The vast and broad beach of Yalong Bay extends gently for 8 km, and clear-white and fine sand is sprawling around. Yalong Bay boasts rare national resources across China, comparable with any famous tropical coastal resorts around the world. About 28 km away in the southeast from the Sanya city - a tropical coastal tourism destination in the southmost of China, Yalong Bay extends an overall stretch of about 7.5 km in the half-moon shape and is recognized as one of the well-renowned tourism spot in Hainan province. The wide and flattish beach in the fascinating bay stretches 7 km, and the neritic area extends as wide as 50 – 60 m. Sand is clear-white and appears fine, while the clear sea water glitters blue and is visible for 7 – 9 m in depth. The spectacular bay is endowed with abundant submarine resources, teeming with gorgeous corals, a wide variety of tropical fish, and rare and precious shells. Yalong features agreeable climate all through the year, with the average temperature of 25.5°C and 22-25.1 °C of the sea water temperature. The calm and tranquil bay offers an incomparably favorable site all through the year for sailboarding, swimming, and waterskiing lovers.
26km away from Jinghai Hotel & Resort, the Nanshan Cultural & Tourism Resort is located in Nanshan, Sanya, with national highways and Hainan Ring Expressway in the north. Its main attractions are Nanshan Temple, Statue of Nanhai Guanyin, Guanyin Cultural Garden, Tianzhu Saint Vestige, Forest of Towers, Guigen Garden, the Buddhist cultural center, and a Buddhist cuisine & shopping street. Nanshan Tourism Resort is a place of interest that epitomizes the essence of Chinese culture and highlighting the ambience of peace, happiness and harmony.
Situated in the southwest about 23 km away from the Sanya downtown area, Tianya-Haijiao Scenic spot, is well-known both at home and abroad for its breathtaking tropical natural sceneries, time-honored historical and cultural greatness, and indigenous ethnic customs and traditions, emerging as a tourism highlight from the establishment of Hainan Province. Against the backdrop of green mountains, the scenery spot embraces blue sea, grounds with clear-white sands, intersperses with huge rocks, and blends with chromatic coral reefs, to create a heavenly painting screen in iridescent colors; coconut trees, rolling waves, fishing junks, sea gulls, and floating clouds, bind together into an exotic landscape mingling coconut trees in South China.
The West Island of Sanya, with a full name of “Ximaozhou Island”, is located in the sea area of Sanya Bay, 15 km away from the downtown. Together with East Island, it looks just like two hawksbill sea turtles in bluish waves. The West Island is composed of a fishing village with a history of 4 centuries and a scenic area featuring diving and marine recreational programs. Boasting a swimming resort and diving base, the scenic area also offers a wide range of marine recreational programs such as motorboat, parasailing and banana boat. The affiliated island Niuwang Ridge used to a military fortress which maintains original island view and splendid scenery of the sea and the sky blending into each other.
Situated 40 km west of Sanya downtown, Dongtian Park Scenic Area features a total area of 22.5 square kilometers and a time-honored history of 800-odd years. As a well-renowned Taoist culture scenic area, Dongtian Park Scenic Area is reputed as the No.1 landscape attraction in Sanya Island for its gorgeous seaview, mountain scenery and rockscape. Inside the scenic area, stone inscriptions and cliff-side carvings are still preserved in “Small Dongtian”, “Fishing Pavilion”, “Sea Mount Wonder”, “Feet of the Immortals”, and “Peak of Sword Match”. The mountain, sea and forests are indispensable elements of places of interest. Here, the hundred li stretch of Yazhou Bay features a boundless expanse of clear blue water; the Aoshan Mount with green forests features grotesque rock formations and deep caves; all these extraordinary works of nature spread all over the seacoast, as if it were a scroll of magnificent natural landscape paintings.
