Xisha Travel Guide: How to travel to Xisha?

The Xisha Islands attract many "tourists" who come to Hainan for their beauty, richness, and freshness. Many of them come just to see the beautiful scenery of Xisha Islands. However, Xisha Islands are currently not open to the public. For foreign tourists, the only way to travel to Xisha is as follows. There are two means of transportation to choose from when traveling to Xisha: flying in the sky, one is an airplane; and one traveling by sea, is a ship. If it doesn't matter to you, if you are not a high-ranking official in the government, please don't think about the first method. It is difficult for ordinary observers to get on a plane to Woody Island. It is the means of transportation for senior state officials to inspect Xisha and important people on the island. . Most people can only go to the island by boat, and boat rides are divided into formal and extraordinary channels: the formal method is to take the "Qiongsha 3" between Qinglan Port in Wenchang City, Hainan Island and Yongxing in the Paracel Islands. "Qiongsha No. 3" passenger and cargo ship; the other is to charter a fishing boat with local fishermen in Wenchang or Qionghai. The cost is a bit expensive, but it is not a problem to share it with multiple people, but the experience is not that of taking the "Qiongsha No. 3" Nothing can be compared. However, the latter way to go to Xisha is potentially too dangerous. In today's society of "life first, freedom second, money third", we should choose a safer way to go. It is recommended to take the "Qiongsha 3" No." There are more than a hundred people on the "Qiongsha 3" every time. Everyone is not surprised that the "Qiongsha 3" is overcrowded. People who don't have cabins will take out their luggage on the ship after boarding the ship. People lay down or sit on the straw mats prepared long ago. The decks and passages were full of people. Going to the toilet or getting boiled water was like walking through thousands of troops. The "Qiongsha" sailed at sea for 13 hours and arrived at the Yongxing Island Pier. From then on, the officers and soldiers on the island were able to eat fresh fruits and vegetables that came with the ship on time, and they were also able to take a smooth large ship to and from Hainan Island. And Woody Island. There are so many people traveling between Xisha and Hainan Island every month, including officers and soldiers on Yongxing Island, sales staff working in the Xisha, Central and Nansha Working Committees and offices, fishermen on the island, There are also migrant workers who contributed their labor in obscurity to the construction of Yongxing Island. It is very difficult for them to return home even once. On this small island surrounded by the sea, "Qiongsha No. 3" is the only medium to contact home. People on the Xi, Nan and Zhongsha Islands call "Qiongsha No. 3" the "lifeline" because its arrival means the arrival of many "fresh" things: fresh vegetables, fresh meat, fresh food, etc. Things, and fresh faces. The crew members on the "Qiongsha 3" are very enthusiastic, and the captain, political commissar, and chief engineer are all amiable. Because the ship is often overcrowded, and every time they sail, there will be three or five people bunking on the floor in their room, but they are not at all No complaints, still standing at his position as always. The cook is the hardest worker on the ship. No matter how the ship rolls, whether he gets seasick or not, he will prepare three meals a day for the crew. Don’t think it’s easy. Just try it out after a night of bumps on the ship. You can appreciate his greatness. I heard that the cooks, the first mate, and the third mate on the ship were all veteran militiamen who had participated in the 1974 Xisha naval battle, which was really admirable. "Qiongsha 3" is a supply ship for the Xi, Nan and Zhongsha Islands. Almost all daily necessities and mails on the islands are carried by "Qiongsha 3". "Qiongsha 3" currently makes two round trips per month, but due to the unstable weather in Xisha, this schedule is not fixed. The exact sailing time is usually determined the night before sailing. For everyone on the island, all this has become normal, but it has a greater impact on people who travel to the island. Therefore, there are still very few people who come to Xisha for tourism purposes. Wenchang Qinglan Port is 184 nautical miles away from Yongxing Island, and the ship takes 15 hours to travel. Under normal circumstances, "Qiongsha No. 3" will choose to sail around 5 to 6 p.m., because the ship does not provide meals for passengers. In order to avoid the inconvenience of passengers eating on the ship, the ship allows passengers to have dinner in the evening We just got on the boat, and after getting on the boat, we can get to Woody Island after a short sleep. This can reduce the pain of seasickness for passengers, and can also reduce the chance of creating marine debris such as instant noodle bags and beverage bottles during the journey. At present, the "Qiongsha No. 3" ferry tickets are not sold to ordinary tourists. All people who want to go to Xisha can only set foot on Xisha in the name of an observer through a specific unit arrangement, and the inspector is only from China. citizen.