, 3 kilometers of running paths, and 1.5 kilometers of strolling paths, and the landscape is great, covered in greenery from above.
The hotel I stayed at this time was right across the street from Wanlv Garden, so I went there in the afternoons and evenings when I was free.
There are particularly good running trails all the way along the coconut groves. The left and right sides of the trail also house a lot of fitness equipment for the public's daily use.
Haikou's city park really makes me envious. It is very humanized, all the way there are set up drinking water table, stroll tired can drink water in this rest.
The park has very many tropical landscape plants, because there are more trees and more birds. So there are also watering stations in the park specifically for pigeons.
Even in winter, there are people with children flying kites in the park.
The whole park gives a feeling of special warmth.
Sun Moon Plaza Sagittarius, Gemini Duty Free - The place to save the most (HUA) money (QIAN)
Suitable for walking time: 3 hours +
From the double twelve to the New Year's Eve, Haikou Duty Free is quite active. However, the duty free store in Haikou Sun Moon Plaza will have more selection of beauty products, while electronics and luxury goods, the categories are less complete (no iphone12).
On the duty-free store strategy, Danying students just posted a First time to Sanya shopping, do not know these simply blood loss, Haikou's actually similar.
Simply summarized, it is:
1) In the "Alipay" enter the health code to receive two 50 yuan threshold-free coupons.
2) Open the cdf Hainan Duty Free APP to register members and brush up on the activities of the online mall.
3) On-site discounts, if I go to the makeup this time most of the brands are one piece of 15% off, three pieces of 20% off , some products will be 50% -60% off the limited time special, like buy SKii is quite cost-effective.
4) In order to let everyone soak in the duty free store all day long, the mall also has limited time event discounts for each time slot. 9:00-12:00, 15:00-17:00, 19:00-21:00, there are some single product promotions.
The first day I went to have encountered Estee Lauder's small brown bottle eye cream, two bottles of 70% off the price, after the discount is almost the price of 440, with a 50 yuan coupon is 390.
5) Some of the wine is still cost-effective, because of triple points, points can be directly on the spot against the money used.
But since I wasn't specifically there to buy anything, I shopped very Buddhist, and just bought a few skincare products that I needed at the moment (actually still to spend the no threshold coupon).
Almost but 2 hours is enough for shopping.
Jilinglou Old Street - no destination, but instead found a lot of fun
Suitable for walking time: 5 hours +
The scenic area of Jilinglou Old Street, in fact, is quite large, and inside the whole of Hainan's largest Mazu Temple.
If you just follow the tour group to walk around in the snack street to see a glance, that stroll riding building will lose a lot of fun.
There are a lot of people who don't quite know how to walk around the Riding Mansions.
I can take my route to give you reference: the more interesting sections, concentrated in the Water Alley entrance, Zhongshan Road, Boai Road and so on.
The first place you can visit is Guoxin Shuyuan , a bookstore that serves books and coffee on the first floor, an art gallery on the second floor, and an outdoor tea room on the third floor.
To visit, go to the outdoor promenade on the third floor, which offers a panoramic view of the Riding Mansions from above.
Next, you can walk towards Daxing East Road from Guoxin Book Garden, and you will see a very interesting dad's teahouse: Dad's Tea on Ta Tie Street .
The teahouse is filled with almost all local senior citizens, and the TV is playing anti-Japanese dramas. I sat inside for a while, the store dad tea 4 yuan / cup, the store will also give you with a teapot, you can refill the cup. （
Pineapple buns are 3 dollars each, 7 dollars can sit all afternoon.
Then, you can walk along Shuixiangkou Street, all the way can also see all kinds of food stores (Chen Ji soup rice, Yao Ji old store), seafood stalls ...... if the stomach is big enough, you can eat all the way, all the way to walk.
These alleys, you can feel the daily life of Haikou people.
Finally, you can go to Dongmen Market to stroll around. The chili sauce in front of the market is basically 5-10 yuan a bottle according to the size of the market, and there is also a local people dip hot pot especially love to use mixed sauce.
Patty cakes wrapped in leaves cost 3 yuan each, and there are also sandwiches.
The front of the market is filled with stalls of dried seafood, while the back has stalls of vegetables, meat and seafood.
The prices I think are quite good. Medium-sized dried scallops were 90 yuan per catty, and cherry blossom shrimp were 25 yuan for a super-sized bag. I bought some for myself to take away.
The entrance to the store selling squid and dried fish slices is also delicious, the owner is very enthusiastic, will let us eat some before buying. Basically, a bag of shredded squid is almost 20 dollars.
No need to worry about foreign tourists will be ripped off, I feel that the locals are still relatively simple.
As long as there is enough time, I think you can really spend an afternoon in the building.
Nanda Night Market - Feel like going back to college days
Suitable for walking time: 2 hours
At night, it's a good idea to take a stroll through the Nanda Night Market.
