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Kunming Slideshow
Kunming
Travel Blogs from Kunming, China
Last day of the tour
... our room reciepts checked many times and a woman come and write notes about us in a book we're finally left alone. In the morning we get a taxi to the bus station and get a bus to Kunming - the rest of our old Intrepid group also get on the same ...
Having a Bad China Day!
... they are too dangerous to go on a plane. After all, they are made of plastic!!!! You see, the security guards at Kunming airport decided plastic scissors are an offensive weapon. To be fair they nearly were when in irritation I threw them a little ...
FIXED ITINERARIES AND FRUSTRATIONS
We arrived in Kunming around 7 PM. Kunming is in the Yunnan province in southwest China, near Tibet. This is really the first stop during our trip through China where I feel like we have gotten off the tourist path. It is true that Guilin, our last stop, ...
On the trains
... fortunate you are to witness this, first hand. After my talk with "joe" the other day in Tiananmen Square I wonder if China is really the "powderkeg" he described as the corruption runs rampant and the gap between rural and urban people in this country ...
Lazy days.
Hi, We are now in Kunming, a city with some very tasty noodles and lots of little dogs walking around by themselves. We have had a pretty lazy day today. Didn't get much sleep last night as we took the sleeper bus from Lijiang. The bus is decked ...
The H5N1 Express
... a report and cancelling bank cards and doing all those necessary things that one gets to do where robbed overseas. I am writing this now from Kunming as I wait for emergency cash and cards to make their way to my hotel. I should be here a week. I am ...
The long trek back to HK
... Safe to say we had our fair share of brewhini’s and delicious rice wine for the trip though. From there we hopped a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, then the train to the Hong Kong boarder, then the KTR to Kowloon Tong, then the brutal hike up that ...
mini-visit to Kunming, City of Eternal Spring
... to anymore. I felt like I should spread my arms and spin around in a circle. It was just... so... open. Weeeirrrrd. Kunming has a big pedestrian boulevard in the middle of the city, maybe 1/2 km wide and 3km long, that is closed to ...
The past unearthed
... ; After the stone we visited the Golden Temple on our way back to the hotel. Dinner in the hotel restaurant was exceptional . famous Kunming one bridge noodles and Yunnan duck. Only the Chinese know how to cook duck. So now its bed and evening flight to ...
change of plans
... a bunch of cities to try to get a train ticket for. The only one that I could reserve on time was Kunming, in Southern China near Vietnam and stuff. I didn't know anything about Kunming, but I bought the train ticket anyways. The train ...
Oooopss.....early??!
We arrived 5 hours later in Kunming and contemplated how we were going to get across kunmings spaghetti junction to the train station.....we found a partially flooded subway (don't worry someone had thoughtlfully provided stepping stones) across/under one ...
in transit
In transit, so Kunming doesn't really count. We flew in from Lhasa and just jumped on the bus to Dali. Remember: it's not a trip to China until your bus stops at a Friendship Store in the middle of absolute ...
America the Beautiful and the Women of China
... is something that is difficult to get used to. With a booming international tourist industry you would think that the people of China have seen enough foreigners to be nonchalant about encountering one on the sidewalk. Think again. No matter how hard you ...
Made it to Yunnan
After a 36 hour train ride im in the yunnan province, specifically kunming city. It felt so good to have a hot shower here in my hostel. I only have 10 days to explore this diverse province before my visa expires. I did i hike recently that was a ...
Kunming: First full day
... much- yummy watermelon for breakkie and then we went to get chinese phones/sims.. never been so stared at in my life! In china mobile about ten shop assistants were crowded around us, none of whom could speak chinese! but im proud with how well we ...
Passing Kunming
Hello all, der Flug ist gut in Kunming angekommen, die Maschine war nur zu 33% belegt. Ich habe beschlossen, erst einmal Laos zu machen, so dass ich dann weiss, wieviel Zeit ich fuer Yunnan habe (ausserdem muss ich meinen Flug reconfirmen, also ...
Lijiang to Jinghong via Kunming
... bus stop at the start of Beijing Rd, from here you can get buses north and into town. To the Vietnamese Consulate: From Kunming Main Station look north, straight up Beijing Road and you’ll see the Kai Wah International Plaza Hotel. Head for this ...
The End of an Empire
... the Camila and we had a big buffet breakfast and I started thinking about making my way to Lijiang and Dali. Hanging around Kunming with Amir, playing chess and talking to people I heard about Lijiang and Dali having even worse weather, rain AND cold... ...
Kunming...and going
... we had managed to find a western supermarket before this trip where bread is bread and sugar is reserved for non-savoury food. Kunming is fairly nondescript and really only notable as a transport hub. We did root out the "bird and flower ...
Leaving China
... (zB auch vom Koenigreich Dali), daher gibt es wenig richtig altes. Die letzten 20 Jahre waren dann ziemlich schlimm, Kunming hat heute 4 Millionen Einwohner (vermutlich auch irgendeine Minoritaet hier, aber die fallen nicht auf, 99% Han Chinesen) und ...
Luksusta elamaan
...eli suihku, pyykkikone, internet ja sanky, jossa on patja. Valilla pitaa reissaajankin levata, vaikka me ollaan oltu kylla siina tosi huonoja. Lhasata lahdon jalkeen ollaan vietetty kaks kertaa kaks yota putkeen samassa paikassa, jos telttailuja ei ...
There's no time!
... to see in the city, but it was so pleasant that we had to spend time there. I had my greatest beggar exxxperience in Kunming. A beggar child snuck up behind me (didn't hear the *thumpathumpathump*) and then he put his hand in front of me and simply began ...
Finally in China
... with their normal lives, expressing either indifference or mild bewilderment to their presence. Uneventful bus journey to Kunming. The Chinese spit everywhere, smoke on buses, yell and seem to have few manners (in the Western ...
Ni Hao China!
... seen again! We jumped on our bus to Kunming still in a daze at the mornings events, but very much enjoying China. The trip to Kunming was twelve hours, during which time we read, dozed and looked out the window at the amazing scenery... which ...