Right, Jinghong to Mengla, Mengla to the skytree thing.
Right, Jinghong to Mengla, Mengla to the skytree thing.
I take it you mean 'community of foreigners'. I'm not sure that there's only one, but you might start at Salvador's Coffee Shop to meet foreigners and some Chinese who speak English. Some francophones hang out at the French Cafe, just around the corner from Salvador's. And the foreign (mostly US) Protestant Christian folks are likely to be found at the Wicker Basket (bakery-restaurant - excellent bread - 2 locations), as well as at their English-language church services.
Kunming Nos. 1 & 2 hospitals, and at least some others, practice western medicine. If you can't speak Chinese yet you might want to take along a Chinese friend to help you - many of the doctors will be able to speak some English, but other staff will not.
Bicycles, eco-buses and the new underground trains seem the best we can do.
Travelling by bicycle on mountain trails has always seemed to me to be a kind of gimmick - obviously impractical. However, I'm sure it takes a lot of skill and if you like it, do it.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@Kate: Almost nothing is harmless - how harmful is khat?
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者@faraday: seems to me the most important function of society is to allow & enable us to do so.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者I feel better already.
Concerning the article: I'm glad that Yunnan authorities are perhaps a little more human than those in the rest of the country.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者OK, now I see that you're putting us all on. Had me worried there for awhile.
Laos extradites drug suspects to Yunnan
发布者The Air America film is very heavy fictionalized. However, the book on which it was based does mention that the opium grown by the Hmong people in Laos (the Chinese call them Miao) who were corralled into being the CIA's 'secret army' in the 1960s, did indeed often go out in Air America planes. There are some who suggest that this means that the CIA was financing its 'secret' guerrilla war with Hmong opium. This doesn't necessarily follow and is far from proven,. At any rate it does not help your argument much one way or the other.