Bank Kunming

so after staying for a few days in Dali we made our way back to Kunming on the 19 hour train where we were sat with a baby and a toddler which made the journey more interesting. this train was particularly stinky as everyone had taken their shoes off. <br><br>when we were in Kunming we had a bit of a panic because our cards wouldn't work in the ATM's during the night (we arriver at 5am) but once the banks opened we were able to ...

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... creativity is to sustain the culture of his people in a rapidly modernizing world. Since retiring as an art teacher at Beijing's Minzu University in 2008, his major works have been based on more than 200 figure drawings, which he drew 30 years ago in a village of Dayan. All his figures wear traditional Naxi clothes, their faces tranquil: a shy young girl sitting near a hen roost, an old lady spinning and young man shouldering a hoe. Many of the traditions ...

... Administration, contain each animal's name, age, gender, species, birth date and birthplace, blood type and DNA information, said Li Youlong, head of the Animals Management Department with the Yunnan Wild Animals Park. The chips will be injected into the necks, ear roots or tail roots of about 200 animals that are under Class A or B state-level protection in the zoo, such as Siberian tigers, African lions, hoolock gibbons and black swans, Li ...

... are two open pipes that need to be connected and if you dont join them together in time the water comes gushing out). Anyway I started imagining how nice it could be in there if all the pipes were covered with plastic ivy. Later on when I left the house I found a bunch of plastic roses by the trash, lucky me!

... are the only westerners in sight and we don't speak mandarin. If we say hello or OK, people mimic us and laugh. For example, when we were in the stone forest we were talkng about how funny it is when the locals say hello just because we are there and I said "Next time we should just say 'ok hello'" and this Chinese lady passing by us said 'ok hello' in front of us. We burst out in laughter. We caught the bus back to Kunming and went to the airport to fly to Chengdu.

... Nous avons facilement trouve l'auberge, en plein centre ville, qui est vraiment sympa, avec son bar et sa terrasse ensoleillee. Nous sommes ensuite partis explorer un peu la ville, en passant par les arteres commercantes pour rejoindre un marche, puis un parc et un temple bouddhiste. 2eme jour : Petit dejeuner tranquille sur la terrasse ensoleillee de l'auberge, puis nous avons loue des velos et sommes partis ...

... to the bus station..... all the buses are full until tommorrow! We had a flight booked on the 17th, so we were gutted that we were going to loose a day at the gorge. Then, a young lad comes up behind us asking if we want a lift to the gorge, and after Helen asking him if he was safe, and not planning on killing us, we agree a price and this lad takes us all the way to the hostel that we wanted to stay in at the gorge. It turns out he worked at a hostel a little further down the gorge.