Green Lake View Kunming

... npääsymaksut ovat kalliita <br>-vessat<br><br><br>Summa summarum: Maasta jäi kokonaisuutena positiivinen kuva ja haluan palata tänne vielä joskus uudestaan. Ensi kerralle jää ainakin rannikkokaupungit, joita ei ehditty näkemään tällä reissulla.<br><br>Kiina osioni päättyy tältä erää tähän. Samoin päätän tämän blogin kirjoittamisen. Matka jatkuu blogger sivuilla eli alkuperäisellä blogillani. Seuraavaksi Kaakkois-Aasia!<br>

... and armed with hand sanitizer we made our way out of the station.<br>Now, don't assume we're typical westerners who find the whole of Asia dirty. I have traveled around much of south east Asia and found the hygiene of local people to be fine. However, spitting in public and seeing children with open backed trousers so they can defecate on the side of the street - its just something that takes an awfully long time for you to get use to!<br>We arrived at a ...

... making of the Thangka is led by Baka, head<br>of the Qubin Tibetan Culture Institute in Yunnan Deqen Tibetan<br>Autonomous Prefecture. It takes 100 Tibetan artists four years to<br>finish. There are more than 1,800 buddhist characters in the roll,<br>telling ...

... hectare<br>for 6.7-hectare rice fields in Midu County of southwest China's Yunnan<br>Province. In these promotion rice fields, the<br>ministry is helping farmers breed such super rice with the assistance<br>of various technologies, such as more scientific fertilizing methods<br>and ...

... ancient texts. Almost 1,000 sentences he collected are not included. He plans to publish more books when he has enough money, but he won't sell them. "I give them to my friends who really like Naxi culture. I think it's a better way to spread Naxi culture," he says. His simply-decorated and barely-furnished apartment near the campus is full of painting materials. Almost 20 pairs of shoes are lined up in the corridor next to the door. "It's convenient for me ...

... of trying to read dodgy maps and street signs in chinese characters. You soon start to understand why people are cycling and riding mopeds the wrong way down streets! Eventually found the correct building after a while. SCH Office is on the 'mythical' 24th floor (as Ross calls it) of a modern tower block on Qungnian Lu. The elevators only go to the 22nd floor so I get out at the top of the elevator and go to the top of the stairs and then at the end of the ...

... I am still surprised that most drinks cost between 10 and 30 yuen (1-3 pounds), fine for me but quite a lot for a cup of tea for locals. The hotpot is usually 50 -100 (5-10pounds). I also noticed that in Carrefour a lot of items were the same price as they are in the UK, especially cleaning detergents and home supplies, I did expect things to be a lot cheaper in China and they are not.

So, now down to my last 3 days of school in Kunming. As such I thought I'd write down a few of my impressions about the city where I've spent the past 3 months. While I initially raved about the fact the Spring City moniker related to how spring-like the city was in contrast to Chinese weather, it seems that we have now got to weather of more British spring like proportions. Still British spring on a good, dry day, but it has ...

... on Daniel Craig as the new Bond. Given the Chinese subtitles, we would react before the audience and for the few scenes in Spanish and other languages, the Chinese would laugh before we did. It was definitely an interesting movie theater experience. Nov 7 reinvigorated me and really expanded my experience in China as I met and hung out with a few Chinese people. I woke up in my dorm room to meet Yen Bin, who is studying English in Kunming, so that he may go ...

... though I can't be entirely sure any more whether I am actually hearing it constantly, or whether the tune is just stuck in my head and still going round, despite no road cleaners being anywhere nearby! So, I have successfully survived the first week of four hour classes, and stacks of homework (mostly copying out characters multiple times to try and drill them into my head as well as learning tons of vocab and attempting to write sentences) and it is ...