Kunming, China Travel Blogs

Kunming, the start of the journey
Jan 17, 2005 (2 photos)

... . I saw miles and miles of the stone formations that are so famous in Yunnan. They looked like grey barnacles encrusting the land. Kunming has been a pleasant city, as far as big cities go. The weather feels like early spring. Still a chill in the air, ...

Questioned in Kunming
Apr 28, 2005 (10 photos)

... we were invited to dinner by the owner and his friends (a really friendly bunch). The food in china has been fantastic, tasty and very cheap. Kunming was an excellent example...we found a streetside 'noodle cafe' packed with locals so we squeezed our ...

Nerdy Videos and Clay's thoughts
Apr 8, 2007

Last night we slept in a bus that was so full of cockroaches that the floor not only moved when you looked down, but it also crawled up onto your face. They ate through part of Jeff's backpack. Eventually you just have to give in and go to sleep because ...

The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
Sep 1, 2005 (1 photos)

... and meeting with leaders from the Yunnan Forestry Bureau, Conservation International, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming Institute of Zoology, and the China Exploration and Research Society. With these groups, we are hoping to have lasting and ...

Facial Topiary
Sep 10, 2006 (8 photos)

"You're gonna die now John!" -- Commando Kunming.... A city of four million people close to the southern border of China, that serves no real purpose other than to allow Tibet-Weary travellers to gorge on Big Macs before continuing south to Laos. ...

Drug catching cop
Jun 24, 2009

... , about the same time that a foreigner got given death for trafficking drugs in Guangzhou. ON a rumbling train from Kunming, Yunnan Province, to Shanghai, a middle-aged railway policeman in a blue uniform walks through the narrow aisles of crowded hard- ...

China Eastern back in Yunnan after pilot strikes
Oct 24, 2008

... Eastern was also fined 1.5 million yuan (US$219,507). On March 31 and April 1, 21 China Eastern flights returned to departure points at Kunming after taking off as pilots protested pay and working conditions. It stranded about 1,500 passengers at the ...

Pu'er tea tour - despite market crash for tea
May 12, 2009

... Institute and has sourced more than 100 teas from China. Hu Hao Ming, of Cha Ma Shi, is a successful producer of puer in China and helped set the provincial government's puer standards. The puer tea tour will run from July 6 to July 20 and costs $3,500 ...

New train coming Lijiang
Sep 14, 2009

... . Another source says that the journey between Kunming and Lijiang will take 10 hours because of multiple stops and the current Xiaguan-Kunming line being slower. And someone else said the prices would be more like 75 yuan for a hard seat and just under ...

Dwarf kingdom in Kunming
Nov 16, 2009

One of the new attractions just out of Kunming http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/world/2009/11/11/11713261.html

More dams faster built in Yunnan
Jan 23, 2009

... of developing dams Jiang Gaoming January 22, 2009 The new economic stimulus is encouraging hydropower development in southwest China, raising fears about the ecological and social costs. Jiang Gaoming reports. "When faced with a choice between ...

Kunming hostage saga with an unhappy ending
Dec 2, 2008

... taken hostage by a man wielding a knife. The man was killed by police after a five-hour standoff. According to Kunming media reports citing police sources Lu Zhiwen (陆志文), 39, had been having problems with his girlfriend. He began ...

Tunnels completed, but not railway line
May 30, 2009

... hazards and disasters. The old towns of Dali and Lijiang in the two cities are state historic and cultural sites and receive millions of domestic and foreign visitors every year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kunming.

Kunming and Beyond....
Mar 11, 2004 (2 photos)

... Banff (anyone who has been to the Banff hostel knows what I am talking about - there were no bar crawl nights organized by the Kunming hostel). So after a 30 hour train ride, Sarah and I weren't exactly eager to move on again. We took a day to wander ...

Is pu'er tea the new wine?
Jan 15, 2009

... , etc; but the fact that they gain value through storing gives them all a certain proximity with the banking activity. China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) is one of China's big four banks. Its Yunnan branch has teamed ...

