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The Culture in Sanya
The Three Greatest Seaside Holiday Resorts
Crowned as "Hawaii of the East", Sanya boasts the most beautiful seaside scenery in Hainan Island.
Here, there are such excellent seashores as the world-famous No.1 bay
Yalong Bay, Dadonghai and Sanya Bay. Their shared features are the blue seawater, silver sands, mild waves and tender breeze.
Surrounded by green mountains on three sides, Yalong Bay is blessed with soft silver sands. Its visibility of seawater can be as far as 7-9 meters. As the best seaside in Sanya, Yanglong Bay is the place where a myriad of luxurious hotels scatter around.
Famous for its plain sands and warm seawater, Dadonghai is a renowned resort for winter swimming. It's close to the downtown area and its entertaining activities are reasonably priced with good services.
Sanya Bay is the place where you can take a stroll along the coconut trees corridor and enjoy what the glow of sunset has to offer.
Sunshine, seawater and beach all contribute to the exceptionally beautiful tropical scenery of Sanya, giving rise to a place where people can totally relax themselves both mentally and physically.
Sanya boasts the most beautiful seascape that any other place can never compare to. A place with beaches and coconut trees is the most romantic holiday resort for most of the lovers. Such scenic spots as "Luhuitou" and "the End of the Earth", to some extent, make Sanya rich in the meanings of love. Many local wedding photo studios come out with a series of beach wedding photos one after another. A number of lovers combine taking wedding photos and having their beach vacations together, bringing on the boom of wedding tourism in Sanya.
The Land of Seafood
Sanya is not only a famous tourist city, but also a renowned fishery harbor. When it comes to traveling in Sanya, a thing that's of paramount importance is to taste the seafood. In Sanya, the seafood in restaurants are cooked the instant they are fished up. So they are all fresh.
Sea cucumber and abalone are the specialties of Sanya and they are also superb seafood, so you should definitely give them a shot. Abalone is a kind of shellfish that welcomes its idiophase in July and August. In this period, the abalones are all meaty, so it's the best time for you to enjoy what abalone has to offer. Blue crabs, small clams, oysters and lobsters are rare delicacies. It's impossible for you to taste all the seafood, but such fish as steamed sea bass and eels that are tender in meat and delicate in flavor, such shrimps as Metapenaeus ensis, prawns and lobsters as well as such shells as scallops, trumpet shells and scissor shells are amongst the list of must-taste.