Sanya Business Trip (by Saharudin)

Self-portrait photo

A business trip oversea is nothing much leisure and excitement than flying abroad on a family vacation. However, if one does not used to travel abroad and have never stepped into the country to be visited, feelings of pleasure cannot be denied to exist, albeit slightly. Perhaps this opportunity only happens once in a long time parameter, taking into account that overseas business trips are often handled by a higher level of senior management.

My recent visit to Sanya, Hainan, is my first trip to the asian country outside South East Asia. I have been to several countries, but that are all merely within the province. Therefore China has carved one more experience on my trip abroad.

Before the event occurs, the urge of curiosity has raised many questions about the nature of places to be visited. With the prevalent access of the internet at my fingertips, I managed to figure out information such as, there locates The Guanyin Statue of Hainan, also known as Guan Yin of the South Sea of Sanya, a 108 metre tall statue that is currently gazzetted as the fourth tallest statue in the world.

It took us 13 accumulate hours, commence from my home in Shah Alam early in the morning (7.15am) to arrive the hotel at Sanya early in the night (8.15pm). Public communication is an obvious failure because most people there are illiterate in english. They are mono-lingual society and speak only their own language, even if they communicate with tourists or foreigners. Only few spoke a little english and they are the people who are employed by hotels. Even worst, they have different terms for some of the most basic tittle. For example, Hotel Crowne Plaza is called "Hua Yu Huang Quan" in Chinese.

In conclusion, it was a fruitful business trip because we have met up with our international business partners and share many information ahead our business endavours.