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Early November can be a very pretty time in both areas. The majority of the larger tourist groups will be gone. It shouldn't be particularly wet though evening temperatures could drop so be prepared with some warm clothing.
Finally got around to taking this trip. Still very cheap (5 kuai for the entire morning: Kunming North - Wangjiaying; Wangjiaying-Kunming-Shizui; Shizui-Kunming North).
@opper I think you could probably take anything you wanted on that train and they'd not care.
This is an incredibly interesting post — both informative and inspirational. The photos were equally high quality.
So the single wrong note in your otherwise eloquent report caught me cold:
We are "treated to a few cheery zhaxidele (扎西德勒)"? Hmm, is that a bit like being told "三颗药为你马吃"— An American greeting equivalent to "Thank you very much?"
I think instead what you heard was tashi delek "བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས (bkra shis bde legs)"
Demonstrating such a level of adventurousness and expertise this criticism is on many levels misdirected, as I am sure you did this for the Chinese-speaking reading audience but perhaps a bit of sensitivity to the actual Tibetan speakers is equally justified?
Around Town: China's last narrow gauge passenger train
发布者When I took it Nov 2014 it was 10.34 departure for Shizui from the North Station.
This recent article (Chinese) suggests it is still 10:34 —
www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2015-04/19/content_3444475.htm
Around Town: China's last narrow gauge passenger train
发布者Finally got around to taking this trip. Still very cheap (5 kuai for the entire morning: Kunming North - Wangjiaying; Wangjiaying-Kunming-Shizui; Shizui-Kunming North).
@opper I think you could probably take anything you wanted on that train and they'd not care.
Shangri-la to nowhere: A week on the edge of Tibet
发布者This is an incredibly interesting post — both informative and inspirational. The photos were equally high quality.
So the single wrong note in your otherwise eloquent report caught me cold:
We are "treated to a few cheery zhaxidele (扎西德勒)"? Hmm, is that a bit like being told "三颗药为你马吃"— An American greeting equivalent to "Thank you very much?"
I think instead what you heard was tashi delek "བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས (bkra shis bde legs)"
Demonstrating such a level of adventurousness and expertise this criticism is on many levels misdirected, as I am sure you did this for the Chinese-speaking reading audience but perhaps a bit of sensitivity to the actual Tibetan speakers is equally justified?
Around Town: China's last narrow gauge passenger train
发布者The train is back to its former *full* schedule (beginning Aug 15, 2014).
8861 - Kunming North (昆明北站) to Wangjiaying (王家营)
7:31 departs Kunming North (昆明北站)
8:39 arrives Wangjiaying (王家营)
[~40 minutes before return journey begins]
8862/3 - Wangjiaying (王家营) to Kunming North (昆明北站)
9:24 Wangjiaying (王家营)
10:34 Kunming North (昆明北站)
11:31 Shizui (石咀)
[~20 minutes before return journey begins]
8866 - Shizui (石咀) to Kunming North (昆明北站)
11:51 Shizui (石咀)
12:43 Kunming North (昆明北站)
8869 - - Kunming North (昆明北站) to Wangjiaying (王家营)
17:20 - Kunming North (昆明北站)
18:28 - Wangjiaying (王家营)
[~30 minute until return journey]
19:00 - Wangjiaying (王家营)
20:07 - Kunming North (昆明北站)