Day 01: Entry Sanya
Summary:Our professional guide will pick you up at Sanya airport and transfer to the hotel. The rest day is free.
Day 02: Sanya
Summary:Visit the Miao Minority Village, the Ultima Thule and the Buddha Culture of Nanshan. (B+L)
MIAO MINORITY VILLAGE
As one of the most fascinating ethnic minorities in China, groups of Miao people are everywhere in southwest China, mostly in Guizhou Province. But, if you really want to experience the authentic ethnic cultures, go visit Langde Miao Ethnic Minority Village in Kaili. About 50 kilometers north of Kaili, it’s no doubt a beckoning tourist village.Miao Ethnic Minority is both mysterious and exciting. The Miao people are identified by their dialect, dress, location and other customes. In dress we have Long Skirt Miao, Short Skirt Miao, Black Miao, Flowery Miao and Long Horned Miao. By location there are River Miao and Mountain Miao. The villagers in Langde wear long skirts, hence they are “Long Skirt Miao”. The Miao style houses “Diaojiaolou” and its featured and creative festivals will cause you spell bound.Around 500 villagers in ten families, the Langde Miao Village is considered small. Members of the Miao Ethnic Minority, they adopt common habits and customes. Entering the village, visitors would find themselves literarily immersed in works of art.
BUDDHISM CULTURE OF NANSHAN
Located near the Nan Mountain, about 40 kilometers west of Sanya, the Nanshan Buddhism Culture Sightseeing Area has a planned area of 34.7 square kilometers for landscape and environmental protection. It is preferential development project of national tourism and a key development project of Hainan tourism, consisting of the Main Gate Scenic Spot and three gardens with special themes.The Garden of Buddhism, has opened a grand tropical garden situated by the sea and near the mountains, and built Buddhist culture sceneries including anshan Temple (the biggest temple ever in Mainland China in the recent 50 years, characterized with the lourishing Tang Dynasty), ��The One And Only Way��, ��Salvation Through Charity To Others��, the Garden of Good Luck and Happiness. It also has been planned that a Mother Budda Statue, 108 meters in height, will be built sticking up in the sea facing the temple. The Happiness and Longevity Garden has completed a series of scenery based on the relevant Chinese customs at different phases of one��s life. Before long the Garden of South Sea Customs will present the tourists a grand marine park, equipped with entertainment of maritime sports, marine sightseeing, performances of animals, the paradise of flowers and birds. The Main Gate Scenic Spot, centered on the Square of Happiness, provides the tourists with comprehensive services. All the construction finished, the whole place will become the most magnificent, attractive and characterized cultural sightseeing area in south China, mixed with its special natural landscape and cultural customs—traditional Chinese Buddhism, local customs, historical relics, and the tropical marine scenes.
Day 03: Sanya
Summary:The day is free. You may cruise on West Island and enjoy the sun shine at East Sea beach. (B)
Day 04: Sanya
Summary:The day is free at your own leisure. (B)
SANYA
Across the island from Haikou on Hainan’s central southern coast (320km direct down the expressway), Sanya is, sooner or later, the destination of every visitor to the island. Though relics at the westerly town of Yazhou prove that the area has been settled for close on a thousand years, Sanya city itself is entirely modern, maintained as a scruffy tourist center, fishing port and naval base for monitoring events (and staking China’s claims) in the South China Sea. What pulls in the crowds - including increasing numbers of Russian and Korean visitors - are the surrounding sights, especially easterly Dadonghai beach , one of the few places in China where you can unwind in public. The Chinese also flock to associated legendary landmarks atop the Luhuitou Peninsula and west at Tianya Haijiao , while foreigners generally find the day trip out to a couple of tiny inhabited coral islands off Dadonghai more interesting. Farther afield, the coastal arc between Sanya and the western industrial port of Dongfang sees few visitors. While Dongfang alone doesn’t really justify a trip, it’s emphatically worth getting as far as Jianfeng Ling , the most accessible surviving fragment of Hainan’s indigenous mountain rainforest. If this doesn’t appeal, there’s plenty of transport north from Sanya to the Li stronghold of Tongshi, and on into the central highlands.
Day 05: Sanya/ Haikou/ Exit
Summary:Take car to Haikou. You can overlook the Wanquan River and the Statues of Red Detachment of Women on the way. Tour ends. (B+L)
HAIKOU
The history of Haikou originates from Han Dynasty. In 110B.C. (the first year of Western Han Dynasty), General Lu Bode of Fubo conquered Baiyue, and set two prefectures-Zhuya and Zhan’er-and 16 counties in Hainan. Haikou was under Zhuyadaimao County. In Tang Dynasty, Haikou became a port of Qiongzhou, and it was the transportation hub to the mainland. In Song Dynasty, in order to consolidate the frontier, Haikoupu was established, hence the name. In 1858 (the eighth year of Emperor Xianfeng), Haikou was opened up to be a trading port, the name was changed into Qiongzhou kou. After that, the consulates of various countries were set up here gradually. In the early days of the People’s Republic of China, its name was changed to Haikou. It was liberated on 23, April 1950, and the People’s Government was founded on June 1, the same year. After liberation, Haikou was a city under the jurisdiction of the provincial government of Guangdong, and was the capital of Hainan administrative. In March 1983, it was declared to be an open city. In 1988, it became the capital city of Hainan Province.
