Sanya and Gillian, China (little rest and beauty)

Gonna keep this one short, We flew to the city of Sanya, which was touted as kind of China’s version of Hawaii. It was definitely a restful place and beautiful, but pretty sure it’s no Hawaii. Our “resort” kept us lingering around the pool and beach for 4 days, sleeping, reading, and overall chillin. Not much happened here, just a restful place to get away from the crowds in China, it’s easy to see why they vacation here. The only interesting thing to point out was that the giant pool was never visited during the day hours, hardly at all. But around nightfall the entire hotel seemed to come out and that was the time to go swimming. It appears Chinese dislike the sun and enjoy the pool almost exclusively at night. The hotel had it lit colorfully and lifeguards on duty for the crowds. Different and unique.
After vegging in Sanya, we hopped another short flight to Gillian (pronounced Gway-Lin). Where we enjoyed the natural limestone mountains scenery for a few days, sampled the local rice noodles (far too many times), and unfortunately witnessed a full on mafia beat-down walking home one day. Gillian is a lot like Halong Bay in Vietnam, except the limestone mountains shoot up from the land instead of water, very beautiful, great place to snap pictures and take a tough hike or casual lift to the top of one for epic green views. We went to a few large parks and met a new friend whilst sucking down rice noodles. We were invited to dinner and shared too much food and broken English conversation filled with humor and many smiles to fill the void. ______ was a sales rep for a company and just out of University. We shared our joy of good Kung Fu and fighting movies and beer 
One of the unfortunate parts of travel has been the odd incidences. While walking back to our hotel from a very busy park, we noticed a little mini-van rocking side to side in the parking lot. We stopped as there were 2 ladies and 2 men outside just watching the same thing. We were about 15-20 feet away. It didn’t take long to figure out, but a middle-aged man in the front seat was being punched from both sides of the car while he was sitting in the car. We suspected a robbery or possibly him coming upon someone trying to steal his car. However, after 30 seconds of punching, kicking, etc., they pulled him out onto the crowd, gave several swift kicks, shouts, and then ran off, empty handed. All the local bystanders (who were actual passengers in the vehicle, did not interfere, shout for help, call police, or anything). The 2 ladies and other 2 men picked him up, put him in the mini-van, then drove off. The 2 dishing out the beating took nothing, so we’re guessing it was a “message” being delivered of some sort. Glad I did not go over to help out. That was the tough part, watching this and not being able to understand the shouting or language to even know what is going on. Pretty scary stuff, broad day light and highly odd the other passengers did not intervene. Nothing like an eventful last day in China 