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Banner41
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| Last time I was on a Xiamen beach I found two bloated dead pigs and a bloated dead dog......and just like the kids in Stand By Me I poked them with a stick....which were plentiful! |
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it'snotmyfault
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Deciding which is the best beach in China is like deciding which is the best fatal disease to have..... |
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theoriginalprankster
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| Last time I was on a Xiamen beach I found two bloated dead pigs and a bloated dead dog......and just like the kids in Stand By Me I poked them with a stick....which were plentiful! |
After a major storm some hog farms up the Minjiang River (I think that's the river) were flooded, and there were dozens of carcasses on the beach. It stank for about a month.
And after a fairly intense typhoon, amongst the medical waste was a bloated rottweiler - four paws to the sky.
It's definitely not Mauritius or the Seychelles, but there's miles of beaches, and boardwalk - great for cycling, jogging, people watching.
First beach party of the summer this Saturday night. Pity I have to work the next day. But plenty more during the summer months ahead.. |
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rioux
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Not so good in FZ, better in Xiamen. |
Is this because of the scenery? water quality? better things to do around the area (shop & eat)? prettier ladies? etc? |
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theoriginalprankster
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The city of Fuzhou is not that near the ocean. Xiamen is an island - the north-western and western seaboard is pretty grotty, but the south, south-west and western seaboard are nice.
Water quality in Xiamen - good question. I've always wanted to do a test of the water at the beaches I go to. All of Xiamen's sewerage used to go straight into the sea, but now they are installing processing plants before it gets sent to the sea.
When we have boat parties we head out to sea a bit, then swim. On one occasion a wave of trash headed towards us. I made it out the sea and back into the boat quicksticks. I think all manner of nasty stuff gets discharged into the sea. Re. swimming in it - I cycle along the coastline, scanning the water. If it looks reasonably clean (ie. greenish, not brown, not too much oil on the beach, no trash floating in the water) I'm good to go.
Girls - Fuzhou has some smokin' hotties - dolled up though. Xiamen - lots of pretty girls AND lots of pretty tourist girls. Xiamen girls are quite conservative, but there are lots of 'waidiren', as per every Chinese city.
I've dated girls from Sichuan, Shanghai, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Henan, and Guangdong. In Xiamen.
Not too many bikinis though, except for the beach parties.
I recall beiing in a taxi, driving past a beach, where two foreign girls were tanning in their bikinis. The taxi driver was like "wa kao - I drove past here two hours ago, and those two crazy laowai girls were there already". I laughed, he laughed, we laughed - for totally different reasons. |
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choudoufu
Joined: 25 May 2010
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Location: Mao-berry, PRC
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: haha |
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| creeper1 wrote: |
Nothing to be bragging about.
It's a Chinese beach right?
Therefore some toxic effluent from a nearby river/ factory/whatever is probably in the water. |
hahahah! hainan is an international tourism destination (per brochures).
there is no industry here. sure, there are some locals that make bricks
the old-fashioned way, baking them in a dirt-mound oven, and the local
stonemasons.......but heck, that's photogenic. aside from that, it's all
pineapples and mangoes and coconuts and passionate fruits.
chinese generally hate the beach (don't wanna turn black!), so miles and
miles of empty beach. there are only one or two tiny sections in use
nearby. for hordes of tourists (fat russian ladies with mustaches and
bikinis) one must travel to sanya.
and the chou still has his mankini purchased in berlin.  |
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lemak
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| Coastline...beach.....idyllic.....photogenic |
My campus apartment has a repugnant green swamp out the front window, and a pyramid-sized trash pile of rotting egg shells and meat bones kindly deposited by the food stall owners in Bacteria Alley out the back. A collection of endless fornicating, mangy dogs with overloaded titties dragging on the ground roaming around chasing the endless rotation of scabby cats and their babies who I'd almost guarantee wind up on the menu back at Grandma Yu's Kitchen. Shrieking Chinese neighbors picking their noses 24/7, Mr Shen strutting around in his Y-fronts cursing out his wife and grooming his 6 inch long mole hairs like a proud father, e-bike alarms going off left, right and center, a perpetual weird farty smell, fireworks in the stairwell scaring off the invading hordes of cockroaches.