Students who study in Hainan, especially like to come to the night market. It is a collection of flavorful snacks from various cities, and at night it is brightly lit with food trucks from one end to the other, almost 100 of them.
The boneless chicken fillet, Yangzhou fried rice, and spicy hot pot that you used to eat when you were a student can all be found here.
There are also quite a few Hainanese flavors in there too, such as dregs of vinegar, Hainanese vermicelli, and Qingzhengliang, so if you don't want to go from small store to small store, you can have them all at once at the night market.
I can't tell you how good the flavors are, but the variety is rich enough and the prices are good, so it's still fun to stroll around.
In the food truck, some fathers and sons work together. The father will be on hand to show his son how to do the barbecue, where seafood barbecue is cheap and oysters are particularly popular.
Outside the food truck, a lot of children are also sitting at the open-air table to eat, and in the evening, the place is still quite lively.
At the entrance to the night market there is also Hainan's first authentic ching chong liang and Deng Ji ching chong liang, so you can stop by and have one.
Finally, let's talk about living. Before the dishes to go to Haikou, live in the Ritz, that home in Mission Hills, relatively far from the city.
And this time in Haikou, I stayed at the first Langham in my life. It's the "pink temptation" that makes you feel so happy to see it.
As a city hotel, location is naturally the most important.
The Langham is in a great location! It's on the Esplanade, opposite the Wanlv Garden, so you can go for a walk at any time. And it's almost a ten-minute drive to the Cavalcade and Sun Moon Plaza.
When you enter the first floor, you will see a very dreamy Christmas tree and a gingerbread house made of pink castles.
The Langham in Haikou is one of the "fighters" among Langham fans, and it's worth checking out.
Check in is on the 43rd floor, the highest floor. The room was decorated with pink roses and a pink room card.
This sense of elegance is carried through in the details of the room.
The design will be elegant cream and gold as the main color of the room, which will also be matched with some art deco paintings, which makes you feel comfortable at first sight.
Even the mineral water bottles in the room are customized into pink, and when the mini Bar is opened, there is a layer of colorful tea bags and a layer of tea cups, which makes the room feel very elegant.
The experience of staying is also quite good. The bedding is Blissful Bed's Silent Night Sleeper, and there is a pillow selection list at the bedside, so you can choose different types of pillows, which is very humanized.
The bathroom is also equipped with a large bathtub, and the bath products are all "Chuan" series products developed by Langham Hotels.
There is nothing to criticize, and the view is good because of the high floor. We stayed on the 38th floor, and with the motorized curtains drawn, we could see the sea.
The public areas of the hotel, the Christmas atmosphere is also very strong. In addition to the giant Christmas tree and gingerbread house on the first floor, you can see the cute Langham Bear (who usually wears a She costume, but has just recently changed into a Christmas outfit) while having breakfast.
The elevator entrance on the 43rd floor also houses a small fireplace.
There's also quite a drinking vibe at the Langham, where the lounge is in vintage green with oversized display cabinets behind it.
If you happen to want to come to Haikou for the holidays (Christmas, New Year's), I kinda recommend staying at the Langham.
The hotel's meals, too, taste online. The breakfast buffet has a chef who specializes in making seafood noodles.
Another thing that makes you happier to eat breakfast in Hainan is the super rich tropical fruits! All kinds of congee and noodles you want to eat are available, as well as semi-self-service noodles, and customizable omelettes of various colors (optional double eggs, omelets, etc.).
If you like to stay at the hotel, the Cantonese restaurant Tang Court on the 6th floor of the hotel is also worth a swipe. It serves traditional Cantonese morning tea and Hainanese specialties.
It's naturally better than the neighborhood joints and doesn't taste bad.
However, the price of this Langham is relatively high in Haikou, if it is a calendar room single night price in 1000 +.
So if you're hoarding a lot of room vouchers, there are a few other hotel brands on the Esplanade, such as Sofitel, Hilton, Harbour Plaza and more.
It's probably a bit more cost-effective in terms of value for money, and it's also possible to get to the write-offs in a timely manner.
Summary
For the final part, a little summary.
If you have 48 hours, I think you can arrange the line like this:
DAY1: Genting Tea House - Sun Moon Plaza Duty Free - Niu Te Niu dregs of vinegar hot pot - the old street of Jiedulou
DAY2: Ten Thousand Greens - Coconut Edge Tea Plantation - Hainan Provincial Museum - the Nanda Night Market
When I left. Local friends told me that this year's Mango Channel New Year's Eve party will also be placed in Haikou!
And the Haikou Tourism Bureau is really in the New Year's Eve thing quite hard, prepared "cross the sea - cross the New Year's Eve long time no see Haikou see" more theme activities.
Part of the New Year's activities guide
Feeling to go to the New Year's here is also a good choice.
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