I travel miles & miles...

Days at Hainan 1..

Monday, March 23, 2009 10:11 PM

Day 1: The first day when i reached Hainan Dao, the kind of impression of the buildings was: "It looks like JB?!".. haha... yup.. Hmm.. After those buildings & on the way to the town area, the bus passed a lot of rice fields, vegetable fields.. The kind of life really look kind of relaxing, comfortable & slow- pace.. Even the buffalo lay around slacking.. haha.. Hmm.. It looks like slacking to me, coz they really just lay down on the grass & do nth.. haha.. Then i visited one of their beach & just watch & tale pic of 2 piece of stone.. HAHA.. they just meant some kind of legend of them lah.. And for dinner, i ate several of their local delicacy like "Wen Chang Chicken"..

Day 2: It's the start of visiting the attractions.. Hmm.. i went to a place where they actually build some of the main symbols/ icons of the asia countries like S'pore Merlion, India's God, etc.. It's actually quite boring for that coz, it's nt really something new.. haha.. Then i proceed to see the trible "village".. the trible is actually call "Li" Tribute.. i thought it was just like any other tributes that i used to see in Yunnan but then something really stop me from thinking a while & it really etch on my memory even till now..

There's actually a notice board outside a house that states that there's a 18 years old girl who had been living in a vase since she was born.. my first thoughts of seeing this was like, "are you sure?" But, when i really see her, i was really really shocked & i stunned there for a while.. All i can see is relly her head on the vase.. i thought it was something like "magic show" at first then i realized that there was really typically nth that i think she is able to do that.. The vase was put on a table that chinese usually used to put the Goddess Status.. And it really gives me a feeling that there's really no way of a magic show.. She talked really really soft & you need to lip- read what she replied.. I heard the care- taker of her said that because she was deformed (no hand & leg) so their trible believed that such person is a bad omen.. So they decide to put her in the vase, i heard that she can only eat liquid food every 2 days only.. The most shocking thing is that i heard her neck is as thin as a duck's neck.. it's really sad & stunning to know this thing & her image now really just stuck in my mind.. I really regret for nt helping their trible when they tried to sold the souvenirs to us coz i somewhat realized that they are actually very poor & they depend on the few tourist that visit them everyday for survival.. haiz.. it's too late to realize that.. At night, my mum & i then went to massage (Chinese Style) & i realized that the girl who was massaging for me was actually the same age as me.. i really feel that i was so fortunate that i can study, gain knowledge & there they are, already need to start working for their own survival due to "poverty"..

View the few pictures that i've taken at :
http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i40/snowblue13/Hainan%20Dao%209mar-%2013mar%2009/