8 Days Hainan Island In-depth Tour
Haikou - Boao - Wanning - Lingshui - Sanya
Haikou - Boao - Wanning - Lingshui - Sanya
What to experience in Hainan? Warm sunshine, soft beaches, luxury hotels, colorful marine creatures and invigorating watersports? No, they are just the well-known parts of Hainan and Hainan is much more than that.
This 8-day tour takes you to enjoy the obvious essences of Hainan as well as explore some less obvious but no less impressive attractions. Starting from - the capital Haikou on the northern island of Hainan, you will go all the way north to Sanya - East Hawaii along the golden travel route (the eastern line of Hainan). Lots of surprises are involved, such as ancient buildings, geoparks, uninhabited islands, cute animals, etc., and of course the beautiful beaches, from which you can explore Hainan from all perspectives - holiday atmosphere, history, religions, architectures, minorities, etc.
This tour package covers a well-organized itinerary, professional local, guide hand-picked hotels, private comfortable transfer, as well free time to have an undisturbed holiday. It is also available to customize a tour according to your own needs.
Day 1 Haikou Arrival
Haikou airport pick up and hotel check in
Welcome to Haikou, the Coconut City! Your tour guide will meet you at Haikou Meilan Airport or Haikou Railway Station, and then escort you to your hotel. The rest of today is free for you to relax yourself and explore this beautiful city on your own.
Haikou Arrival Idea: It is convenient to take a flight to Haikou from Beijing (4h), Shanghai (3.5h), Xian (3h), Guangzhou (1.5h), Chengdu (2.5h), Chongqing (2.5h), Nanjing (3h), Hangzhou (3h), etc.
Day 2 Haikou City Exploration (B)
Today's highlights: Volcanic Crater Park, Hainan Museum, Qikou Old Street
This morning, you will first visit Volcanic Crater Park (Huoshankou Geopark) which is natural volcano geology museum about 15 kilometers from Haikou downtown. After the last eruption happened 13,000 years ago, 36 intact volcano craters were left and preserved till now. Fengluling Volcanic Crater is a big highlight. You will walk along the stone footsteps and view many geological remains, dense tropical forest vegetation, beautiful wild flowers, etc. As you climb to the summit (222.8 meters) which is also the highest point of Haikou, you will get a wonderful panoramic view of Haikou City and Qiongzhou Strait on sunny days. It is also available to enter into the crater to explore volcanic shapes at a close distance (not recommended to the seniors because of the steep steps).
In the afternoon, you will drive to Holiday Beach where bright sunshine, gold-sand beach, green coconut palms, gentle weaves and outstanding tropical scenery set each other off. The beach is clean, quiet and safe for all visitors, and many locals also come here for nature. You can comfortably lie on the soft sands in the warm sunshine to fully indulge in the relaxing atmosphere. There are many walking paths which lead you to the coastal views as well as tropical plants. Besides, you can also enjoy other entertaining activities like swimming, barbecue, hot spring and moto-boat (optional). Then you will drive to Qilou Old Street - a historic street with over 600 arcade buildings featuring exotic landscapes. With a fusion of European and Asian styles, these buildings were mostly built by overseas Chinese merchants at the beginning of the 20th century. An arcade building usually has a ground floor served as a storefront to take shelter from rain and sunlight, and one or more upper floors used as living quarters. Today, Qikou Old Street is also a food street offering squid, pancakes, fried food, barbeque items, soups, scallops, bread, etc.
After sightseeing, drive back to your hotel for accommodation.
An Aerial Photo of Volcanic Crater Park
Day 3 Haikou - Boao (B)
Today’s highlights: Boao Town, Boao Asia Forum International Conference Center, Jade Belt Beach
After breakfast in your hotel, you will take an about 2 hours to from Haikou to Boao Town in Qionghai. In this beautiful town, you will go to visit Boao Asia Forum International Conference Center, located on the beautiful Dongyu Island, serves as the permanent venue for the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia . Since 2002, the forum has been held regularly in Boao, and has evolved into a high-level platform for dialogue among government officials, business leaders, and academics from Asia and other continents on important regional and global issues. The center boasts magnificent and modern architecture, state-of-the-art conference facilities, serene golf courses blending with the surrounding rivers and sea, and captivating ancient legends, all harmoniously showcasing the interplay between humans and nature.
