Expo Garden Kunming

Good to see someone acknowledged for trying to maintain their culture and heritage and language, and keep Lijiang free from trash, but how about the other players do their part - ie, schools, government, etc?<br><br>http://news.xinhuanet.com/e nglish/2009-11/15/content_12461399.htm< br><br>

... we arrived (the day our train was due to leave) they still had sleeper tickets available! So, never believe what you are first told!<br><br>SEPTEMBER 23rd<br>We were woken at around 7am by the most awful sounds of middle aged men regurgitating their phlegm and spitting it on the ground. This was by far the most disgusting train journey and we were ready to get out of China. With the amount of pollution in the cities, it is understandable that they all have ...

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... br>varieties of new super rice strains, and all have an average output<br>potential of 10.5 tonnes to 12 tonnes per hectare, said Bai Jinming,<br>head of the ministry's science and technology department. The rice output in China averages 7.1 tonnes per hectare, and the world's average ...

... his research on Naxi ancient pictographs. In his book, An Annotation of Ancient Naxi Pictographs, published by the Ethnic Publishing House last year, Naruo describes his 20 years of research as "lonely and happy", and his current life as "quiet and happy". The book, a collection of more than 800 pictograph words and almost 100 sentences, introduces the skills of "writing" and painting, and shows his oil paintings with the typical elements picked from the ...

... with arsenic last June. After inspection, local government found that the pollutant came from the Chengjiang Jinye Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. The company was ordered to close Sept. 17. Twelve people from the local government, including Chen Zhifen, a vice mayor of Yuxi City, were removed from their posts due to dereliction of duty last October. The local government is making efforts to improve water ...

... no swimming today but we paid to use their showers since neither of us have the guts to use our own (yes I'm a princess, but then so is Bob!). For me it was the best ten yuen I've spent yet. Mine was fantastic, warm and lovely, Bobs was tepid so he was cold and unhappy afterwards. The question is can we really live in a house where we cant use the shower?

... and ended up at this ultra expensive coffee lounge which actually made a proper cappacinno but it cost 20 yuan ($AUS5) half the cost of out whole meal just 4 doors away! Kim had picked up her bike nearby as she is going to cycle around Bangladesh and India from tomorrow and rode back to the Camellia, whilst the rest of us decided to walk back. Got home around 10.30pm.

... the owner is elated to see the rep from the washing machine company. He takes him to the kitchen and the washing machines are used to mix up the frothiest and tastiest lassis around. The tagline was HSBC is the local bank and knows the people wherever they are. Classic. I used my couple of days in relatively unintersting Kunming for some first class R&amp;R and blog updating, but ended up having a rewarding and unique experience. On Nov 6, I linked up with ...

... becomes a vicious cycle and the problem becomes rapidly more compounded as every time I focus on getting a fourth tone right I end up putting a slightly questionning voice on, as if asking for confirmation that I've finally got it right, which automatically makes it sound like a second tone all over again, aargh! Thankfully, the old favourite Chinese method of teaching where the student repeats everything multiple times after the teacher is being put to good ...