Week One

Week 1

It has been amazing 7 days in Asia. Sweet Sugar waited for me in Hong Kong where she's been for last month - I was very excited to see her after more than 30 days.
I left Alberta buried under deep snow, well just prior to my departure I had the best skiing this season - and while taking off from Vancouver airport, the mountains were covered by snow...I knew I was going to warmer place, but I didn't know it would be too warm.

The flight was the longest in my life, Vancouver - Hong Kong, more then 13 hours, but very pleasant, as I had 2 seats for myself (lucky me!), and the aircraft, Boeing 777 has enough leg room (and I am only 180 cm tall :)).

Border crossing and customs control in Hong Kong was quick and painless, and I was entering this new world, a bit different than one I was coming from. It was so warm and humid in Hong Kong! Totally opposite from cold and dry Alberta weather. It was still April, but balmy 27 C greeted me in this stunning city. As a kid while watching Bruce Lee movies I was imaging and dreaming about Hong Kong and this world, how I would go there one day and see it with my own eyes, and now, I was here.

I am writing this in Sanya, on Hainan Island, the southernmost tip of China, where we are spending a week. It is 9 AM, it is tropically hot, skies are blue (it looks like there is more than one sky above me), sea water is blue green, and it is already....probably 29 C.

"I am badly burnt, but still alive", to quote famous assasin Mustafa, from Austin Powers trilogy - well, I made a mistake 2 days ago, decided to do some sun tanning, forgot for a moment that this is a tropical climate, and ultimately, I paid the price. It's been very painful, red and blistery. Ah, there is always something new to learn.

As there is so mych to write and say about the island itself, here is a link to more information to this tropical paradise.

Well, this is my first report from Asia - it's been overwhelming and great so far, so when I find more time, I will write more.