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With all the Xmas cheer and Santa in the sun around Sanya it was about time to dress up with one off my all time favourite t-shirts and hit one of the swanky Yalong Bay 5-star hotels for a ritzy Xmas eve dinner.











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Great beach setting (Dadonghai) for a healthy boxing day breakfast with mates overlooking the East China Sea.....









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Dadonghai (Sanya City) has the islands new Can-Am dealership, quite impressive for Hainan Island.
Can-Am Spyder 3-wheel motorcycle, ATV, UTV, Side-by-Side | BRP Can-Am
Can-Am China (Sanya / Dadonghai shop) pictures attached, official distributor: www.smooth-marine.com.hk
ATV's shown in the pics go for around 180000 Chinese Yuan equals approx. 29310.66 US Dollar

















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After a couple of days business meetings and hanging out with mates in greater Sanya / Yalong Bay area made my way up north from Yalong Bay to Wuzhishan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuzhi_Shan passing by the tropical rainforest park called Yanoda: Yanoda Rainforest Tourism Zone of HaiNan
Skipped Yanoda Tropical Forest Park this time as I had to take overseas visitors twice to the park in 2012 and the two visits last me properly a life time, noticed quite a lot of real estate (villas / hotels) going up in the immediate area surrounding Yanoda Park.















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Good roads with very little traffic after Yanoda Tropical Forest Park leading up to the mountain range towards Wuzhishan, great scenery along the way.





















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Got a nasty surprise after paying the entrance fee 50RMB to Hainan Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve.... pictures say more than words and did not bother to look around any further and hit the road down the mountain direction Boao: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo'ao
Needless to say, quite sure this was my first and last visit to this particular nature reserve called Wuzhishan....... still, great winding roads going up though.











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The secondary roads down the mountain range to Boao from Wuzhishan varied from concrete to tarmac to gravel and water crossings, great riding....















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Overnight in a ocean view service apartment in a suburb of Boao and looks like the whole of Boao incl. most of the main the streets are under construction for another BFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boao_Forum_for_Asia
The snack bag packed before my Sanya departure helped a lot in the middle of nowhere in a huge flashy apartment complex with no restaurants / shops around just yet, bit foggy that morning with lower temperature compared to Sanya area but warmed up later on.













Had a smile on my face passing through Traffic Safety Village..... right - traffic safety in China......

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Stopped at a few road side shrines for good luck on the way from Boao to Wenchang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenchang













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Uneventful ride over to Wenchang from Boao and noticed a lot of seafood farms along the route.
Some sections of road undergoing cheap dangerous repairs as the road surface becomes very slippery with the hot tar and loose gravel.









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A visit to the Wenchang memorial park and Soong Ching Ling ancestral home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Ching-ling









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Cruising around Wenchang downtown district and stopping at some memorial with a bloke made out of bronze sitting on a big slab of marble...







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Confucius Temple in downtown Wenchang City of Hainan Province......
Biggest on the island apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Zhang#Zi-zhang



















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Making my way from Wenchang up to Hainan Islands capital city called Haikou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou











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On my way up to Haikou from Wenchang, passing through quite a few small villages and somehow they feel like 1800's western towns with single row houses on both sides, motorbikes look like horses of cowboys and the small police station is the sheriff's office and county jail..... might be all the infamous Sanya moonshine booze.....













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