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Kunming Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kunming
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Kunming Jin Jiang Hotel
172 reviews -
Empark Grand Hotel Kunming
451 reviews
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Harbour Plaza Kunming
212 reviews
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Golden Dragon Hotel Kunming
113 reviews
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Green Lake Kunming
412 reviews -
Hna Kunming
66 reviews -
Kai Wah Plaza International Hotel Kunming
176 reviews
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Kunming Hotel
168 reviews
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Bank Kunming
171 reviews
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Dianchi Garden Hotel And Spa Kunming
116 reviews
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Expo Garden Hotel (Si Bo Hua Yuan) Kunming
96 reviews
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Green Land Kunming
132 reviews
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Jintai Hotel Kunming
23 reviews
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Weilong Hotel Kunming
43 reviews
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Mandarin Hotel Yunnan Kunming
21 reviews
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Horizon Hotel Kunming
203 reviews
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Sakura Hotel Kunming
109 reviews
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Guan Du Hotel Kunming
73 reviews
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Dynasty International Kunming
43 reviews
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Rosy Road Century Hotel Kunming
20 reviews
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Green Lake View Kunming
107 reviews
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Enjoying International Hotel Kunming
30 reviews -
Baoshan Hotel Kunming
34 reviews
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Hai Tian Kunming
45 reviews
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Yunnan Tailonghongrui Hotel Kunming
14 reviews
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Xiong Ye International Hotel Kunming
39 reviews
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Jinhua Internaional Hotel Kunming
55 reviews
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Yijing Garden Hotel Kunming
21 reviews
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Brilliant Resorts & Spa Kunming
23 reviews
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Economic Trade Hotel Yunnan Kunming
51 reviews
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Royal Garden Hotel Kunming
29 reviews
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Conference Resort Kunming
95 reviews
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Spring City Inn - Machinery Hotel Kunming
85 reviews
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Yunnan Zhenzhuang Guest House Kunming
39 reviews
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Silver Sky Kunming
9 reviews
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Hai Kun Hotel Kunming
17 reviews
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Kunming Donghuang Hotel
12 reviews
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Longteng Hotel Kunming
22 reviews
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Spring Spa Hotel Dianchi Kunming
19 reviews
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Yun Liang Golden Spring Hotel Kunming
15 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Kunming, China
Questioned in Kunming
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Kunming, the start of the journey
This is a top pick! ... . 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, ...
Facial Topiary
This is a top pick! "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 ...
Kunming and Beyond....
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Day 56
This is a top pick! ... really 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. ...
Day 55
This is a top pick! ... get my bearings and have a look at the city. In size it's comparable with Chengdu but Chengdu seemed cleaner and more affluent, though Kunming is famous for it's laid-back pace. I didn't like the idea of arriving in new cities alone and taking time to ...
Landing on planet China
This is a top pick! ... we eat or buy things or basically do anything, a small group of locals will often gather around and laugh at us. Kunming is a large, modern city (well the centre is anyway) with a population similar to Sydney's. There are skyscrapers, massive hotels, ...
Drug catching cop
This is a top pick! ... story, 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 ...
China Eastern back in Yunnan after pilot strikes
This is a top pick! ... China 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 ...
Pu'er tea tour - despite market crash for tea
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
New train coming Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... . 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... nurse 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 ...
Tunnels completed, but not railway line
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Is pu'er tea the new wine?
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
New Chinese-Tibetan-English dictionary
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Yunnan delights
This is a top pick! ... the edge of the 'barbarian' mountainous areas it was a place of exile for political offenders during Mao's enlightened years. Kunming improved its image vastly with many deportees preferring its relaxed pace to their crowded east-coast cities, refusing to ...
Strange things in Yunnan
This is a top pick! ... 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?
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Local languages evolve in Yunnan
This is a top pick! ... more than 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. ...
The digital divide
This is a top pick! ... 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?
This is a top pick! ... subsidy include those new $US99 laptops from HK/China? Here's one piece about it, with comments from readers of China Journal: Subidized Appliance Program for Chinese Farmers: Will it Work? China's government this week expanded a pilot program ...
African teacher wanted in Yunnan, China
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Update on storms, snow and floods in Yunnan
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... enough. 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 ...
Plans for a new land bridge between Asia & Europe
This is a top pick! ... are 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 ...