Green Land Kunming

Halloween, Tamika's KTV-birthday and -as promised- Happy Noodle Man are only a part of ife here, but probably one of the more important parts. To be continued soon with pictures of my fam on the scooter (now that everyone has a helmet), Baozi and street-BBQ. And hopefully some Kungfu ...

... well run hostel called the Hump and booked our tickets to Laos straight away. The 24hour sleeper bus cost 35pound each and was due to leave at 5pm the next day.<br>We decided to wonder around Kunming - another typical Chinese city - with a busy bird and flower market.<br><br>SEPTEMBER 24th<br><br>After a morning and day of not much - we were almost out of Chinese rmb and didn't want to change anymore, we made our way to the bus station. We were shown to our coach ...

... long buddism tales and history stories.<br><br>See it at http://chinatibet.people.com.cn/6713069 .html<br>SavedURI :Hide URLdata:text/html;charset=utf-8,%3C!DOC TYPE%20HTML%20PUBLIC%20%22-%2F%2FW3C%2F %2FDTD%20HTML%204.01%2F%2FEN%22%20%22ht tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org ...

... disease- and insect-prevention technologies, to increase<br>output. The ministry said it is making<br>plans (2011-2015) to develop 30new super rice strains by 2015 and to<br>have 10 million hectares of rice fields cultivated with such<br>high-yielding strains. Rice is the staple food ...

... there it is SCH-China. This process brings my student days at Sheffield flooding back where Architecture students would have to go to the top of the lifts also stopping two floors short and then catch the paternoster lift to the Architecture department at the top of the building (put there as the architects designed the building who only discovered when it was too late that the top floors could not be insured as the fire brigade could not reach them). Ross is ...

We found a second hand market, it was a weird place, some kind of building had been demolished in the middle of the market and no one bothered to clean up the debris, so to walk about from stall to stall you had to clamber over scrap building materials, god knows what it was, concrete, asbestos? Who knows, but we did score a couple of bicycles. We bought them for 15pounds, we got locks too. Then we went ...

... gone cold here. Not drastically cold - it still gets up to about 15 degrees C outside in the sun, but unfortunately the fact that it hardly ever gets too cold means that none of the buildings have any heating. As such, my room at night becomes an icecube as the clear December air 1900m above sea level is remarkably chilly. Still, most days have clear blue sky and sun, so I can't really complain and hearing about snow ...

... University in Canada. He was a really nice guy and incredibly diligent and hard working. He comes from a small town in Yunnan with 30,000 people where you can rent an apartment for only 50RMB a month (just over $7). I soon came to realize that just as every other Indian in internet cafes is getting MSFT and CSCO certified, many Chinese (particularly younger ones) are voraciously trying to learn English. It was awesome as as I asked Yen(surname is first, given ...

... to say that I have definitely not had to put in this much work since my time at school. Thankfully though learning Chinese is proving much more fun than the grim days of GCSE physics etc and the time seems to be flying by. Kunming seems to be a pretty good choice of city to spend my time in. It is known as the City of Eternal Spring and its climate is famed across China as one of the most pleasant. Despite being situated right down in the far south west ...