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Sunbathing with Chinese characteristics
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 3 February 2010
Want to spend time on the beach, but worried about darkening your pearly-white complexion? In Sanya, the whities showed no fear for the sun (which we eventually paid for dearly with awkward sunburns), but Chinese beachgoers were endlessly creative in finding ways to keep the sun off their skin. Here are a few of my [...]
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Tourist trapping
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 26 January 2010
Some describe Hainan as “China’s Hawaii”. A better description, in my opinion, is that this is “Russia’s Mallorca”. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing — it is very touristy, but comfortable hotels, a plethora of restaurants, a beautiful beach and lots of souvenir stalls makes for a very pleasant beach vacation. Every now and then [...]
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