Friday, May 10, 2019

Sunrise, Sunset

Rather than end my China trip posts from February with the Monkey Island pictures, I am going to end it with pictures from one of the most relaxing days I spent on Hainan. We got up for sunrise. We went for a boat ride. At the end of the day, we watched sunset. Here are the pictures from this simple day.
Sunrise at Yalong Bay
Sunrise at Yalong Bay
Sunrise at Yalong Bay
Sunrise at Yalong Bay
Enjoying the morning
Looking up at the dragon on top of the mountain.  (Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park)
Boat ride
Out on Yalong Bay
Out on Yalong Bay
Someone jumping our wake
We went out to a reef.  The boat had a glass bottom.
Playing around while waiting on sunset
Hi
Sunset
Peeking at the camera
Sunset

Sunday, May 05, 2019

The Curse of Monkey Island

Near the end of my trip to Hainan in China this past February, we took a tour bus to Monkey Island and Sanya Li and Miao Village. The first stop on the tour was Monkey Island. You take a cable car into the monkey reserve. The reserve has approximately 2,000 macaque monkeys. A lot of them are free to run around, but they do have shows using trained monkeys. The monkeys in the shows didn’t seem very happy. The monkeys that were free were happy. Imagine that.
View of a Fishing Village from a cable car that took us to Monkey Island
View from the Cable Car
Mama monkey her kid
The King Monkey
A couple of little ones
Watching the monkeys
A monkey getting a massage
Keeping an eye on each other
Monkey on a sign
On a ferry at the fishing village
After Monkey Island, the tour moved to Sanya Li and Miao Village. The Village was a culture center that showed off past island traditions. I was coming down with a cold that day was beginning to feel bad at the Village. Fortunately, it was last day of playing tourist.
A statue
Watching and listening to singers
Listening to the tour guide. (I have no idea what was being said)
Sanya Li and Miao Village
Teapot?
me
Watching someone hand-making something