My God do a lot of foreigners have problems! If things are really that bad for you folks, try walking!
My God do a lot of foreigners have problems! If things are really that bad for you folks, try walking!
Have never been cheated in a Kunming taxi, in 10 years, either. Lately there have been occasions when the driver has taken an alternate route, sometimes slightly longer, but this has apparently always been done at time of the day where particular areas become jammed, thanks to the ominous and destructive idea that everybody who can possibly afford to buy a private car should do so.
I suggest that the taxi-cheat fear that may be quite justifiable in many cities is rarely justified in Kunming, so keep the lid on it before you start insulting drivers & making things difficult for everybody.
Nice town, considerable history (origin on Nanzhao Kingdom), guesthouses & hotels, bus takes about an hour. Weibaoshan nearby, mountain with Taoist temples, nice for forest walks, I'm sure there's transport there from Weishan - in fact there's accomodations at Weibaoshan itself.
@tigertiger: Neither, if you can help it - neither are democratic, both serve vested interests who oppress. Shop at mom 'n' pops; & we don't need to buy so much crap anyway.
@Silvio: When I'm in that market, I vote for Dicos too.
And for Julian Assange and Ed Snowden.
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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.
New visa and residence regulations for the PRC
发布者More visa changes - incredible.
Orlianne, in Kunming, anyway, you can live where you want (apartment, whatever), and I think this is true in most places now.
Kunming's metro could cost 300 billion yuan
发布者The metro will be a great thing but it's certainly going to cost - even better than the bus system, which was an excellent supplement to the bicycles before everybody started buying cars. The point is less that the metro will be good than that the automobile population is bad.
Much of modernity is seriously warped, and everybody wants to get in it and proudly make the same mistakes previously made by others. It's profitable too - for some.
Airport temper tantrum lands Yunnan official in prison
发布者Public outcries are not always allowed to be made public.
Airport temper tantrum lands Yunnan official in prison
发布者Airplanes are way over-used these days anyway - just one of a million things that the planet can't take anymore. Stay away from airports.
Airport temper tantrum lands Yunnan official in prison
发布者Did the crowd attack him for blowing his cool and acting like a jerk?