We made it to Hainan and back, and in the end everything actually went way better than expected!
We had bought the train tickets all the way to Sanya already in Zhangjiajie, and we realized a bit too late that we would only have about forty minutes to change the train AND station in Haikou even if the train arrived as scheduled. In China you can make changes and even cancel your train tickets for a small fee, but only at the station where you have purchased the tickets or at the station from which the train leaves. Our train arrived a bit late in Haikou, which is very typical for China, and we right away knew that we weren't going to make it to our next train. Luckily some local fellow at the Haikou railway station was really helpful and basically forced the cashier to change our tickets to better ones :).
In the end we made it to the sunny beaches of Sanya, and I guess thanks to off-season the beaches were pretty much empty. We had very relaxing four days there, and now we are in Nanning, on our way towards Kunming, Chengdu and finally the mountains in western Sichuan :).
Relaxing in the Chinese Hawaii
We even had time to build a sand castle!
The biggest jellyfish in the world?
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