Sanya.

A southern Hainan city of four districts, coastal bays, island waters and hilltop views.

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Yalong Bay’s calm visitor rituals sit above a reef environment governed by rules about how people may enter and move through it.

Wuzhizhou’s present tourism economy and its reported reef-restoration program belong in the same account.

At Tianya Haijiao, Qing-era inscriptions give a coastal landscape a language of distance, memory and return.

At Nanshan, a walk toward the monumental statue sits within a larger landscape of temples, halls and gardens.

Daxiao Dongtian’s protected rocks and inscriptions preserve how people named a coastal landscape over time.

The Luhuitou summit brings a tourism-board telling of a Li legend into view over Sanya’s bays.

Sanya Bay becomes legible through a municipal walking route, while reef-restoration work continues offshore.

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Yalong Bay, Sanya, photographed in 2008.Gary Todd · CC0 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1920-pixel thumbnail; the upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies are scaled without enlargement.
Coastal foliage frames the sea at Wuzhizhou Island.Rynco Maekawa · Unsplash License Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Downloaded original image file is retained; WebP display and thumbnail derivatives are resized as needed, without enlargement.
The carved characters 小洞天 at Nanshan Dongtian Park, Sanya.Mkckim · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full original was not downloaded. WebP derivatives were not enlarged.
Visitors gather along Sanya Bay’s shore as dusk falls.eko wang · Unsplash License Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Downloaded original image file is retained; WebP display and thumbnail derivatives are resized as needed, without enlargement.