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Sanya
City on Hainan Island, China

Sanya

Sanya is a resort city and the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan Province in South China.

Plan a trip to Sanya→From Haikou (Meilan)

It is a major tourist destination with several large scale resorts and contains the Sanya coral reef, a national protected nature reserve spanning 4000 hectares. Phoenix Island, an artificial island with a seven-star resort and a complex of five-star hotels, is in Sanya Bay. The Guanyin of Nanshan, a Buddhist statue of Guanyin, is the thirteenth tallest statue in the world and is located in Sanya.

Get in

Getting to Sanya

  1. 01
    Sanya Phoenix International Airport
  2. 02
    Sanya Bus Station
  3. 03
    Sanya West Bus Station
  4. 04
    Sanya Railway Station
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    DaDongHai
  2. 02
    Luhuitou Park
  3. 03
    Dongtian Park
  4. 04
    Paddy Field National Park
  5. 05
    Phoenix Hill
  6. 06
    Tianya Haijiao
Do

Things to do

An English Corner is an informal regular gathering where locals meet to practice their English. If you show up and are visibly foreign, people will sometimes be eager to talk to you (outside of Dadonghai area). This gives you a chance to meet some locals and socialize even if you don't speak much Chinese. As of 2026, these are mostly extinct.

  1. 01
    Mystic Springs Golf Club
  2. 02
    Yalong Bay Golf Club
  3. 03
    Beauty Crown Theater
  4. 04
    Red Detachment of Women Performance Park
  5. 05
    Atlantis Sanya
  6. 06
    Sanya Beluga Discovery Ocean World
Eat

Where to eat

= = There are plenty of good Chinese regional-food restaurants, including many Sichuan, Cantonese, and DongBei places. There are also a few foreign / Western food restaurants, especially Dolphin and Young Bar, and of course the ubiquitous McDonald's (DaDongHai and Jiefang Lu), Starbucks (in Summer Mall) and KFC (105 Jiefang Lu; Duojialian; 63 Guoxing Dadao; Renmin Lu).

How locals move

Getting around Sanya the local way

  • Get inThe whole train is loaded on to a ferry for the journey from mainland China to the Island, then continues its journey around the west coast as far as Sanya.

From Wikivoyage: Sanya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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