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Kunming Slideshow
Kunming
Travel Blogs from Kunming, China
Things are starting to heat up now baby
This is a top pick! ... the entirety of Beijing and Qingdao combined I reckon. It would seem this is the place to go if you want a pizza in China. Plus have discovered that Kunming has some of the best DVD shops in China. We are in bliss. Ironically, the best one (pedalling its ...
Minority villages and Stone Forest
Yesterday I visited a comercialised ethnic minority village park, where I saw a portrait of ethnic minority life, as under a microsope. It was interesting, the peoples were genuine, and the dances, costumes, and good for sale were genuine, however it ...
A flying Visit
... disgusting flemming sound you have heard and then spit every time as well which seemed a tad excessive. At 7.30am we arrived in Kunming although not at the bus station we were expecting we thought we would arrive at the central bus station next to the ...
Kunming for a third time
Third visit here. Could not really go anywhere as it was a national holiday week in China and all forms of transport were booked out. Oh well. Though one good thing is that one new nightclub had a special deal for foreigners. Each foreigner received ...
Ni Hao from China
After a small mistake made in Hong Kong, I made it to Kunming without mishap albeit 2 days later than I expected. I had a great day today wandering around the city. I have lots of pics but I just spent 15 minutes trying to upload like 5 of them and it ...
Kunming dag 1!
5u 's ochtends komen we in Kunming aan(altitude: 1980 m, temperatuur: dag:20+/nacht 10+) eerder zelfs dan onze Westerse reizigers. Een jonge taxichauffeur rent naar ons toe. We stappen in de auto en vragen of hij ons naar Cloudland Hostel wilt brengen. ...
kunming
... , although she was amazed at my white hairs on my arms and rather big hooter which she said was nice. hahahaha....so from kunming i got onto my chinese sleeper bus and made the horrible bumpy journey to hekou on the border and arrived at 7am in the ...
After the conference, what next?
... I have been blown away by the conversations, possibilities, and options for the future, both near future and distant. I think I will stay in Kunming for one more day, taking in all that I have heard, and whilst I do I will try to visit the Stone Forest ...
A Familiar Place
... I last visited over 6 years ago. Kunming is one of the fastest growing cities in China. A business and cultural center for Yunnan province, Kunming enjoys a mild climate and laid back atmosphere. Much of the city has certainly changed ...
Across the bridge
We have arrived in Kunming in Yunnan province. It is a bit of a hole! We are to apply for our Vietnamese visas, while we are waiting we will go to one of the surrounding towns which are much nicer! Yunnan is known as the spring state as it ...
Kunming
... North-West to Lijiang?B The train ride here from Chengdu had the most amazing scenery?C and also about 200 hundred tunnels?B Kunming seems to be a lot more laid back compared to other Chinese cities?B There seems to be some sense of urban planning ...
Happy Birthday
... but when Vanessa burst into song i was left with no choice but to join in, so at 8.30 am on a Wednesday Morning in a McDonalds in Kunming we were sat singing happy birthday to a lad called Ho we had know for 30 seconds. As soon as we finished he shook our ...
Yunnan Trip: Kunming
... started with a lovely 5am ride to the airport. I hardcore passed out on the plane though, so it was alright. We landed in Kunming, Yunnan Province, and had the day free. Kunming is awesome if only for the fact that I could walk around outside in just a ...
KunMings
... style and was quite the romantic setting. It was very quiet at 8.30pm though, and we learned the next night that actually Kunming eats dinner much earlier at 6pm. Our time in Kunming was mostly spent travelling the 145 bus route back and forth ...
My last stop in China
Yunnan is beautiful!! I love it :) I'm now traveling alone again, but i'll have a new travel buddy soon :D in a few days a should meet with Brendan, a guy from Australia i met in Ulaan ...
Kunming
... once you're here, its not as if the people are opressed or anything. Anyway thats the first thing that I noticed about China. Secondly, Kunmings wicked. Its a well spread out city. A Dutch girl I met even said it reminded her of Berlin. There seems ...
Wind roach and gooselips
... . If you find an Australian called Peter wandering lost and celebrating his 60th birthday, please send him home to Queensland. Kunming has, over the last few decades, been completely destroyed and rebuilt. We met one Chinese girl who cried on ...
Visions of China
... batik factory where we witnessed the manufacturing process of this fabric representative of this region. Kunming marked the final dot on our map of China, a rather unremarkable large city, nevertheless our leap-pad into Laos where new ...
Here Comes the Sun
Herättyämme aamulla 10 aikaan junasta joka saavuttaisi Kunmingin noin tunnin kuluttua ulkona ei näkynyt aluksi mitään muuta kuin sankkaa sumua ja hiljainen pettymys möyri mahassa. Eräs kiinalainen kuitenkin onneksi sanoi että olemme tällä ...
OMG ! KUNMING
... sleep at all so she kept watch (just in case). Suddenly we could see a city in the distance and we assumed this was Kunming , it appeared like a Satellite city, out in the middle of nowhere, but impressive in size and infrastructure non the less. As ...
A Trip South to Kunming
... I had Jack (one of our program's assistants) help me create an itinerary and we originally planned to go to Kunming(昆明), Dali(大理), Lijiang(丽江) and then Shangrili la(香格里拉). Two students ...
Ice, Cipro & the 3 Traumas of the Chinese Hospital
... up Renmin Lu. While my roommate headed straight for the massive chocolate croissants, I headed for the coffee counter. China is a tea drinking society, and though coffee has started to catch on in some places, it is rarely up to par ...
Back in Kunming for one night
... had been in Ruili, yet also how loved I had been for the first time since arriving in China. Father is truly a great companion. Being in Kunming again was great, civilisation and interesting conversation. Just down the road from the hotel at which ...
Kunming 2
... trip that went way over budget and the impending break up of my relationship, I wasn't in the best of moods coming back to Kunming at midnight and finding out not only was Cloudland (the hostel I stayed in last week) was fully booked! In my 3 nights ...
The second half
... as Tibet and Nepal, and I'm soaking it all in. One person that I learned stuff from I met in unique circumstances as I was leaving Kunming. I had just bought a ticket for a train to Dali, but unfortunately the one I wanted was full so I had to get a ...
Back in China
... zurueck nach Kunming reisen werde (i.e. 3-6h Busse, keine Nachtbusse mehr, vermutlich). Bin morgens hier angekommen, China ist eine Stunde vor Laos, Kunming liegt aber fast westlich von Vientiane, es wird hier morgens erst sehr spaet hell (nach 7), ...
There's no PC in the PRC -Prabhjyot
After a day on the sleeper train Sukriti and I found ourselves in trouble at Kunming Station. We had arranged for the hostel to pick us up but our phones had died so we had no idea where to wait and it had been nearly an hour. We decided to get a taxi ...
Day of the Dog
... hesitance to spend money and in part to the haphazard orientation (to my unexperienced eye anyway) of Chinese shops. No matter, again Kunming proved to be a lovely city to explore. The day was not totally wasted - Deniz stumbled upon an arcade, and ...
Night Bus
Kunming was fun but a day and a half was all we allotted for the city so we must be on our way further west to the town of Lijiang. This time our mode of transportation would be a sleeper bus, another new experience for me. I've taken buses and I've taken ...