breakfast in bo'ao

i like hainanese breakfast, haha. here some pics i took while experiencing bo'ao's breakfast culture...

more visitors from haikou

later on saturday i had a different group of friends over from haikou. we went to jiaji (qionghai) to first have dinner in a seafood restaurant (i wanted to show you the ambiance... tom & jerry on flatscreens all over the place, shiny decoration, etc), and later we had coffee and finally ended the evening with chaobing and qingbuliang. stuffed. but it was fun!

friends over for a visit

on saturday i had some friends from haikou over for a visit - hong and soniya! elizabeth took us to the dale watertown restaurant on the wanquan river. good food, good company.

more chinglish for you (and me)

please, protect the circumstances!!!

nanqiang village

one of the villages i visited was nanqiang village, a showcase village for democracy and law - whatever that's supposed to mean. but maybe that's why they have concrete paths instead of gravel paths like in most other villages? anyway, it's good to know that "the villagers have a happy life today", as the board with the information about the well informs us. the chinese characters on the house mean sth like "both boys and girls mean hope for our people". i was told that in hainan the boy-girl ratio is the worst in the country, and slogans like that can be found all over the province.

there's a lot of constructing going on in bo'ao, and real estate prices are rising constantly. soon, 9 more villages will be demolished, and their inhabitants will have to move to a different part of town. the villagers have mixed feelings about this. as they'll lose their land most of the villagers will have to find a job in the third industry.

bo'ao's primary school

more bo'ao

my stay in bo'ao is slowly coming to an end... therefore i try to take more pictures of everyday things and the countryside. that day i headed out in the early morning to ride my bike to the villages outside of town. i like the fact that they use the bo'ao decoration banners for their fields.

canal village

in bo'ao more and more hotels are being built. here one of the "older" ones, canal village, managed by kempinski. seems quite empty most of the time.

bo'ao's street life

i think i've mentioned before that hainanese men spend their days drinking tea in the local tea shops all day long. well, not quite. they take breaks whenever they have to get a proper meal, so at lunch and dinner times. sometimes i join them for their afternoon or evening tea (or coffee) sessions to get to know more about life in bo'ao. women are rarely seen there...except for the waitresses.

too much sun for the shop

have i mentioned that it's freakin' hot here these days? well, even the shop entrance has to be protected from the sun...

breakfast

my landlady took me to a rather big tea house in qionghai the other day to have interesting hainanese breakfast. she almost made me eat chicken feet. i refused politely.

visitor from qionghai

Ye, one of the english teachers at "my" english school, came to visit me in bo'ao the other day...these days it's terribly hot here, around 36 degrees centigrade, humidity around 85%. ufff.

view from our rooftop

the best place to hang out your laundry or have a cigarette in the dark: our rooftop. here the view from up there...among other buildings you can see the local middle school where the students have class until 21.30pm...

walk in the gulou area

christine and i spent my last afternoon in beijing with a walk in the gulou area, eating famous yoghurt.

cantonese food and chinese-german entertainment

after dining in a cantonese restaurant with great food we checked out a german-chinese music night, hosted by the Goetheinstitut in beijing. well... i guess it catered to chinese taste more than it catered to ours...

the art district

on sunday, yet another sunny day in beijing, we went for a relaxing walk and so-so coffee in 798, the art district.

qipao party and sanlitun

saturday night was spent partying in beijing. first we attended a qipao party, organized by christine's friends, and later the four austrians had a good time in sanlitun :-)