AlPage48 has the right idea or city anyways. Chengdu is the real gateway for Tibet, so try asking sites like www.gochengdoo.com/en/forums/all and travel agencies there. Even hostels in Chengdu have a decent amount of Tibet info.
As far as I know, the cargo section of the Kunming station is still accepting luggage, though it does go through a scanner. Also, a good idea to lock any sent luggage. It's going to pass through many areas and stay stored in an area with many workers coming and going. I've never had a problem shipping luggage, but did have a mini swiss knife taken from my saddle bag when I shipped my bike. Also Shanghai has a few stations, so you should make sure which the luggage is going to arrive and similarly it's claimed at the cargo section of the station, which can be in some obscure area to the side or back, but usually there are at least signs pointing the general direction.
Bring your phone and Google or some other translate site or app. Great for medical and dental terms and pharmacology.
I agree with aliennew, but since you do have a driver and guide and are flying to guilin, it's a workable itinerary.
You can ship luggage at the train station cargo depot. But you'll have to pick it up at the Shanghai train station. Benefits are they will store it for two weeks there for free at the Shanghai station for and a nominal daily fee thereafter. If you're staying at a five star hotel chain in Shanghai, usually, you can notify the concierge and they will make an effort to store your luggage until you check in if you provide them the shipment details. It's been a few years since I did that, so hotel and security policies may have changed about baggage storage without the guest doing it in person.
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Never gotten sick once at Sals. Their food is TexMex, so yeah, not authentic Mexican food, but pretty authentic as TexMex goes. Burrito wrap has improved a lot. Like the draft beer option now.
If you haven't had dairy products in a while, and do eat here, best forgo the sour cream. Nothing wrong with it, in fact it's the best sour cream in Kunming, but if you've eaten Chinese for month or months with no dairy intake, your system will react to sour cream or probably any liquid dairy product not so well. Maybe that's what happened with nailer and tallamerican.
Update:
It's now 5 working days for regular processing. So I submitted my application a bit before 5pm on a Friday and was told to pick it up next week Friday after 5pm.
Cost is now 400rmb for a single 30 day entry. Or that was what I was charged anyways. There are no posted prices and its cash only with no receipt except for your passport pickup. That's like $65 USD.
You can pay another 150rmb for 2 day or 100rmb for 3 day processing. For 400rmb, they should process it in three days like they used to before, but now you'd pay 500rmb. The office is still like deserted most of the time, so why does it take longer now and cost extra. If you opted for 2 day, thats like $90 usd. All other neighboring countries charge like $25usd.
The rest of and cope review is still good for hours and location.
Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.
Like everyone else says, best Indian food in Kunming. They have lunch plates and dinner plates. Show up before 1pm for lunch.
They are on the 4th floor of the half empty shopping mall. Best way is too take the elevator past the KFC around the corner from Starbucks.
Most individual dishes can feed only two hungry guys, so order more if you are starving. Naan order can take care of one only.
Five stars for the food. Go with Yereth's recommendations, plus any vegetable the waitress says is fresh.
Beware that Xue Fu lu is one way, so many taxis have to take a roundabout way to get here.
Learning the art of the crossbow in Yunnan
发布者Interesting article, but it seems the Chinese hill tribes didn't really seem to have kept the crossbow culture alive either. They are just more enterprising than the Thai and make crappy ones for sale?
Work commences on Lijiang-Shangri-la Railroad
发布者As nice as a train option to Shangrila would be, it's not worth spending a billion rmb x10.
Fundraiser: More For Baby children's autism center
发布者You know, your fear mongering with regards to vaccines is easy to ignore or tolerable when it just about adults, but when it pervades into children vaccinations, it moves into the realm of despicable.
$20 billion Sino-Burmese railroad abruptly cancelled
发布者So the PLA will have to walk across Myanmar now, pity.
After causing massive devastation, Rammasun dies in Yunnan
发布者Ahhh...that's why it's been raining all day.