day 297: [三亚 (sanya)] = 0km

This is a leaf from the rain forest:

This is a weird fruit from the rain forest:

And here’s a huge spider, also from the rain forest:

I think including its legs it was about as large as my hand (not just my palm!), but I didn’t go near to take a more exact measurement.

三亚 (sanya) is technically located in the tropical belt, so if one gets tired of swimming and bronzing on the beach all the time, there is a whole lot of amusement to be found in one of the parks playing on the rain forest theme:

The one we went to was called 呀诺达 (yanuoda), a large-scale eco-tourism attraction that has just recently opened its doors to the public.

I thought the place was cool. They had wild bananas:

And waterfalls:

Besides, most of the trails were quite fun to walk:

Maybe the reason why I liked it so much was because I had walked through so much desert during the last couple of months?

Well I don’t know, but the jungle was impressive anyhow:

…what is the downside to almost any good place though?

Right, after a while there are just too many people who know about it.

And here’s what happens then:

Yay, it’s our own little stampede!

Maybe the rain forest can take it though?

Or maybe she can’t…

…

There was a place called 槟榔谷 (binlanggu) nearby, and it was supposed to be like some kind of open-air museum about local folklore and minority traditions, so we went to check it out:

Well, it sucked.

One souvenir shop after the other, some sloppy kung fu shows and a couple of boring attractions like “the traditional li-wedding” that charged tenacious extra fees.

I didn’t even bother to take any pictures, except for the single most disgusting thing I saw:

This is an “attraction” where you can try to throw little bamboo spears at live fish that dwell in a little pond. They have no way of escaping, and the ones that have been hit are just being left in there. Surprisingly enough, the fish-massacre is one of the few things free of charge in this place.

Okay, there was one thing I found pretty enjoyable though:

This one dude could climb up trees really freakin’ fast!

Soundtrack: Geto Boys - “Fuck A War”

—total: 3555,1km