I know I haven't written for a while, and that I've written other entries since I left of with my winter holiday, but I'm still going to finish writing blog entries for all the places I went that haven't been written yet.
So after a few days in Sanya, we headed up into the mountains a few hours away to Wuzhishan (pronounced Woojurshean). This was really nice. Sanya was awesome, but it was REALLY touristy. It's that way for a reason, good fruit, beautiful beaches, but sometimes it's nice to go back to normal China. So we took off into the mountains to this small town of Wuzhishan. There were some Chinese tourists, but we were the only white people we saw once we left Sanya. Wuzhishan was also where I got the cheapest bed of the trip. Our three bed room was 120 yuan which is about 17$ US. We stayed there for a two nights and it was awesome.
Wuzhishan means five finger mountain. The city is up in the central highlands of Hainan and the mountain is within an hour of the city. Just like the name, the mountain has five points are meant to represent the five most powerful gods in local lore. My students also tell me that this is where Sun Wukong lives. Sun Wukong is the from monkey king in Chinese mythology, I didn't see him...but, it was still a really cool area. It felt like a pretty normal chinese city except there were a lot of excellent parks and hikes close by.
Upon arriving we decided to take a bus ride to the local city of Shuiman (pronounced shwaymahn). This is the way to get to the five fingered mountain hike and this bus ride is supposed to be one of the most beautiful bus rides in all of China, and it totally was. There were a lot of waterfalls just on the side of the road and miles of lush green rice paddies. There weren't that many people there, but the one's we met were really nice and tried to feed us. Once we got to Shuiman we hiked out to the national park where the five finger mountain was, but after getting to the entrance and being told by the gaurds that the base of the hike was still a ways away and that there were no taxis for a long while, we started to hike back (we'd only been hiking for an hour). Luckily on the way back, some random chinese family picked us up and took us all the way back to out hotel. Chinese hospitality is legendary sometimes.
The pictures are as follows
1. Picture of me and Matt talking to some Chinese tourists.
2-3. Pictures around Wuzhishan4. This was on the road we hiked in Shuiman. It's a native who runs their own honey business. The yellow stuff on the ground is a sweet pollen type substance that you eat. It was pretty good.
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