We arrived in Sanya Phoenix Airport just after 1:00 and
decided to extend our transport luck and take a bus into town before we headed
up into the hills to the rainforest. With a little help from the bus driver and
a nice Chinese family, like us, just arriving, we figured out our stop and off
we went. I gave the driver a 10RMB note and was looking for 2RMB change but I never
received it; I was not sure how to ask for it in Chinese. All the seats were
occupied with several us standing, ME got a seat. As we rode along we made
several stops picking up a few people each time. Within several miles the bus
was completely full. The driver was a
real character, between honking this horn at everything that came vaguely close
to the bus, he was spitting out the
window and clearing his nose, I think, out the window too. When the bus got too
full in the front he collected money from the front door and told people to use
the side door to enter the bus. At one stop a peasant women boarded the bus
with a big basket of little do-dads to sell. There was this heated argument
with the driver for several minutes until she backed down and got off the bus.
We continued along picking up people at every stop, I thought the bus was going
to burst with people. We finally entered town and within several stops there
was only a few left on the bus. We were reminded by the driver that our stop
was coming up. ME asked me if I was going to ask for my 2RMB change, I said no
that I was thinking of giving him another 10RMB for that great entertaining ride
we were just on.
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| the road into town, lined with light poles powdered by wind and solar |
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