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!
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者There is no such thing as full proof in science, even the most concrete scientific facts aren't 100% unequivocal mostly because of time. In the current discussion, I remember reading that scientists are only around 95% sure about common descent, but they consider natural selection much closer to 100%. If you define faith as belief without full proof, then I agree completely. But I define faith in the belief of something in the absence of evidence, particularly contrary evidence.
419 million year-old 'missing link' discovered in Yunnan
发布者Ha haa, you guys are obviously fishing for comments from an "evolutionist" like me, the comments section of this article probably isn't the place to get into it.
Evolution, as you guys are defining it is a working theory that has some evidence for its proof. Unfortunately creationism has none, even though people like me wish that it did! It stands to reason that if you require proof for something, you are more likely to believe in evolution. If you only require faith for belief, then you are more likely to accept some form of creationism. The difference between why evolution gets more press (and hence you can claim propaganda) than creationism is that it's a continuous bible in progress. Everyone already knows the creation theory, which is why there isn't much press about it, it's yesterday's news. Claiming brainwashing either way is futility in action. We will only know who is brainwashed when one theory is thoroughly proven.
The Shelter: an eco-friendly outpost in Yunnan's untamed northwest
发布者The guy on the far left of the group trip is a nice Canadian guy named Tom I met walking Tiger Leaping gorge a while back. He had cycled all the way from Taiwan to Shangrila and was looking for the next place to go. I and others had recommended Nujiang valley, good to see he made it!
Raccoon missing, feared kidnapped
发布者Well... I figured a coon in a zoo has probably been immunised against rabies... soooo... hang on a sec, just have to go feed Dian Dian...
Raccoon missing, feared kidnapped
发布者Oh right, they have rabies??! I didn't know that... so if I travel to America for a hiking trip, should I get a rabies shot? Wait, are coons aggressive or scared of humans?