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Events
Travel news
2026-07-16
Boat evenings around Hainan
The former site describes a Hainan boat ride as a moving viewpoint: sea wind, moonlight, and open water, away from a pac…
2026-07-16
Tea hills that look like a green forest
Inland Hainan has tea terraces the former site calls a matcha-green forest: hillside rows and a herbal wind, without a p…
Seasonal
2026-08-11
Lingshui during the 2026 Joy Festival
The 27th Hainan International Tourism Island Joy Festival was already open when this note was published, and it points r…
2026-08-10
A summer day in Wuzhishan
The note sends a hot-season visit into the rainforest at Wuzhishan, for cooler air, a river run, and a short highland st…
2026-08-10
Haino Jurassic Park adds a cooling mist
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park reworked Haino Jurassic Park with a mist system, so a summer visit mixes shade, dinosaur m…
Trip notes
Three cool days in Wuzhishan
In early July, during a week the writer calls one of the hottest, they spent three days in Wuzhishan as a highland break…
A visit to a Li village
The Li are described as Hainan’s earliest inhabitants, living mainly in Lingshui, Baoting, Qiongzhong and Wuzhishan, wit…
Four days for a couple: Haikou and Sanya
A repeat visitor’s plan covering Haikou and Sanya in four days and three nights, including food and shopping. Byline on …
Packing a meal and going to watch the moon meet the sea
A four-day trip through Wenchang and Qionghai. The writer says travel used to be a way to forget a pale routine, and is …
A 15-day loop away from the cold
A counterclockwise circuit for people leaving a cold north: Haikou, Danzhou, Dongfang, Sanya, Wanning, Qionghai, Wenchan…
East-coast Hainan, mountains on one side and the sea on the other
The writer flew south, stepped into heat in Sanya, then left the crowded beaches to follow the east coast for scenery an…