Haliho,
A sztorit mar megirtam, de egyelore csak angolul, aztan most minden
mad bajom van, nem volt idom/kedvem magyaritani, ha valaki megteszi,
megkoszonom.... most ide paste-olom, ha valaki tud angolul, akkor
nosza.
Diohejban annyit, hogy lejutni sikerult, meg vissza is, es egy kis
hatsogumi defektet leszamitva kozlekedesugyileg nem volt gond, oda
huszonegy, vissza huszonnegy oras maratoni (megallas nelkuli)
vezetessel sikerult megoldani a dolgot. Megallapitottam, hogy az utak
jok, de a 125 cc-s motor sajnos csak 80-as utazosebesseggel tud
robogni, azzal pedig sajnos egy ilyen 800 kilometeres tav nem olyan
elvezetes, mint a 250 vegsebessegu Opel volt Europaban...
Na, itt a sztori angolul (vegig egyes szam elso szemelyben, naploiras
stilusban, ezert kicsit nehezen olvashato, de mar nem akartam atirni
irodalmi stilusba):
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³ HAINAN TRIP ³ KIRANDULAS HAINAN SZIGETRE ³
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³ CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR ³ KINAI UJEV ³
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³ FROM JANUARY 23 TO 28, 2001 ³ 2001 JANUAR 23-TOL 28-IG ³
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³ BY MOTORBIKE ³ MOTORRAL ³
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³ WITH TENT ³ SATORRAL ³
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English version
Jan 23 Tue
I am leaving at 6:30am from Panyu. It's still dark outside, and I rely on my
instinct to find the way down to the south -- and use a compass to make sure
my instincts are right... I drive down to Shunde, Foshan, Kaipin, and there I
find the road G325 going down to Zhanjiang. I just follow the route, via Jiangm
en,
Yangjiang, Leizhou, Zhanjiang. The road is good, but... later I will
summarize what makes driving a nightmare in China :-) The weather is good,
warm and sunny, and warmer and warmer, as I descent to the south. I only stop
for filling gas and eating. I arrive at Zhanjiang late, around 6pm. I don't
want to waste time, so I immediately proceed to Haian, which is the port city
to Hainan. The evening is fallen, it's dusk and the road is bad for 25
kilometers. I arrive to Haian at 10pm. Check the ferry: available 24 hours a
day, but I choose to have a rest, and get over to Haikou the next day. I stay
in a cheap hotel, close to the ferry (80 yuan).
Jan 24 Wed
Get up late, around 8am, and taking the ferry to Haikou. The loading takes
1.5 hours, the trip itself another 1.5 hours, so I arrive to Haikou at noon.
A short cruising trip to the west, to check out what that enormous needle is:
I find out it's a new Ocean World tourist attraction, with a normandian
mediaval ship replica and lots of amusement park attractions. Instead of
this, I choose to explore the city and find a remote peaceful shore to set up
my tent for the night. I end up having found nothing but wasteland,
farms and abandoned harbours and other industrial sites. Being quite
disappointed, I choose to go back to the city and sleep in a cheap hotel
(90 RMB/night) for two days.
Jan 25 Thu
After getting up late (about 8am), strolling around in the city for
awhile, then going out for further explorations westwards. Discovered
many small villages, with nothing really particulatar to see apart from
penetrant smell of garbage everywhere, environmental pollution at
alarming level and poverty as hard as it gets... Still no place found to
set up a tent with a sea view. I choose to try the sea on the official
beach for 5 RMB, buy some coconuts, some sweet potatos, and warp into
the water. It's cold, but pleasantly salty and wavy... alas, the water
is a little dirty, so after a couple of minutes, I choose to have had
enough of this fun. The rest of the day I am cruising Haikou and it's
wide streets stranded by coco palm trees, and enjoy a dinner later in a
DongBeiRen restaurant (famous chain based on China's Northwest Food).
Jan 26 Fri
Time to go home, I get up late at 8, and leave to Haian by ferry.. I
arrive at noon. Part for Zhanjiang without a break. I stop on the way in
Leizhou, a lovely and untouched Chinese village. Nice places, wish to go
back there later. Also, I stop in Zhanjiang to see an enormous
development zone around the harbour area, it's simply breathtaking to
see a well-built and organized new zone. It's huge. I leave late, so I
need to hurry up. When the sky falls down, I realize that the back tyre
is burst. It's completely dark and there is NOTHING along the road. I
ride slowly around five kilometers to the next village to have it
changed. Once applied the new tyre, I notice that the front tyre is also
fixed the other way around (wrong way, against driving directions).
This, given the wiring inside the modern tubeless tyres, can be
disasterous when driving at high speed. I let it changed, too. Shortly
after leaving, I hear a smash behind me, and realize I lost something. I
go back to search, but cannot find anything. At the same time I realize
that I lost my mobile phone. I spend an hour searching it, but no avail.
Disappointed and sad, I continue the journey. Around 11pm I stop for a
short meal underway. The rest of the night I am driving with short stops
due to the freezing cold weather and tiredness in my eyes. Here comes a
critical observation about the traffic in China. The roads are generally
of good quality. However, at random intervals, there are all kind of
dangerous objects in the middle of the road, in the most unexpected
places, and nobody seems to take care of removing them. Secondly,
everybody drives using high beams and fog lamps, no matter it's
necessary or not. As a consequence, drivers are virtually blindened
when driving. Thirdly, most bicycles and pedestrians use no reflective
materials to ease awareness from drivers. Hence, drivers find that
people cross roads at just anywhere and anyhow they like. This makes
driving more like a gamble, but definitely a very dangerous one.
Jan 27 Sat
I arrive to Guangzhou at 8am. Feeling very tired, I go to bed
immediately and sleep until 3pm. Then I sit down to write this short
summary. For details, please contact me at  and/or 
or visit my website for the latest pictures (new pictures/010128) at
http://zsolt.way.to or http://zsolt.i.am
Hungarian version follows
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Magyar valtozat
(na ez varat meg magara)
A kepeket meg mindig nem raktam fel a netre, de ha valaki ir emailt,
elkuldok parat, a gepen mar fenn van.
Az ut NAGYON faraszto, szoval: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!! :-)) Csak
nagyfiuknak van ez a jatek kitalalva :-)
Ha valaki magyaritana a sztorit folos szabadidejeben, orok halam
uldozne ezert!!
Benoe
Kanton/HK Kina
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