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@Ocean,
that's why the YF vaccination is required when arriving from affected areas. You cannot get YF inside Asia, but Asia could get YF from someone arriving from outside.
@Ocean,
that's why the YF vaccination is required when arriving from affected areas. You cannot get YF inside Asia, but Asia could get YF from someone arriving from outside.
@Ocean, I think you should speak to a proper health care professional.
Lariam was a popular malaria prevention some twenty years ago when the side-effects were much less studied. It is not something they would give you in the UK anymore for prevention.
There are anti-malarial regimes with much less side-effects than Lariam.
Why would you need a Yellow Fever vaccination? Yellow Fever "has never been reported in Asia" says the WHO who should know (www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ ).
Proof of YF vaccination is required if arriving from an affected area, such as Latin America or Africa, but not from China.
I do not know anything about the Mouding event, but Yimen 易门 holds its annual Wild Mushroom Trade Fair 野生菌交易会 from July 20-26.
As far as I know, the event in Shiping county is in Longpeng 龙朋 township.
The mushroom houses you have seen are most likely the ones close to Nanhua 南华, the bus from Dali does not pass anywhere near Mouding 牟定.
With the lotus in bloom July until August should be prime time for Puzhehei. But having been recently to Shiping where the nearby Yilong lake is also famous for its lotus flower, the lake there is almost totally dry and the lotus boats are all moored. Not sure what the water situation is in Puzhehei. Puzhehei gets busiest over the torch festival, August 11 this year.
Yuanyang is also quite nice in summer, but you are unlikely to get great views of the terraces as the weather tends to be extremely hazy and of course rice is growing in the terraces. All the most spectacular photos with the fog swirling with the rising sun reflecting in the terraces have been taken in winter. Few photographers this time of the year.
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It is rare to find good approximations of western food anywhere in China and their lamb-chops (listed as lamb T-bone steak or so) were the best I have found so far. They came with good fries and the beer was cold. I liked the way that they serve the gloopy 'black-pepper sauce' separately, so one can just skip it. Pleasant and quick service too.
A pleasant modern eatery. The menu claims the chef worked for a large Chinese chain of Thai restaurants, but the Thai aspect of the food is difficult to find.
I gave the 'boneless chicken feet' a miss and had some spicy beef which while not bad was closer to the usual Sichuan fare than anything Thai. A dog under the table quickly lapping up any dropped food complemented the Sichuan experience.
The spring rolls were not bad though and together with a beer the bill came to Y58.
Easiest improvement would be better rice.
Easily the best bread to be found in Yunnan with friendly and efficient service. I have made detours to Dali just to pick up some bread on the way back to Kunming.
Kunming's forgotten, and now desecrated, WWII cemetery
发布者I was at the site a few years ago, then it was a sparsely forrested hill surrounded by southern Kunming's growing construction. Apart from the Flying Tigers marker there were a number of newer Chinese tombs (the coffin part is more likely from one of the newer graves). Some people were up there for picnics, leaving the usual rubbish.
Finding the Flying Tigers marker set in 2008 is not too difficult. We took a taxi down to the old 贵昆路 to 普照村. Then with a little help from a local we turned east, crossed the railway line and scrambled up a dirt track to the top of the hill. There seemed to be better access from the other side.
A link to a map showing the location: www.yunnanexplorer.com/[...]
Around Town: Kunming's 12-1 monument
发布者A bit more background information on the times and the 12-1 incident in a book by one of Kunming's longest western residents, John Israel: Lianda - A Chinese University in War and Revolution, for the 12-1 incident see particularly pp369.
While scholarly, John's book is very readable and gives a lot of insight into the times of the anti-Japanese war here in Kunming. It has recently been translated and published to great acclaim here in China.
www.yunnanexplorer.com/bibliography/publication/lianda/
Dragon Boat Festival
发布者Closest 龙舟比赛 probably in Yiliang 宜良 as part of the annual 花街节. Races start at 10am on Wednesday, I am not actually sure exactly where they have enough water for a serious race, but the flower market is held along 乡鸭湖大道, a ten minute walk from the bus terminal.
Full program here:
www.yunnanexplorer.com/gp/yiliang-huajie-2013-1/
Nobel laureate Mo Yan's Yunnan connection
发布者@helface
You misunderstood me if you thought that I was expecting GoKM to be anything but lighthearted. Not reporting controversial issues is a practical solution to a real problem and as nothing of that nature appears in GoKM I assume that this an editorial decision. This is fine with me.
As I said, I draw the line where this turns into a bizarre defense of distorted facts that have significant meaning in this country, assisted by some semantic trickery and hidden editing.
Is that really asking too much?
@Liumingke1234
It was meant in jest.
Land mines and coffee in Wenshan
发布者I have been to Tianpeng 田蓬 in Funing county where this has happened a few times, the first time maybe ten years ago. Not only is the scenery pretty nice, but it also has a unique mix of minorities: Miao, Yao, Yi, Zhuang. Even the Han dress traditionally there and some people cross from the Vietnamese side on market day.
But the border police has been very itchy every time I went there. The first time they told me to move into a different guesthouse and not to leave the township apart from on the bus back. Now I understand their concerns a bit better.