Everything started by hanging out with a girl from England (whom I’ve met in a hostel) who was celebrating her Birthday in Sanya. During all day I even had no time to eat normally! So all day just street food. For dinner I had kind of a kebab – arepa. It was delicious though! Inside with noodles, egg and vegetables.
While I was exploring Sanya streets, I have almost got arrested! Just because I wanted to take a picture of the alley which was filled with military guys dressed in white. It looked nice all street full of militants. I figured it would look nice white uniform with green palms. I walked a little bit away, not to be too intrusive, but I guess deep inside I knew that I shouldn’t’ do that. So I took the camera and was about to take a picture and one of them saw it. He ran to me shouting and saying something and trying to grab my camera. I was telling him that I just wanted to take a picture of alley! He told me that I am not allowed to take pictures here! He went away… pffff… I was really scared! He could have broken my camera or taken it away or even arrested me! Later on several busses full of militants have passed. Must be high rank militants. Must be that’s why I was not allowed to take pictures.
I just got cold sweat from fear and outside is so already hot!
After that I went to the post office, which took me some time to find as it was hiding behind the palm trees.
I wanted to make a small surprise for Polly, so I ran off to bakery to buy a small cake. We even lit couple of candles! She was so happy! It was a real surprise!
Later on we have played a drinking game. There was girls from Ukraine, Russia, Netherlands, England in the crowd, so the crowd has gathered quickly to the table outside of the hostel. We played and played and drank and drank more, until you really need to go to the WC, but to go to the loo you need to get card of 8. I was lucky couple times, because was given the card twice by other people. Later on, two guys from Belgium and Netherlands joined our game. Anyway, there was many people around the table and the alcohol ran out too quickly. We were drinking Banja (Chinese vodka), Lithuanian vodka and local beer. One task of the game was to spit the content of the mouth the mouth of Polly. I drank for a second and she was like “No, swallow it was too long in your mouth”. So I had to brush my teeth, drink and immediately spit in her mouth…. it was a bit disgusting…
After drinks were finished went for a swim to the sea in the dark. I really enjoyed jumping through the waves. There was a moon in the sky and stars and it seems like Jupiter! Beautiful! In the end, English and Swedish guys said let’s go swimming naked. Oh well, I undress and jumped in the water. It felt so liberating swimming in the moonlight in the Chinese sea. I am starting to like Sanya!
We came back to hostel after the swim and I realised that I lost my swimwear. I had to go back to the beach to get them. I couldn’t find them. I got really upset and was getting back home, but suddenly I saw something near the street food table. Then I remembered that I was looking what to buy to eat, because I was so hungry so I must lost them there. I got back and the party crowd disappeared. One Belgian guy convinced me to go to the club. First one was closed, another one was too far and we wanted to eat (again!). We decided to take a taxi (~5 RMB) and go to McDonald! Across all town! Well it is kind of the only reliable place at night, where you know you will not have food poisoning at night. The Big Mac was amazing! After we ate we lost all energy to go to the club. We need a taxi back. One motorcycle taxi stops with sidecar. That’s taxi! The guy explained her how to go to hostel and she said Okey I know. I even gave hostel business card. Somehow my intuition was telling me that she cannot read. It turns out I was right. She was taking us to the opposite direction! I was quite drunk so I really didn’t care, but still I remembered that it was the wrong way. She stopped to ask local people. We also asked where to go. Finally, we were going in very long alley, which was really beautiful and I really didn’t care anymore where I am going and was gazing to the stars and sky, the Moon. The wind was blowing into my face. So relaxing. Feels like flying.
Finally we got back to hostel. She wanted to charge as 30 RMB, which was a lot! We bargained down to 20 RMB angrily as she got us lost. Just got into my bed and felt asleep. In the morning the housekeeper woke me up. So annoying and I had a big day ahead of travelling to a Nashan temple.