You will then transfer to the Jade Belt Beach - Boao's biggest highlight in Boao lying on the delta formed by three rivers together, namely the Longgun, Wanquan, and Jiuqu Rivers that flow into the South China Sea. Because of its magical golden-jade sand, Jade Belt Beach has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. You can also take part in many marine activities.
After sightseeing, transfer to the hotel.
Day 4 Boao - Wanning (B)
Today’s highlights: Shimei Bay, Fenjiezhou Island
This morning, you will transfer to Wanning, which is 50 km (within 1 hour) away from Boao. Upon arival, you will be taken to Fenjiezhou Island which is located in the southeastern sea of Hainan Island, approximately 1.2 nautical miles off the coast. It takes about 10 minutes by boat to reach the island. The small island stretches in a northeast-southwest direction, lying horizontally in the blue sea. From a distance, it resembles a saddle shape and covers an area of approximately 0.41 square kilometers. Fenjiezhou Island is renowned as a heavenly resort destination. The island features wide and pristine beaches, perfect for sunbathing and beach activities. It also boasts rich tropical rainforests, magnificent waterfalls, and dense jungles. In addition to the natural beauty, visitors can explore historical sites, museums, and cultural centers on the island to learn about the local traditional culture and customs, as well as savor local specialty cuisine.
In the afternoon, you will go to enjoy some leisure time at Shimei Bay which is praised as the most beautiful undeveloped bay in Hainan by the World Tourism Organization. Surrounded by blue seas and dense forests on two sides, Shimei Bay stretches 6 kilometers long and consists of two crescent-shaped bays. You can walk on or lazy on silver beach which is really soft as the cottons. You will be transferred to your hotel after admiring the breathtaking sunset.Accommodate at your hotels in Waning.
Day 5 Wanning - Lingshui - Sanya (B)
Today’s highlights: Nanwan Monkey Island, Dan Family Bay
After breakfast in your hotel, drive 75 km (about 1.5 hours) to Lingshui and visit Nanwan Monkey Island, which is the only island-type macaque nature reserve in China and home to more than 2500 macaques. There are nearly 400 kinds of tropical plants and nearly 100 kinds of animals on the island. You will take an open-air cable car across the sea to get to Monkey Island. The scenery from the cable car is amazing, including the coastal views and local fishing villages. Walking into the park of Monkey Island, you will get up-close with monkeys ranging from monkey babies to old ones in a natural setting. The park has a series of paths, along which you can walk through the jungle and watch the monkeys freely jumping into the water, climbing the trees, eating fruits and interacting with people.
After the happy moments with the cute monkeys, you will take a boat to explore the Dan Family Bay - a village floating on the wide Xincun Harbor to the east. The villagers has long lived in the boat and made a living from fishing. Wandering through the wooden houseboats and listening to the stories of the local people, you will get a better understanding of Dan family culture.
After sightseeing, drive to Sanya - the best place for beach resorts in China for accommodation. 1) You'd better not wear bright clothes which may grab the attention of the monkeys. 2) Do not open the bag to take anything in front of the monkeys, or they may think you are looking for food for them. 3) If you want to feed the monkeys, feed them all at once and do not provoke them, or they will rush to grab food. 4) Take care of your kids and never leave your kids alone with the monkeys 5) Do not frighten, shout at or stomp feet to the monkeys, or they may think you will attack them.
Day 6 Sanya Beach relaxation on your own (B)
Choose your favorite beach from Yalong Bay, Sanya Bay, Dadonghai and Haitang Bay
Relaxing on a beautiful beach is the core experience of any Sanya holiday, so is in this tour. Today is a free day for you to relax and have fun on a charming beach in Sanya. There will be no sightseeing and activity arranged. If you need service for transfer between your hotel and beach, please let your travel consultant arrange for you. You can also use local taxi to move around. Below are recommended beaches in Sanya:
Yalong Bay - Being said to be the most beautiful beach in China, Yalong Bay has a crescent-shaped，7-kilometer long blue-water beach with soft sand and clear water. Yalong Bay is about 40 mins way by car from Sanya downtown. Many high-end luxury hotels are located there. Yalong Bay also popular for swimming and snorkeling. You can also go to enjoy some leisure walking and panoramic view of Yalong Bay in the Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park.
