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We have been in the province of Hainan now for three days and have managed to do quite a lot. We actually left Hong Kong four days ago and it took us around 24 hours to get to the very south of this province which is the island off of the south coast of china. We left Hong Kong at about 12 noon on monday and got a bus to Hung Hom train station, where we caught a train to Guangzhou in the Guangdong province of China. From there we got on a bus to Haikou on the island on Hainan not realising that in China drivers are complete maniacs and they honk their horn at any and every opportunity. we didnt sleep very well at all and although we were given a free meal at a service station we were beginning to w3onder if we had don the right thing getting a bus! As part of the journey we had to go over to the island on a ferry and obviously we had to get off of the coach and go on as foot passengers. On this ferry we befriended a Chinese man we called Jim and hae helped us no end by writing different place names in chinese for us. He worried us a lot as he said that Hainan was not all that special and that we were mad to go there and when we had had vey little sleep we just wnted to curl up in a ball on the floor and try to get home as quick as possible!! We persevered tho and anyway, there was no way that we could curl up in a ball on the floor coz a little boy was weeing and pooing all over it!!!! eventually we got to Haikou, the destination of our bus and from there we got straight on a bus to Sanya, with the help of Jim. To cut a very long story short, we arrived in Sanya, randomly found somewhere to stay, and have been lounging on the beach ever since!!! I seem to resemble a sunburnt lobster at the moment whilst Charlotte is getting ever browner (so unfair!) so I am covered up from head to toe to stop me burning anymore!! i swear i am gonna come home whiter than i left!! i shall fill you in properly on all of our sanya exploits when i get more time on the computer.
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