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!
Water treatment plants to be installed along Dianchi
发布者The local/central government response to cleaning up Dianchi has to be laughed at.
Step 1 - Dianchi's getting dirty. We know its because all of the human/industrial/farm waste we can see going into it. Don't care because caring doesn't make us any $$$.
Step 2 - Realise its actually a problem.
Step 3 - Wait until it becomes a HUMONGO MOFO problem.
Step 4 - Commit to cleaning it up by throwing a hell of a lot of money at it. Look for some quick way to clean it up involving ill thought out and unresearched but looks like we are really doing something method.
Step 5 - Commit more money to cleaning it up because Step 4 ain't working and has likely made the problem worse. Use some more but just as dodgy methods as in Step 4 but with bigger machines and more construction so it looks like something BIGGER is happening.
Step 6 - Finally admit that pollutants going into the lake are causing pollution (duh) and the only way to stop polluting the lake is to stop putting pollution into the lake (double duh).
Step 7 - Stop pollution getting to the lake.
All in the space of what, 20 years? Genius!
Getting Away: Cycling around Dianchi
发布者I thought any hotel in Yunnan could take foreigners? I have never been denied but then again I have never tried the real dodgy places... Has this rule changed? Or was it only in my imagination?
Yunnan Baiyao sued over toxic ingredients
发布者Anyone seen the new and massive Yunnan Baiyao offices in Chengong? Massive! They have their own lake and a good 50+ hectares of land, with running track etc... crazy!
Farmers protest land grab south of Kunming
发布者667 hectares... 120k... you must be joking. That's a ridiculously low amount, 180 kuai per hectare which normally gives income of (according to their numbers) 500k of income per year. They need to add 2 more zeroes to that number if they aren't giving them similar land elsewhere. Do they also live on this land?
Fog shuts down Kunming airport, strands thousands
发布者Normally there would be a few problems with any airport around the world when they have their first crisis.
But this is China, so multiply the problems x 3 due to lack of preparedness.
And this is Kunming, so multiply that result x 2 due to general lassitude.
Can't wait for the subway... not that I will be on it for the first 6 months, its not worth my life!