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Forums > Living in Kunming > Search box on GoKunming?

better search is to go to google and type:

site:gokunming.com (search term)

The results are dramatically better and it searches the whole site instead of certain sections.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > repatriate

Personally I have about $5-7k replacement cost of high quality camping/outdoor/specialist hiking and cycle touring gear that is expensive to replace and difficult to source. Another $2k worth of expensive clothing and it becomes worth it in terms of $$ and time saved buying it all back on the other end. I doubt anyone would ship household stuff that was easy to buy on the other end (beds/pots/wardrobes etc) unless they are particularly anal about having their own stuff.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > repatriate

Oh - we are travelling to Guangzhou at about that time, which makes it a lot more cost/time effective too.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > repatriate

It is a bit of a problem in Kunming, if you find a place, they will charge you an absolute bucket load.

We are sending boxes back to New Zealand in a few months, the cheapest and least hassle we have found will be to take them to Guangzhou by hand using CRE and try to be on the same train as them, then put them as unaccompanied luggage or cargo via an agent in Guangzhou to ship to New Zealand. We have about 80kg with 1 bicycle and 4 large boxes, the price is around $500 USD. The least expensive we could find door-to-door from Kunming to New Zealand came in at around $3000. This may be because it is going to out-of-the-way NZ and may be more cost effective if you have a lot more stuff to ship.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Need help with getting Kunming police clearance

Oh its on the 5th floor or something, you have to go up there and wait for someone to come through the doors and ask them who to see. They are pretty pleasant though, nice cops! Doesn't look like they do all that much all day though, they look pretty annoyed having to serve you.

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I have also noticed some post publishing "fixes" where the story is quietly changed after posting. This is NOT a good look for any site that reports news. Looks like I will be taking everything reported from GoKM with a grain of salt in the future if this is how you operate now...

Recommend you change your internal procedures - any changes to articles should be clearly noted at the bottom of your story, either in comments or attached to the story. Otherwise you are asking for trouble. And you come off looking especially bad when acting like you didn't make a change when you did... not impressed.

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Check out the one in England they want to build across the country. Estimated completion date 2023! Actual completion date likely to be 2025 if ever!

I also find it strange that in the west our trains are almost always late. Yet in China and Japan it virtually never happens. I have taken the overnight train to Guangzhou a couple of times and both times it got into the station within 5 minutes of the stated time, awesome!

A question about the last picture: Are the subway lines going to be single track with some double track for passing? Or is that only one tunnel, there is another tunnel next to that one for trains going the other way?

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It does make one think: Imagine how many would have died if they had guns?

Columbine - 2 teenagers with guns - 15 dead and 21 injured in less than an hour.
These two - 2 teenagers with their hands - 7 dead in 10 days.

Makes you glad that guns aren't available!

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Oh yeah - very sad to see the box go - not many foreign food places left, if Salvadors shut down for the same reason it would be an international incident.

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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!