Surprisingly I actually really enjoy it.
5~10 minute walk to class. Other lazy assed FTs ride their e-bikes which actually ends up taking them longer.
No beaches, alas. |
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thechangling
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| lemak wrote: |
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| Coastline...beach.....idyllic.....photogenic |
My campus apartment has a repugnant green swamp out the front window, and a pyramid-sized trash pile of rotting egg shells and meat bones kindly deposited by the food stall owners in Bacteria Alley out the back. A collection of endless fornicating, mangy dogs with overloaded titties dragging on the ground roaming around chasing the endless rotation of scabby cats and their babies who I'd almost guarantee wind up on the menu back at Grandma Yu's Kitchen. Shrieking Chinese neighbors picking their noses 24/7, Mr Shen strutting around in his Y-fronts cursing out his wife and grooming his 6 inch long mole hairs like a proud father, e-bike alarms going off left, right and center, a perpetual weird farty smell, fireworks in the stairwell scaring off the invading hordes of cockroaches.
Surprisingly I actually really enjoy it.
5~10 minute walk to class. Other lazy assed FTs ride their e-bikes which actually ends up taking them longer.
No beaches, alas. |
Great humour there. However having lived in China i know it's probably true. No exaggeration needed. |
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theoriginalprankster
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My campus apartment has a repugnant green swamp out the front window, and a pyramid-sized trash pile of rotting egg shells and meat bones kindly deposited by the food stall owners in Bacteria Alley out the back. A collection of endless fornicating, mangy dogs with overloaded titties dragging on the ground roaming......... Surprisingly I actually really enjoy it.
5~10 minute walk to class. Other lazy assed FTs ride their e-bikes which actually ends up taking them longer.
No beaches, alas. |
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NoBillyNO
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| With all the sand storms in Beijing ... I have a beach right outside my front door.. or is that a dessert. |
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MisterButtkins
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| To be honest, I've never understood why people like the beach. It's hot, full of sand, and the water smells bad. You have to shower after you go swimming. I have no idea why anyone would go to such a place. And yes, I'm being 100% serious. You would have to pay me to go to a beach |
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ecubyrd
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| Good for you, op. I prefer living in Shanghai and using some of the 2g per month savings to go vacation at a nice place not in China during my 6-7 week breaks in summer or winter with the wife. There is enough nature around the outskirts to keep me satisfied in-between. |
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theoriginalprankster
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| to go vacation at a nice place not in China during my 6-7 week breaks in summer or winter with the wife. There is enough nature around the outskirts to keep me satisfied in-between. |
Nice. I do the same. I have 3 months summer break though. I think I'll hit the Philippines this summer, or maybe Vietnam again.
I do have two other income streams, which makes life quite rosy.
And plenty of mountains to hike in, behind my complex. |
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ecubyrd
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Nice. I do the same. I have 3 months summer break though. I think I'll hit the Philippines this summer, or maybe Vietnam again.
I do have two other income streams, which makes life quite rosy.
And plenty of mountains to hike in, behind my complex. |
Sounds like life is good. Isn't it great to have so much vacation time? You certainly can't go wrong with either of those destinations; Vietnam is an all time favorite. |
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Denim-Maniac
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 1:11 am Post subject: |
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I do envy you guys your long holidays ... but I cant complain too much about where I live.
My place of work is less than 3 minutes on foot. If I forget something the 10 minute break between classes is ample time for me to return home and make it back before the next class starts. Its amazing how convenient that is on wet, rainy days or on the baking hot days when everything is an effort.
If I head in the opposite direction the famous Yangshuo countryside and karst mountain landscape is about 300 metres away. Although I dont go out on a bike as much as I should, it is nice to have it so close.
If I want to eat an Indian curry, pizza, Mexican, good old shepherds pie or pizza that part of town is a 20 minute walk.
Of course it's not perfect here ... a nearby dog that barks all night drives me crazy sometimes, but generally I would have to say Yangshuo is probably the easiest place to live in China! |
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