Learning Mongolian gaoxing? I also didn't hang out at Salvadors too much, but I didn't find anyone snooty there, well not any more snooty than sitting in a nice cafe in the West.
Anything in Mongolia that is interesting? I thought about biking through there at one point, those massive wide open plains.
@JanJal - you probably can. But we don't want to risk that you cannot or that someone in the airline you board in the foreign country (Chinese airline) says "you cannot board the plane, because you cannot legally enter Hong Kong" even if you are in transit only. Or some official in Hong Kong doesn't quite know the rules (or is being obtuse).
As Tiger says - never assume. I think we will keep avoiding Hong Kong until all PRC citizens have free entry.
We are living outside China now. When we return to visit we actively have to avoid Hong Kong as the Chinese Embassy in our country apparently cannot process a Hong Kong entry visa for Chinese citizens from outside the main cities. So it doesn't get any better if you try to visit Hong Kong from overseas.
Ha haaa, great comment. Particularly ugly or plain apartments are now to be referred to as "sky turds". That is 95% of the ones you see when you look around.
Pretty easy way to test if this is a genuine Chinese person or not - ask them to start replying to questions in Chinese. Then get your wife/friend to read it to see if it makes sense.
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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!
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.
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!)
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!
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!
Kunming's illegal street racing scene
发布者"...and in an uncharacteristic fit of investigative journalism..." classic!
Interesting piece. Has there been any reports of crashes/injuries/deaths?
The last sentence echoes the same around basically every city in the world where cars are common and wealth is above average.
Kunming-Shanghai railway delayed until 2016
发布者The way railways go around here, likely it will be 2020 before it will be operational...
Can Beijing tame Golden Week travel madness?
发布者Really Yuantongsi??? I aren't doubting you, but looking here:
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It says:
"Article 45
The State shall practise a system of annual vacation with pay.Laborers who have kept working for one year and more shall be entitled to annual vacation with pay. The concrete measures shall be formulated by the State Council."
Which is a bit airy fairy, but at least it means that if you have worked in a place for a year you should be getting paid annual leave... how much of course is up for debate.
China will have to become a hell of a lot more efficient and productive per person to compete internationally. Until they do, I guess they will just keep screwing the workers to do more hours!
Can Beijing tame Golden Week travel madness?
发布者Great pics!
Of course they need to allow people to choose when to take holidays. I am surprised their goal is 2020 though, it should be 2015. Taking more than 2 years seems excessive.
Something I note is that a lot of infrastructure is being built to enable it to cope with the golden weeks. Huge train stations and roads that are only full when a golden week is on isn't exactly a wise use of resources.
Dianchi below national standards, nearby construction may be halted
发布者Planned obsolescence is a big driver of capitalism Peter! The Chinese are just ahead of the west in realising that if they apply it to construction, it can drive their GDP. Of course it will mean the everyday people that buy their buildings, in the medium/long term, will get bitten. Just another way to spiral money upwards, the result of capitalism.