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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Scum landlords of Dali.

Exactly what you have described just happened to our former (Chinese couple) flatmates.

The owner gives them cheap rent for 3 years as long as they decorate (at the start of last year). They decorate and get in flatmates to cover their costs. Just over a year later, the owner says that they have to leave, fuck what the contract says, they want them out. And they aren't going to pay for any of the renovation costs.

After threatening them with a lawyer friend of theirs, they finally caved and said they would pay the renovation costs but they still had to move out. Of course not everyone knows a lawyer or is in a position to settle.

Hang on a second, wasn't one of the reasons Mao's revolution was so successful due to greedy land owners? Hmmm... are we seeing history repeat itself? This time not with land but landlords?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Problems with China Eastern Airlines

I would like to jump on the f**king useless China Eastern.

I booked flights a while ago with them to Hong Kong and return for 3 days. Everything looked a-OK, but now 11 days before the flight leaves, they decide to change both flights to and from Hong Kong, both now a day later. Obviously this screws everything as connecting flights, meeting people, hotel reservations and everything else is completely off.

I should have learnt from the first time this happened with them when they decided that I would have to return 3 days later than I planned. Luckily that time it was OK and I assumed it was an anomaly.

How they think they can effectively operate an Airline business if they change flights within 2 weeks before they were supposed to go is beyond me.

This is a tip for everyone - if you want to actually arrive on time, on the right day and probably even in the right place... don't fly China Eastern.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Strange light in the sky tonight

Quite a few Chinese people saying they saw a UFO too, so it wasn't just us laowai's imagining some secret Chinese technology! Might have been an aircraft on afterburner going straight up realising they were in the flight path of commercial airlines, but likely we would have heard that... doesn't make sense if it was a rocket launch, straight above a city isn't very smart if it explodes or drops out of the sky...

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Cheers guys, will google earth it first to check it out! When I go and ride a route I will have a look around using a GPS tracking application on my phone so I can tell people if I find some nice tracks. I am a pretty sensible and skilled mountain biker so won't end up skewered by my handlebars down some dead end track, well, it hasn't happend in my 18 years of mountainbiking (5 years of racing!).

My tendency when exploring new routes is to cycle it at a sane speed first, remembering turns and key points for dismounting etc. The next time at medium speed and the next at 3/4 speed, which is about as fast as I dare in areas that could be changed one day to the next!

Can you guys tell me if there are access issues (private property etc) around the area, apart from the military base on the South side of the mountain? This may be a general China question - will I get shot at or arrested if I stray onto some farmland where the farmer doesn't like visitors? Probably a pretty general question, but being new to China it would be good for any local advice. So far when I have been riding up around the resovior areas most people don't take any notice of me and those that do usually give encouraging shouts (well, I think so, my Chinese isn't that good yet!).

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Just did this ride (the original, will try Daniels update another time!), its pretty good for a training ride, some good extended uphills that keep the heart going for some time. This is the only ride where I have noticed the slight oxygen depletion from the altitude!

Can anyone tell me if there is any good single track off the mountain and how to get to it? There may be some off the various small roads leading off the main route, but I aren't sure where to start looking! Thanks

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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!