After a quite generous breakfast outside facing the sea where we ate as much as we can, we gathered our things and went to the beach. Wow, that’s a nice beach and a very empty one as well. We immediately found 2 beach long chairs and settled down. While Monika was enjoying the late morning sun I went for a swim. Water was a bit fresh but once you’re in it’s perfect. Water is very clean and transparent (so you can see fish swimming around with you).
Unlike the beaches in Italy where vendors are bugging you every 10minutes, here it’s pretty quiet except for a woman or 2 trying to sell you pearl necklaces.
What was interesting is that until 4pm there was almost no one on the beach, mostly non Chinese tourists. So where were the Chinese people? Maybe at a conference, maybe visiting, we don’t know. But as of 4pm they all came down to the beach: the quiet restful beach became animated with kids running around, men playing volleyball and women chatting or swimming. A whole new beach experience.
At sunset we went for a walk on the beach. Yalong beach is said to be 7km long so tonight we headed towards the shortest walk. This was lovely to walk on the sand with your feet nicely wet by the waves. Unfortunately between us and the sun there are hills / mountains so we could not see the full sunset but the colors in the sky were already amazing
PS: pictures will follow of course, as soon as I get a chance to process them, so hang on :)
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