hainan

blog.chinatravel.net — Beneath the bourgeois society that is slowly making Sanya its "home away from home," toil the original settlers and cultivators of the land, the native Li minority.

They drive the Chinese tuk-tuks, they grill the seafood, they sell the smokes out of little corner shops and the alleys of downtown Sanya are filled with the multi-toned inflections of their Cantonese-influenced native speech.

ca.news.yahoo.com — Ports and oil terminals in Hong Kong and southern China shut down operations on Thursday, forcing tankers to anchor offshore to ride out one of the biggest typhoons to threaten the South China coast in years.

blog.waboba-asia.com — A colour piece about the Hainan property bubble and that sinking feeling you get when you realize you backed the wrong horse.

www.surfinghainanopen.com — This is the dedicated website for the Surfing Hainan Open, held last weekend. The event itself was a blast and the videos came out surprisingly well. It's a sop to anyone who thought Hainan was all about sweaty coach tours to the End of the Earth.

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.