New Chinese-Tibetan-English dictionary
Feb 16, 2009

... also provides users with information about Tibetan medicine, Tibetan Buddhism and folklore. As one of the oldest ethnic languages in China, The Tibetan language is more than 1,300 years old. The first Tibetan language dictionary came out in 1949, ...

Strange things in Yunnan
Sep 19, 2009

... will be the reverse. 11 - girls weear flowers all year round. Due to the benign climate, places like Kunming grow flowers all year round (and supply a lot of China and Asia with fresh blooms) 12 - woman and girls carry tobacco bags. You'll find a lot of ...

Netizens new force in China?
Feb 21, 2009

In the news this week the story about a man who died in custody in a Yunnan jail. The interesting thing is not his crime, but more how he died in jail and how his death is now under investigation. Li Qiaoming was in jail because of illegally felling ...

Local languages evolve in Yunnan
Apr 28, 2009

... academic interest. A new global listing just published in the US includes a staggering 30 languages 'discovered' in China by La Trobe University graduate researcher Dr Jamin Pelkey and La Trobe linguist, Associate Professor David Bradley. Eighteen ...

The digital divide
May 30, 2009

... Bin BT invests half a million pounds to help improve access and quality of education in remote and rural areas in China. BT has today launched a joint initiative with UNICEF which will bring modern technology to schools in poor rural areas of China ...

Where's my cheap consumer goods, comrade?
Dec 4, 2008

... urban centers. Those may be the best of intentions, but can Chinese farmers realistically afford to play along? China's National Bureau of Statistics says refrigerators and washing machines are among the least common appliances in rural homes. Many ...

African teacher wanted in Yunnan, China
May 17, 2009

teacher from Africa or Cameroon is wanted in Yunnan Recruiter School Contact info catherinelanbin@msn.cn Job location Yunnan, China Job description teacher from Africa or Cameroon is wanted in Yunnan if you like this job send me your CV ...

Aviation near misses in China - just one of many
Sep 21, 2008

... planes land and then are taken to a place off the runway where they discharge their passengers and reload. When you land at Kunming airport, more often than not, an airport car somehow meets your plane as it comes off the runway and speeds in front of ...

Update on storms, snow and floods in Yunnan
Nov 6, 2008

... reported. In Yunnan, the rainfall has hit 13 cities and prefectures in the centre of the province, including the capital Kunming, and sent torrents of mud and rock through villages, affecting 1.3 million people. In the northwest of the province, ...

More press freedom in Yunnan
Sep 8, 2009

... .  It was clear that people were longing for civil and legal discourse like a parched land longs for a rain shower. China has always been a country of etiquette and as such there has always been strict rules of conduct regarding how to treat others.& ...

Plans for a new land bridge between Asia & Europe
Nov 25, 2008

... underway to improve the transport connections in SE Asia, with calls for a southwest corridor of the Eurasian land-bridge, from Kunming in Yunnan to Kyaukpyu on the coast of Burma/Myanmar. Using existing rail networks - but adding new ones and changing ...

Day 56
Nov 9, 2006 (1 photos)

... looking forward to Laos. I switched buses on to my sleeper bus. A fellow traveller Frank had his bag stolen on a sleeper bus to Kunming so I ensured that my main bag was with me in the main compartment of the bus - not in the bowels of the bus. The bed ...

Pu'er tea for diabetic cure
May 30, 2009

... sugar level. The Chinese refer to such people as zui cha, or tea drunk. Sheng Jun reveals that Yunnan has one of China's best longevity rates and attributes this to tea drinking. "Moreover, as Yunnan has the lowest incidence of cancer, Pu'er city has ...

Yunnan aims to get more and more tourists
Feb 17, 2009

... , volunteers who helped China fight against those awful Japs in WWII. There's also the travel time, cut from 10 hours from Kunming to 50 minutes by plane. Not cheap though: "The 476-million-yuan (69 million U.S. dollars) Camel Peak Airport is able ...

Cycle ride in Yunnan
Aug 20, 2009

... bicycle race will be held in Yuxi next month. Vätternrundan China will start in downtown Yuxi – 90 kilometers south of Kunming – from where it will head toward Fuxian Lake. The race will circle Fuxian Lake and then return to Yuxi for a total of ...