The question we all want to know - who blew up the buses in Kunming? Was it Tibetans? Was it Muslims? Was it rubber workers who had been rioting? Chinese media have gone silent on the question. But Western media are running this story: Group threatens Olympics terror, claims bus bombings Reuters | Saturday, 26 July 2008 A group calling itself th...

An apt name for Kunming, the city of "eternal spring", at least at the moment of my visit here, has had stunningly flawless weather. Jesse and I have been here, in the capital of Yunnan province, for the past four nights. Even with the weather this fantastic (hovering around what feels like 85 F during the day an 70 at night, with clear sun, blu...

J arrive en fin d apres midi a Kunming, capitale de la province de Yunnan, 4 millions d habitants. Je suis trop fatigue pour aprecier que les gens me sautent dessus a ma sortie du bus, surtout que je ne comprends pas un traitre mot de ce qu ils me racontent et je ne le saurais jamais. Enfin, pour dire, que je me dis immediatement que je ne vais ...

Kunming was fun but a day and a half was all we allotted for the city so we must be on our way further west to the town of Lijiang. This time our mode of transportation would be a sleeper bus, another new experience for me. I've taken buses and I've taken sleeper trains, but I failed to see how the two could merge. My first impression of the bus...

We had to go to Kunming to get our Vietnam visas (though this could have been done in Nanning - but we didn't know that at the time). We opted to fly, and avoid the 26 hour hard sleeper. We stayed at The Hump hostel, an ok place, with flying jackets on the walls belonging to the Flying Tigers, Chinese pilots who fought against the Japanese in WW...

We bought tickets for the overnight train trip from Nanning to Kunming the evening before when we had arrived in Nanning. We were concerned about being able to get what they call hard sleeper tickets on such short notice. Please see photos of what a hard sleeper is. I had never seen a sleeper car up close before and all I knew was that there wou...

Who is China? As China rapidly develops and people are moving from the countryside to urban areas, large cities such as Kunming become melting pots for a wide variety of Chinese people. Surviving in the city is often difficult, with many people living with little income. Jobs such as shoe shiners, sidewalk salesperson, and recyclers who dig thr...

The overnight train to Kunming was good. The hard sleeper carriage is comprised of bunk beds with 3 tiers with no curtains for privacy or to block out the light. I managed to get a good nights sleep although the carriage was not air-conditioned and cigarette smoke occasionaly wafted through the carriage. I managed to find a nice hostel, 'The Hum...

2004.11.17 (ŽO) ☁ We arrived in Kunming (Ť©–ľ) at around 4:30pm, and took a taxi to town. I was busy calling different inns on the way from the airport to town, and finally found a place. We were then stuck in a traffic jam for a long time. So long that we started to suspect that the taxi driver was doing it on purpose to squeeze a few mor...