Baoshan Hotel Kunming

... money out, we booked our ticket to nanning and then had to mill around until 3pm when our train left for nanning. <br><br>we arrived in nanning at about 5am and found our hostel easily, this one was £5 a night which compared to the £1.50 we have been spending the rest of the time it was pretty expensive, but they sorted out the visas for Vietnam there so it wasn't all bad. <br>we had a look around the city, which, to be ...

... Dwivedi said, 'It is recorded that many Indian scholars were<br>invited by the ruling houses of Tibet. Of these, the guru<br>Padmasambhava, Sant Rakshita and Dipamkara Atisa were famous. King<br>Sron-tsan-Gampo (600 AD-627 AD) sent his minister Sambhota with 16<br>companions to Varanasi in eastern India. They were instructed to devise<br>a written language for Tibet by adopting Sanskrit alphabets,' she said.<br><br> <br><br>Even now, arrival of ...

... of local Red Guards. In<br>May 1969 he and other members of his family were arrested. Four years<br>later he was condemned to death. He was by then an old man of sixty-six.<br>Wang Zhiming was executed on 29 December 1973 at a mass rally of<br>more than 10,000 people. Immediately afterwards the crowd broke into<br>confusion ...

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... have disappeared and many young Naxi people no longer speak the language or wear the traditional clothes, Naruo said. Naruo believes few artists now have the patience to spend the time drawing common people. "I drew the people after living with them for two months, so I had enough time to watch and understand them." He plans to keep the paintings to himself: "I don't want to change them for money. I paint them not for business." He says modern society is ...

... You won't see the chips," he said. "It'll help us better manage the animals, especially endangered animals." Zookeepers began implanting the chips Monday and are expected to finish by June, Li added. The Yunnan park has more than 10,000 animals from more than 110species. The State Forestry Administration has ordered all zoos to implant chips in 17 species, including tigers, lions, elephants, giant pandas, bears, golden monkeys, cranes and swans.

The fireworks are still going mad. We haven't been out in 2 saturdays in a row which finally caught up with us. With new year excitement in the air we boldly set out to get drunk. At the first bar (no name) we met a nice young chap called Virgil. He cleverly approached us with "would you please do me a favor and drink this beer for me, I've had too much". He was interesting enough for this not too not feel like the usual English practice, he freely admitted he was only 16 ...

The remaining four of us met up with Kim for breakfast and said our farewells and then we met our mini-bus to the Stone Forest at 9am. A two hour drive (120 kms) there and we had four hours to wander around and have some lunch. The whole park is beautifully set out and the rocks are truly magnificent, certainly worthwhile making the day trip out there. Typically there were lots of souvenir stalls etc but once you got ...

... le temple d'or. Ce temple est en haut d'une colline, donc la montee a ete plutot rude, mais cela valait vraiment le coup. Le temple est dans une foret, et les chinois y vont passer leur dimanche (c'est tres tranquille comme endroit), pour jouer au mah jong, ou encore chanter et danser. Pour le retour, nous sommes passes par un marche situe dans un dedale de petites ruelles, puis sommes alles a carrefour chinois ...

Ni hao from the City of Eternal Spring. I landed in Kunming last weekend, and so thought it was time for an update on how life is treating me so far. The trip out here was relatively un-eventful, the main highlight being coming in to land in Hong Kong. Although the Hong Kong airport is now located on an outlying island, fairly recently reclaimed from the sea, and the approach is probably not as dramatic as in days gone by when the airport was tucked in amongst ...