(There's room for a magazine title at the top, in case any health magazine wants to license this. :-) )
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(Her outfit, by the way, is the standard tourist garb here. (Yes, that's right... JUST LIKE HAWAII!)
The beaches do not get crowded here, mostly because the Chinese go out of their way NOT to get a tan. Perhaps they are concerned about looking too much like Pakistanis?
This was in an outdoor market at about 11:30 PM. I would guess that the booth is owned by a local dentist.
A "Barker" encouraging people to stop into the store on a busy street one night. Most attention-getting! Click on the picture or here to see a short video of this guy in action. (1.3 MB .mp4 movie)
Once we got out of the tourist spots, we ventured to the small towns who rarely ever see any white folks. We were flocked by many curious onlookers!
It is not all that unusual for a powered motorcycle to try to plow its way through a very crowded sidewalk. And although the driver was smiling, he was also bent on running me down.
(Click here or on the picture for a sound sample of what Sanya's main street sounded like. In fact this level of noise was actually pretty light. Downtown Sanya has large sound level displays which lets you know when the legal decibel limit has been exceeded.)
(Ambiguity intended.)
I remember in Sociology class we discussed how even the poorest people had television sets. Well, here in China, on more than one occasion I found families without TV's but with an expensive billiard table instead!
A new restaurant started by Singaporeans and Indonesians had invited me to play along with Helmy Andreas, who was their cook / technician / nightly musician one evening. Having grown up in Singapore, he knew many, many romantic English songs from the 70's, which means I only had to learn a handful of new songs. We sounded pretty good!
Later in the evening we accompanied the patrons who sang folk songs from America, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and of course China. It was a wonderful evening I will remember forever.
