Kunming
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Nov 01, 2005
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Nov 01, 2006
Kunming,
Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Kunming again
So Kunming proved yet again to be a great place to take a break from traveling.
Most of my time was spent in the hostel, much of it in bed, and of course eating.
Kunming is a bit of a cross roads for travelers and I met up with some really cool people that I met earlier on my travels and a load of new people too.
The best of times!
We even met up with the police man we met the last time who treated us to even more meals out. Specialities such as ducks tonge, and cow stomach included.
He explained to us how a police mans income in China was so small that they had to have "other buisness" to supliment their income, and that keeping track of who to give "red pocket" money to (chinese equivalent of brown envelope) was a real pain.
It had to be a present at a child birthday, all very above board.
Anyway everyone moved on from Kunming there was still time to do some random wandering through the streets. You can wander all day through a chinese big city and never run out of interesting buisey everyday life sights.
Here someone welding, there cooked dog for sale, there someone cycling by with a tonne load on his bycicle.
posted by conor at 10:07 PM 0 comments
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Photos
And finally due to popular request, more photos.
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And here are some of the old ones
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posted by conor at 8:19 PM 1 comments
Crazy traveling
Well the reason to leave Muang Ngoi finally came,
you have to have enough money to reach a place where you can get more money,
and I was getting short.
So I had to start retracing my steps to get things that I left behind on the way.
So 9am boat meets 11:30am back of truck meets 3pm bus to Luang Prabang arriving around 9pm, what a transport roll.
Next morning 8:30am bus to Mengla China using my double entry visa,
meet directly with a 1:30pm bus going overnight to Kunming arriving 8am.
Arrive with 1500 kip (worth 12 cent) 1 us dolar, and minus 27 Chinese yuan I borrowed off a guy on the bus, got to an atm, wuhoo rich again.
