Economic Trade Hotel Yunnan Kunming

... Hoping to follow a group of elderly women uphill the other day, instead I never saw them again, as the agile creatures made off quickly uphill.

15 - trains go abroad but not inland. Yunnan used to have a line from Kunming to Hanoi in Vietnam built by the French, but with no connections to the rest of China. No so anymore, as now we are linked via Kunming.


16 - monks have love affairs - men can go to other Buddhist ...

... one book annually, watches one
drama per quarter and participates in one cultural activity twice a
month by 2010.
People in metropolitan areas may be hard pressed to imagine what a
poor cultural life people have in rural places. Critics who understand
rural China have lampooned the goal of “one book per capita per year”
as another “Great Leap ...

... Total revenue from
Puer tea exports declined by 14.5 percent to $36.8 million, but at the
same time exports of black tea and Oolong increased and green tea,
China's dominant export tea, continues to have robust overseas demand.

"We face fierce competition in the world's market. Countries like
Sri Lanka have also started to produce Puer tea," Zhang added. "To
expand worldwide ...

... but our time was too short to do some extensive province exploration of each place we went. After we finally left the restaurant we headed back to the theater. The movie was really good, and very international. They spoke English, Japanese, German and Chinese in the movie as it was about the rape of Nanking. If you get a chance to see it, I would recommend it, although it is very sad. We were also very frustrated because the Chinese ...

... and endangered creatures. Another very interesting visit in the park which was surprisingly deserted was to the fully grown giant adult panda enclosure. Here, the vast outdoor enclosures accomodate only one panda as they are solitary animals. Again we watched an adult slowly and methodically eating his bamboo. With the wood in one hand, he ripped off the outer bark and then proceeded to bite of chunks of the inner bark (can't imagine what it must be like to get splinters of that ...

... blend launched in China, which combines local and imported beans, will be available worldwide. But some people are questioning whether a country linked to contaminated food, tainted toys and dangerous additives can regain its reputation. One writer says this: The biggest problem with China in my opinion: the Communist government of the past century has all but obliterated the considerable agricultural wisdom of centuries, with farmers left not knowing how to nourish ...

 Woke up early at 6.30, we went down and had a buffet breakfast, not the best but OK. Kim gathered us together for our initial meeting at 9am and gave us the general run-down of what to expect. After the meeting she said she would take us on an optional walking tour which we all jumped at of course seeing as none of us would ...

... a lot more startled glances and shrieks of "laowai" and "hello" - it really did feel like a whole other world. I guess that not many westerners frequent that part of the city, and given their levels of surprise, it would seem that the inhabitants of the area really don't venture into central Kunming at all, despite the fact that it is a mere 1 mile away or so. On Saturday evening we decided to check out the Kundu district of ...

... be**. We ended up buying s*me little thing *f whiskey f*r 10rmb and drinking that with s*me grape juice while bums begged us f*r cigarettes and cleaned *ur sh*es. (The kara*ke birthday party did n*t meet my expectati*ns f*r ridicul*usness, s* I w*n't b*th** g*ing int* it.) I rented a bike in Kunming and r*de ar*und the city f*r a while, and f*und my way t* this big Buddhist temple. Th**e w**e t*ns *f little sh*ps selling incense and stuff, and I ...

... tempel. Vi fulgte de en en stund til det var på tide å skille lag. Etter å ha gått litt feil, fant vi et kart, og kom oss til Dragon Gate området. Vi begynte på vandringen opp de bratte trappene og de smale tunellene i fjellsiden. Ja nå skal det faktisk sies at vi aldri kom oss til toppen, men vi hadde en fantastisk tur forde. Når vi hadde opplevd nok snudde vi i håpet på å treffe de andre i bånn. Der var de ikke, så vi tok en taxi ned til Huating Temple, og satt der ...