About Urumqi
Safety and Healthcare
Food Security
Seafood:
1. When you are enjoying seafood, you can drink a proper amount of wine and vinegar. However, you can't drink beer in that excessive urate will be produced as a result of an over intake of beer. Under this circumstance, chances are high that you'll suffer from gout.
2. No drinking cold beverage and watermelons and no swimming within the first hour after enjoying seafood.
3. Since seafood is high in protein, people who are allergic to protein can't eat too much.
Tropical Fruits:
1. You can't eat too much such tropical fruits as mango and pineapple in that you can easily develop an internal heat out of them.
2. You can't eat pineapples and star fruit with your stomach empty. The star fruit is a big no-no for the people who have diabetes in that it will make them at the risk of losing their lives.
3. When it comes to coconuts, there are green coconuts, yellow coconuts and red coconuts, among which the red coconuts are the best with the yellow following it. Coconuts that are picked at noon are the sweetest. When the clothes are stained by the juice of coconuts, they will suffer from color fading and it's very hard for you to wash them clean.
Outfit for Traveling
1. When it comes to packsack, the one of high ventilation property is the best for you. As for clothes, you'd better bring sweat-absorbent, well-ventilated and easily-dried ones but don't bring too many. You can wash them in the evening and they will dry the next day. If you come in winter, you'd better bring a coat though it's warm.
2. The ultraviolet radiation in Hainan Island is rather intense. So you should bring sunglasses, effective sun creams and umbrellas. Still, you should also prepare some medicines for sunstroke and intestinal tract diseases and anophelifuge for protecting you from mosquitoes.
3. You should also bring swimming suits, swimming caps and goggles.
Guidelines for Going Rafting
1. Before you set off, you'd better bring a set of clean clothes and a pair of plastic shoes for change.
2. If you wear glasses, you're supposed to tie your glasses with a rubber band in case your glasses would drop to the water when you're rafting.
3. You should leave your important and non-waterproof items (cameras, video cameras, cell phones and watches) on the bus or you can ask the staffs to take care of them. Don't bring them with you when you're rafting. When going rafting, you should try your best to sit firm and keep your balance. You're not allowed to take off your life vests. Catching the floaters in the water and picking the grasses and stones on the bank are strictly forbidden just in case you would turn over or fall off the raft.
4. When going rafting, you're not allowed to swim in the water. When the raft is passing through the shoals, you should stick your hands to the hand straps, keep the direction in your mind, lower your center-of-gravity and lean your body forward.
Guidelines for Enjoying Hot Springs
1. You should take off all your metal ornaments before you enjoy hot springs, otherwise the color of the ornaments would fade away under the wash of the minerals in the springs.
2. The time for enjoying hot springs should not be longer than 90 minutes.
3. You should take a rest out of the spring every 20 minutes, just to have some drink to replenish your body with water.
4. Don't have a massage when you're enjoying the hot springs.
5. Try your best not to use any bath lotion after enjoying the hot springs. Clean water is better for keeping the minerals on your skin.
Guidelines for Doing Marine Sports
1. You should do some warming-up before you swim in case of cramp. You are supposed to swim in the appointed safe areas. If you don't feel comfortable in the water, you should get of the water as soon as possible. After swimming, you are not supposed to have cold drinks, watermelons or seafood immediately.
2. You should take good care of your accompanied belongings. Don't lock your important items in the chests of drawers; instead, you should deposit them or ask somebody to take care of them for you. People with kids should take good care of their kids and don't leave them alone.
3. Travelers who want to give the high-speed motorboat, seaplane and high-speed passengers' ship a shot should follow the staffs' order and put on life vests. You should observe the safety rules and can't be careless. 4. People who have high blood pressure and heart diseases should not dive.
Guidelines for Diving
There are favorable conditions for diving in Sanya. Even though you can't swim, you can go diving safely under the guidance of your coach. Divers must have a good rest in advance and can't wear themselves out. In the water, you should communicate with your coach in gestures. When you don't feel good, you should come to the shore in time. Green hands of diving would suffer from an earache or headache. If so, you should adapt to this symptoms gradually and don't force yourself to do it. When feeling uncomfortable, do ask your coach to lead you out of the water.
1. Basic Rules
(1) You should always have a company and do follow your coach closely.
(2) You must put on a life vest.
(3) You should wear your balancing belt last.
(4) Don't use any earplug.
(5) You should clear up the water in the facial mask before hand.
(6) Don't do any movement that entails deep breathing. (7) You can take off your swimming fins, facial masks and respiratory siphon only when you're completely out of the water.
2. What to Do When You Lose Your Company
(1) Pull yourself together.
(2) You should keep yourself floating upward in order to expand your horizon and at the same time look for your companies. If you can't find any company, keep yourself floating on the surface and observe the surface carefully. Where there are bubbles, there are people.
(3) If you can't find your companies within 10 minutes, you should swim back to the place where you enter the water.