Kunming Government Resorts - Comments and Reviews

Eight days holiday, there must be a meaningful way to spend them. The plans to go to a recoverers' village for the workshop (in order to make it a workcamp at the same time) were cancelled because of my favourite reason of the year: H1N1. Actually understandable (it would not be good if we gave the swineflu to the village) but still annoying aft...

Just when we thought we were losing species every day . . . . Animal experts have reported finding a male hog deer in the wild in Yunnan province. They said the discovery offers new hope about the animal once thought to be gone from China forever. Li Xiaoping, director at the Yongde Nature Reserve, said he and his team found the male animal in a...

From the strange but true file: Drivers feel the heat in stay-awake bid POLICE in south-west China have started serving drivers raw chillis at service stations to stop them falling asleep at the wheel. According to traditional Chinese belief, people often feel sleepy in the spring. Most of the drivers are from Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces...

I haven't been able to post pictures yet but hopefully soon~! I had serious culture shock the first couple days! But I am now beginning to feel more at ease. Things I like so far: ~ Learning about a different culture ~ Exploring a completly different world ~ Food in HK ~ Shopping in HK ~ Kind people who I've met ~ The currency! ~ Probiotics and ...

When you're travelling, unfortunate things happen, it's inevitable. You have to be philosophical, put it down to experience, take the rough with the smooth, pick yourself up and dust yourself down and trot out every other cliché on the subject that you can think of. Leaving Dali, I had one of those days where it felt like the entire Chinese nati...