Sanya Bay - Sanya Bay’s water and sand are not as great as Yalong Bay, but it is the best location to watch the sunset in Sanya. Its beach stretches 22 kilometers. On the up side, a wide range of fun activities are on offer at Sanya Bay, such as wind surfing, sailing, etc. Located only about 7km from downtown, the rates of hotel, food and activities in Sanya Bay are relatively lower than other beaches.
Dadonghai - Dadonghai is a small beach with fewer tourists than Yalong and Sanya Bays. It is most famous for its blue waters, white sands, green trees and water sports. Shops, restaurants and amusement facilities can be reached easily from the beach as it is only 3km from Sanya downtown.
Haiitang Bay - if you are looking for a quieter escape, Haitang Bay is the best choice. Locating about 28km away from Sanya downtown, the bay has a 42.3km beautiful long coastline replete with newly-constructed resorts including the famous Atlantis Resorts. You will also find China Duty Free Mall, the world’s largest duty free shopping centre.
Day 7 Sanya Local Cultural Exploration (B)
Todays' highlights: Betelnut Valley (Binglanggu), Nanshan Buddhism Cultural Park
Today，you will have a classic exploration of local culture and living style to enrich your holiday in Sanya.
After breakfast, you will be taken to visit Betelnut Valley (Binglanggu) which is an exotic village featuring Li and Miao tribes. It is the best place for you to find the roots of Hainan. There are many informative and interesting exhibits to learn about the indigenous culture. You will see many interesting things here - the women weaving fabric using their feet, musicians playing flute with nose, young girls dancing… There is also a one-hour performance showing ethnic culture and way of life of Li and Miao people in the park. Walking through of the stylish houses of the village is another unique experience.
In the afternoon, you will go to visit the cultural center of Sanya - Nanshan Buddhism Cultural Park which provides a wide variety of Buddhist disciplines represented with individual temples and gardens for particular types of meditation. The biggest highlight is the magnificent 108-meter-high sea-based Kwangyin Statue which is one of the tallest statues in the world, surrounded by beautiful gardens by the sea.
Before transferring back to your hotel, you will go to take a leisure walk and enjoy sunset on the Coconut Dream Corridor which is a seashore scenery avenue built along Sanya Bay, with coconut trees standing along the roadside.
Day 8 Sanya Departure (B)
Sanya airport drop off
Today is the departure day. It is free for you to plan your activities. Before your flight taking off, your driver will come to pick up you from your hotel, then transfer you to the airport. Your Sanya holiday finishes.
1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room
and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according your
traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of
currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2025.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change
according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.
Hi Rita,
The best experience ever!!!! I fell in love.
I received your lovely card and cute gifts, thank you so much.
Done it! As always it’s my pleasure to hire your company services, see you in the next adventure.
Emmy
Hi Rita,
Please kindly see the feedback below.
We are a family of 7. This private tour package definitely met our expectations! Both tour guides (Chengdu- MAY & Chongqing-DAVID) provided us a very good service, both friendly and very flexible despite the change in our tour schedules. They were also very responsible and ensured our safety, meals and transports were well taken care of, especially since we have elderly and kids in our group. Both tour guides are very fluent in English too so it is very convenient for some of the non-chinese speakers in our group.
We will look for the same tour agent again in our next trip to China!
Best Regards,
Victoria
Hi Shirley,
Thanks for the tour, and the itinerary that you planned for us was very comprehensive and detailed. We enjoyed it very much. The tour guide was also very friendly and experienced. He followed your itinerary closely and brought us to all the sites and explained in detail. He also recommended and brought us to enjoy some of the local cuisines during lunch.
Overall, we are impressed by the excellent service, reliability and quality that yourself, the tour guide and the driver has provided us. We would like to visit China again and we will not hesitate to engage your services again. Thank you!
Regards
Chun How
Hi Shirley,
I'm writing to provide some feedback on our recent Xian and Beijing trip that you put together for us.
We travel a lot, in the past year to Japan, New Zealand, China, Turkey, Africa, China, and finally this Xian/Beijing trip. I bring this up to highlight that we deal with a lot of travel professionals. You are easily the best travel professional we have dealt with through all of those trips. My wife, who happens to be Chinese asked me to make sure to keep your contact information for future China trips, with the intention of replacing the China based agent her brother usually uses for our trips.
