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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Kunming to Hanoi

I need to go back to Sweden (Copenhagen) this summer, and to my surprise, I found flying from Hanoi is cheaper than either Beijing or Bangkok, Hongkong or Guangzhou. As a swede, I don't need visa for Vietnam, which begs the question; how do I get from Kunming to Hanoi? is it easy even if I have lots of luggage? it is safe? Thankful for any advice you can give me.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Save the celebration of shabbiness!

I'm leaving China soon, and being the last contributor present of the Heaven in Hell shabbiness blog, there's lots and lots and lots I'd still would like to do, but simply won't have time to (though I do have a few reviews still in the pipeline). It doesn't nearly feel like the blog's purpose, being a guide to cheap and shabby, off-the-beaten-track Kunming restaurants, is fullfilled. I actually think there's potential for growth; based on google analytics, off late the blog has had maybe 60-120 readers.

I'm not yet ready to completely hand over the blog, as I might go back to China in a year or two and wanna continue it, but I would be delighted if there's anybody in Kunming who'd feel up to the task of becoming a contributor, and post a new review every now and then. We can talk about the details later, if there is anyone interested, just know I cannot offer you anything else than the honor of a top spot on the contributors page, and an outlet for your witticism and cynicism.

If there's anyone who'd have more ambitious visions for the blog than mine, I'm definitely open to discuss it (for example, I hosted the blog on blog.se so it wouldn't be blocked by Big Brother, but since then blog.se did the extremely stupid move of joining wordpress, so now it's blocked...I would much prefer to host 'Heaven in Hell' on a site more easily accessible from China; it's after all a site meant for Kunmingren).

Here's the blog in all it's glory, please help me out and keep it going, as I feel a site like it is needed for the english-speaking community in Kunming. It'd be sad if I had to close it down:

kunmingsshabbiest.blog.se/

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Tattoos in Kunming? 好不好?

I see lots of chinese people with nice-looking tattoos, and I'm considering getting one myself, as it's almost (or completely, due to guanxi) free here, compared to the thousands of kuai it'd cost me in Sweden. I have a design prepared, and a tattooist that a friend has vouched for.

Do I dare? Are there any drawbacks to getting a tattoo here, as opposed to in Europe? I've heard somewhere that the inks has worse quality, would this be true?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Where can I sell stuffs ?

I know that a friend sometimes get rid of clothes at the clothes second hand market over by Zhangguangyin, but when I went to the general second hand market across the street people seemed remarkably unwilling to buy my stuff even for ridiculously low prices. One guy claimed all his (obviously second hand) stuff came from Korea, and I was like 'yeah, right, whatever'. I left rather perplexed, as I don't get how a second hand market could work if they never buy second hand stuff from people.

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Up the mountain from Baoxing temple, there are a couple of dusty, eerie and seemlingy abandoned temples that might be worthwile if you fancy climbing the steep stairs and aren't afraid of the monkeys that will harass you on the way. On the mountaintop is a temple I think was called Jiding si, which was mysteriously open when I got there, but without a soul to be seen. It's old, empty and not very interesting, but if you love temples like I do it's worth it because of the odd and ghostly mood.

We saw most of the area in a day without car or guide. Me and my sister joined some chinese hikers, set off by foot from Shaxi and trough a beautiful and peaceful dry valley with ancient rock carvings that eventually led to Shizhong temple. After this we walked along the concrete road to Baoxing temple, and then up the mountain to the abandoned ones. After that it was getting late and we were very hungry, not having had lunch, so we quickly walked down and continuted along the main road; here I assume we passed Haiyun temple but probably missed it because it was past closing time then. We got out trough the main gate and, finding ourselves much farther from Shaxi than we would have been at Shizhong temple, flagged down a passing bus to get back.

I've tried this recipe now, and I can definitely vouch for it. The taste was very savory and nice; I used the fish mint but not the sawtooth herb. However, it wasn't nearly as ultra-über-mega-spicy as I'm used to from the Dai restaurants in Kunming, and I'll have to experiment a bit so I can achieve that.

Hoping on a plane costs a lot of money and trouble, that's not something all of us can or want to afford. That being said, you have a point of course, most people don't leave Kunming that often, but even Kunming itself benefits from being in Yunnan, seeing as it has great weather and very nice surroundings; you can easily get a little bit of nature without even having to travel to another city, just get out in the mountains. In terms of amazing 'getting away'-opportunities, even if just for a day, Kunming has every other major chinese city beaten hands down, perhaps except Xining, Ürümqi and Lanzhou, and it seems to me few laowai wants to live in those three anyhow. For me, coming from a european city with extremely boring natural surroundings, this is a very big issue, as living in Kunming completely re-ignited a passion for the outdoors that I can never pursue in my hometown. (And then, sure, say Dali would be even better in this regard, but we're talking about major chinese cities only here).

I personally also think Kunming has a very nice cuisine, as I really enjoy yunnanese food, but I know the 'food in Kunming'-question is a sensitive issue on this site, so I'm not gonna push that one.

There is of course a MAJOR advantage of choosing Kunming over any eastern cities, and this advantage will remain no matter how polluted, congested, backwoods or whatever you might consider Kunming: Kunming is in -Yunnan-.

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The temple itself is interesting, but small; the surrounding exhibitions range from pointless and boring to rather fascinating, but you really need to know chinese or have somebody translating for you to get anything out of it. If you only have limited time in Kunming, skip it and head for the Bamboo Temple instead. Otherwise it's worth a visit.

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The place itself is somewhat interesting, the hike there through the mountains is very nice and the views absolutely stunning.

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Though overpriced, the bread is good and the pizza not bad (though a bit small). However, this place score tons of points for the great and cozy atmosphere, it's absolutely worth repated visits.

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The temple itself is not very interesting, but the grounds are beautiful and the adjoining park (Admission fee: 5 yuan) makes for a pleasant stroll or picknick in a quaint and somewhat forgotten corner of Kunming. I don't know if people are ever allowed into the pagoda;if so, it would make for a grand view of the city, and be worth one extra star. Definitely worth a visit. Note that the temple compund and the park is connected via an underpass just behind the park's west gate.

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It's a pleasant little temple, but the local temple staff wants nothing but your money, and will try their best to get it through various semi-scams.