Big and heavily hyped is obvious; teams are all national teams. Everybody wants 'my COUNTRY' to win. Maybe that's okay, but it carries over, and is a carryover. Root a toot toot.
Great athletes, great sport, yes.
Indeed a big and heavily hyped show, nationalist to the bone.
There are things I don't like about Lonely Planet but they do have practical info about seasonal weather and cheap places to stay that is useful.
I second what Campo says, would only add that in most of the places I've been in Yunnan I can get a room for less than 150rmb per night. My hotel room in Jinghong was 60rmb - not lux, of course, but everything more or less worked, including the tv & air conditioner (which you do not need).
Presently in Jinghong - rains every day, probably more than once, but only briefly, although it can be hard rain; otherwise humid. Temperatures during the day are up to about 28-30 degrees C, pleasant in the evening. Sunlight right now, 6:30pm. My local contact says this has been a wet summer, but it seems to be tapering off a bit.
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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.
Winners: Best of Kunming Awards 2016-2017
发布者Saw a couple people accept and then immediately auction off excellent raffle prizes they had won but would not or could not make use of, and give the money to a charity - seems to me to be a good and valid option to include in future events.
Dual high-speed railways usher in new era for Yunnan
发布者Note that the South RR Station is on the underground/subway.
I have just returned from Guangzhou to Kunming South - 9 hours, good comfortable seats, quiet, smooth, bright & shiny; ran at about 200 kms/hr. Price a little over Y400. Even the food on the train was better than the usual quite-bad food on ordinary trains. There's a faster train that is supposed to take about 6 hours, price a little over Y800.
Around Town: Dancing in Green Lake Park
发布者On balance it's a good thing: public space for the public.
Heshun: Old school charm in western Yunnan
发布者Really nice photos, makes me want to visit the place, although I object to the practice in China of charging entrance fees to visit whole towns, which turn them into museums.
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者I take your point, hedgepig, but cultures change, very often brought on by outside influences, and I'm not sure that taking on Christianity is necessarily more negative than taking on nationalism or various other doctrines - I'm not pushing anything in particular, except that the circumstances are always somewhat particular and have to be judged that way. For better or for worse, there is no hermetic sealing against the outside - the general question is, who's in charge here?