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Its a good step for GoKM, should remove half of the spam that appears. It also ensures your email address is correct.

Buuuuuttt... the links above the menu bar (username * Logout * Mobile * RSS) are in a different font to the rest of the site and look weird. Easy fix GoKM!

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Changing money in Kunming

Yep, I am pretty sure my 5k withdrawals were at ICBC's. However on some days I can get only 2000 from a machine that has once given me 5000. I believe what happens is the machine restricts the amount depending on the amount of physical cash left in the machine as on occasion the maximum withdrawal can be a measly 500.

I have also withdrawn 5000 at a (don't know the name of the bank but not ICBC) ATM nearby Wenlin street on Long Xiang Jie, past Dicos on the left heading West. At the same machine a month or two later though I was restricted to 3000, I suspect for the reason stated above again. The machine seems like something from 1980's though so I felt a bit dodgy using it as it looks like it might chew up your card. Never did though.

Back on the original topic though, anyone else bring cash/travellers check with them when coming from overseas?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Changing money in Kunming

0.5% conversion fee? Man, that's pretty good! I get charged NZD $15 for each overseas withdrawal = RMB 75. For a RMB 5000 withdrawal, that relates to 1.5% fee. Any other fees associated with using travelers checks? Where can they be cashed in China? And do the banks where you cash them have any additional fees?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Changing money in Kunming

Don't bring NZD! USD best bet, can change at bank if need to.

But then again, why bring physical money? The best thing for people to do these days when they travel is usually to use their ATM cards at a local ATM. That way, only 1 conversion takes place (and hence only 1 set of fees). If you change from NZD-USD in NZ, then have to change from USD to NZD in China, you are getting hit with at least 2 conversion fee charges and losing money through the nose!

You can get between 2000 and 5000 RMB from ATMs in China with an overseas card (most common is 2000, sometimes only 1500, I have got 5000 from a few machines), which should see them right for a while, so why carry around foreign money at all? Plus not to mention the convenience...

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Amazing! The judge had to go and collect evidence herself! Absolutely classic! Who then, in such a case, is on the side of the environment? Seems like the court was prosecuting people without a plaintiff? Because surely the plaintiff or prosecution bench at least would be going out and getting evidence to support their case...

Regardless - long may this court exist and greater may its power grow!

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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!