We arrived at Sanya to an overcast sky but it was warm about 25degs. Sanya is a small city (its rapidly expanding) on the Island of Hainan south of China.

We have booked an excursion to the Hot Springs, by now we have seen enough schools, towns of life within the Far East for the time being so we though a little bit of extra fun doing some quality relaxation would be in order.

Getting through the terminal was fairly quick and efficient but the buses were a bit of a problem. Oh my were they small, for a tall westerner these really aren’t big enough at all and several people complained about it. We set off through the city out the other side and off to the hot springs. Apparently the city was nothing even as recent as 10 years ago, the expansion has been rapid to say the least, there are plenty of tall flats and by the looks of things this isn’t about to slow down. As we travel out of the city you see more engineering work this time in the form of a new train line that they are building for the island. The roads however aren’t that great and are fairly bumpy, surprising for such a recently constructed road.

Anyone onto the Hot Springs and as we were one of the last coaches to arrive they didn’t have a enough locker keys for everyone so many couples had to share, not great but we coped. We haven’t got any pictures of the springs really as we didn’t take a camera in. But if we had you would have seen my feet getting nibbled at by 20+ fish, a strange but ultimately rewarding experience as your feet come out super smooth, if you go you have to try it.

The rest of the pools were mostly the same but some stood out, how does a coffee pool sound or rose petals, that one smelt nice and seemed very decadent. The herb pool was weird and many were just very very hot so be careful they felt like they could scald. But one most certainly doesn’t as its chilled and was fffffffreeezzing but we still went it in.

On the way back we had 30/40 minutes time in a part of the city to have our first experience of China. As it was the last day of the Chinese New Year lots of fire crackers were going off that certainly livened the place up. The shops were strange to say the least with very little we wanted to buy but some people picked a few things up.