Kunming Hotels - Comments and Reviews

We're now in Kunming, which is the capital of Yunnan the province south of Sichuan. The city again has a relaxed atmosphere and fantastic weather! As we came south down the west of China it's the first really warm place we've been to and it's great! It's surprising how much difference it makes. The city itself is nice and pretty trendy but doesn...

Well, it hasn't rained for a while. Nice fine sunny weather. Clear skies. Ideal really. Not like winter in most places, where it rains. And that's now a problem. It hasn't rained in Yunnan since November. Forest fires are breaking about everywhere. The other day a helicopter - a rare sight at 2400m - was seen with a monsoon bucket. Before that, ...

Kunming is the capital of Yunnan province. It's an ok city but it's more of a stopover kind of place. I only spent a couple of days in total while travelling backwards and forwards throughout Yunnan. Aside from really enjoying the Over the Bridge Noodles, a famous dish where you're given a load of ingredients and a hot bowl of soup and just thro...

Kunming is one of my favourite places I have visited in China. The nature was beautiful and the city had a nice feel to it even though there you see more poverty here than elsewhere in China. What might have also helped is the great climate, not as hot as for example Chengdu. I wasn't too impressed by The Stone Forest, although once you get away...

When I left you last I was getting ready to head out to Vietnam. I purchased a bus ticket to the border as the rail line expereinced landslides a year back and is still out of service. I arrived at the bus station and pushed through the fumes of desiel and smog to find my bus. It was being repaired when I boarded and the lady in charge showed my...

Written by Jesse We left Lhasa, Tibet on Friday by plane. We arrived in Zhongdian, China in the early afternoon on Friday. That night we got on a long-distance sleeper bus to Kunming, China. We arrived in Kunming Saturday morning. We've bought tickets to Bangkok, Thailand for Monday. We'll be flying China Eastern Airlines. We put the plans to go...