Binglang Ethnic Village, Hainan, China

4Pauline 5:00 PM Dec 28, 2019

Good show
Car park was labelled in alphabets. We remembered our alphabet but we couldn't remember how to get to our car park as there was no car park map! There are many different type of tickets that you can purchase at the counter. Must read carefully or ask the person who's selling the tickets. If you are a local from Hainan Island with the ID card from the island, then you're eligible to pay the "child" ticket price. We wanted to have a ticket including lunch which was the bamboo rice lunch, but I thought it was the buffet lunch so I bought this ticket and then realized that it was the wrong type of ticket. Just purchasing tickets were very confusing..... There were also many restaurants that offer the different type of tickets purchased for lunch! We were very confused! We finally found our restaurant and it was big, but the buffet was not quite. The food was more vegetarian dishes and people rushed to get as much as they could. That's when I really regretted I got the wrong tickets! After you finish eating, you must clear your table, putting the tray back and recycle your waste or throw as regular trash, etc. which I think was a great idea! You cannot choose your seats for the show as they are pre-marked. Once you enter the show area, and find that you don't like where your seats are, you can upgrade by paying an extra RMB45 to upgrade to the VIP section which is right in front of the stage. We had seats that were not too far back but had a pillar which sort of blocked our view. I sat by the aisle so I could take pictures. Show was interesting. The whole village was very informative. There were some women showing how they weave. There was a part of the museum where you cannot take photos. The gift shop was worth looking around. Things were quite expensive. We enjoyed it as a whole.

4TravelingCat22 5:00 PM Feb 16, 2019

Informative museums and a great show
A very nice park to learn more about the Li culture (and a little bit about the Miao). I regretted that pricing was explained in Korean and Russian but not English, not customer friendly! Package 2 gets you entrance, show, and little carts (220 RMB, about $33). Besides this, we were lucky to find an English-speaking guide ($22). You don't have to take one but we wanted to avoid wasting time (without guide, count an hour more, and add more time if you don't take the carts but walk). The tiny Li museums are very informative. The weaving grandmothers were very skilled and cute. The show is about an hour and grandiose. For seats, avoid A and F if you can, D is in the center. Beyond row 3, it's harder to see since VIP are already on rows 1-3, you would be at row 4-6 to see well. Light information is provided in English there about each dance.