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

Let the Wind Blow

For this day, we spent the morning at the beach. In the afternoon, we went to Yalong Bay International Rose Valley to look at all the flowers. Here are the pictures.

Yalong Bay Beach

The wind was blowing on the beach

It was still quite warm despite the wind

Posing on the beach

Yalong Bay International Rose Valley

Franch Perfume

Sunflower

Lots of Flowers

Flowers and mountains

Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs

Uh Oh, Prince Charming

Walking through the Roses

Flowers up close.

Me on the path

Sunset

Forest for the Trees

For the majority of the time on Hainan, we stayed at a place that was within walking distance of Yalong Bay which is east of Sanya. We spent one of our days at Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park. This was also in walking distance of the placed we stayed or where we lived as they say in China. The park itself is beautiful, but it is a bit too touristy. I still enjoyed the day there as the scenery was beautiful.

The first view above the trees

Crossing the rope suspension bridge

On the suspension bridge

Looking back the the suspension bridge.

Swimming pool on the mountain.  It may be for lodgers on the mountain.

The glass bridge

The Glass platform and Yalong Bay

Enjoying the view on the glass.

Giant Buddha Stone

Looking down

Looking out at Yalong Bay

Yalong Bay - The place where we lived is in the bottom right corner of this picture.

The glass bridge and lots of people

Looking back at the glass bridge and the Giant Buddha Stone

The Dragon

Sangtian Watescape & Canghai Tower

Land of the Sea and Sun

The second place we visited on the island of Hainan was Guanyin of Nanshan which is about 25 miles west of the center of Sanya City. Guanyin of Nanshan is a Buddhist statue that was finished in 2005. It took six years to build. The statue is 354 feet tall. It is a statue of the bodhisattva Guanyin. The statue has three faces. One of the faces looks inland while the other two face the South China Sea.

A peacock

Some monks

Temple door god - Buddha's warrior attendant

Holding the statue of Guanyin of Nanshan

Guanyin of Nanshan

Guanyin of Nanshan

Windy underneath the statue

Underneath the statue

The beads side of Guanyin of Nanshan

Looking at the coastline with temples on it from Guanyin of Nanshan

Guanyin of Nanshan

A hand