Please let your manager know that we would probably not have used your company if not for you. Bamboo Travel is new to us and in a foreign country, so we had doubts as to what to expect. Your service was excellent from start to finish which really gave us confidence in your company. We had a little bit of an unusual itinerary and some constraints related to our other China travel prior to this tour. You were able to work through all of our issues with fast responses to our questions.
You also went what I would say was above and beyond expectations. The final example of that is a friend in the US was shipping some things to our hotel in Beijing for me to bring home to her. I contacted you to confirm the hotel name before they shipped the items, expecting I would then have to figure out the shipping details. Your reply not only confirmed the hotel, but you provided the shipping info in both English and Chinese, which saved me the hassle of trying to figure which address to use. Not a huge thing, but it's those small things that add up to a big difference in customer experience.
Thanks again for everything!
Xian:
Our guide was Waldner and we liked him from the start. We were just coming off another tour with another company which had maybe the best tour leader we've ever had. Even though we were always comparing Waldner measured up well. He was great at explaining the history of places we visited as well as answering our cultural questions. The restaurants/food were very good. He and the driver also modified the itinerary somewhat to optimize the driving based on our arrival and departure times and locations. We liked the hotel in Xian. The car (van) was very comfortable. Waldner also helped arrange tickets for a night show for us.
Beijing:
Pickup was great; even though we got in late the guide that picked us up was there and actually met us at the track. Cindy was our guide and we really liked her also. She is very knowledgeable and willing to answer (a lot of) questions. This was my 3rd time in Beijing and it was amazing what a difference having a good guide made. Cindy and the driver also modified the itinerary to optimize the driving. She also helped us book tickets to two shows, one of which was not on your list of optional items (Lao She tea house). Cindy was concerned about us ordering a cab so she stayed at the show to make sure we got back to our hotel ok. The restaurants/food were very good. The hotel was good but not great; for example we had hot water issues every day, and when I went to pick up a package that was shipped to me they just left me to dig through a pretty large pile of packages all addressed in Chinese.
To wrap up, I would rate the overall experience of looking for a trip, picking a company, and traveling 9.5 out of 10. Shirley, your service was 10 out of 10.
See you next trip!
Terry
Dear Rita,
Feedback.
The trip organised by Rita Jiang to Beijing and Xian was very well planned and enjoyable, showing the best of Chinese history, culture, heritage, and enormous progress.Your 2 guides, Linda Chua and Beryl are very good. Linda went out of her way to take us to Peking Opera at night. The kids were tired, so we did not go to Summer palace and Heavenly temple, and did not go to Xian Pagoda. It was our choice, so its ok. (I have been to all)
The 2 bus drivers were excellent, very careful, disciplined and good temperament and helpful. I could not give a tip to Beryl at Xian station, as I had to rush into toilet inside, and did not know she could not enter the train Station.
The pace was good, but the last day of train from Xian, to hotel (plus late dinner scrabbling in Beijing), then early next morning to airport was too Hectic. However, it was because we had to return on 8.12.24. we wish we could stay longer in Xian, and elsewhere. We could probably have gone to Xian by train, then fly back to Beijing by plane, but one way tickets could cost much more.
Anyway, thank you very much for all your fine arrangements. We all enjoyed the short trip.
For the kids, the major highlights were the Great Wall, Terracotta warriors, Acrobatic show. They will treasure. I will plan more trips for them to China.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Richard
excellent assistance, helpfulness and courtesy. My contact 'was Shirley, prepared friendly and punctual. Highly recommended...
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An Aerial Photo of Volcanic Crater Park
Hotel Beach with Beautiful Sea View
A Featured Building in Qikou Old Street
Beautiful Jade Belt Beach
Boao Asia Forum International Conference Center
Peaceful Shimei Bay
Fenjiezhou Island surrounded by blue sea
Cute Monekeys in Nanwan Monkey Island
Stunning Yalong Bay Lying under the Tropical Paradise Forest Park
Peaceful Beach of Haitang Bay
Kwangyin Statue of Nanshan Temple
Betelnut Valley (Binglang Gu) - Village of Li and Miao Ethnic Groups
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