Located in the south part of China, it is an island that is supposed to resemble Hawaii. Like Hawaii, it has clear ocean water, shells, mountains, colorful shirts (and more) and lots of palm trees. Unlike Hawaii it has a lot of Russian tourists and lots cheap tour buses. Our first full day was beautiful and sunny but not too hot. We took advantage of the great weather and spent the day on the beach and in the huge hotel pool - both times carefully positioning ourselves under the big umbrellas. We still got sunburned, Cynthia got the worse – I had a good enough “base tan” from St Simons that I just got a little pink. For Zac’s information and anyone else that surfs – In Yulong Bay where we were staying there were no surfable waves and this was just days before a typhoon (their version of a hurricane) would be passing by.
One of the biggest differences between the USA and China is they do not cover the weather as thoroughly as we seem to do. We looked for information on many of the TV channels and still heard little about when or where it would hit. Weather seems to be American’s “small talk” where as the “small talk” for the Chinese seems to be centered around food.
