China Travel Interview: Surfing Hainan Island – China Travel

www.chinatravel.net — Did you know that after hitting the Great Wall, you can hit a wall of killer waves on Hainan? Surfing Hainan's experts give us the lowdown. Harbin's Dahai Zhang and California's Brendan Sheridan met in 2007 while surfing one of the world's last easy-to-reach tropical surf spots where you surfers aren't competing for limited waves. In fact, Hainan's beaches were virtually devoid of surfers when the duo founded Surfing Hainan not long after meeting on the island.

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