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Forums > Living in Kunming > My brand new electric scooter was stolen today

I have a fairly expensive mountain bike, but its about 5 years old. What I do is:

1. Keep it dirty - don't wash it after riding in the hills
2. Scratch up the paint a little
3. Duck tape parts of the frame to make it look like its held together with pieces of tape
4. Don't fix cosmetic problems that make it look worse but don't hurt the bikes function (e.g. I lost a part of my brake on one side which makes it look uneven and have had to rubber tube a part of the fork to stop dirt getting in!).

I figure thieves will only touch a bike they can resell. So like others have said, make it look like they won't be able to sell it and you should be OK. I have been tying my bike up to trees/lamposts all over the place for 6 months and it hasn't been touched (yet, cross fingers).

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Ship a package to Europe

Magnifico, are you speaking from experience? Did you really wrestle an elephant? Wow, you really are magnifico!

Careful that you don't ask for super fast shipping, its heinously expensive. I paid (I can't remember the exact price) about 150 RMB to ship a piece of paper to New Zealand! But I needed it there in about 3 days so it was necessary. And New Zealand is in the boondocks so no surprise.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Hutongs?

Try 桃源街 (Táoyuán jiē) along the riverside north of 人民中路 (Rénmín zhōnglù). On the Rénmín zhōnglù side they have barbecue at night and along the road heading away from the river are little alleys with bars. They are quite cool some of them, though filled with smoke and stares at lao wai!

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Forums > Living in Kunming > To the person who sent me an anonymous email

laotou's post was awesome, take not BillDan, there is a challenger to your unofficial title "King of Rants"!

But on the subject, laotou sounds he has had a lot of experience with local ayi's. I didn't realise it was that bad! I figured it would be more like HK which seems to be pretty good (though 90% of the Ayi's are Filipino... maybe a cultural thing? Or maybe a pay thing?).

Anyone else got local Ayi experience? Any good ones?

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Let me take a guess:

Corrupt man assumes control of vast fortune. Man converts a great deal of the fortune to easily transportable assets (diamonds etc) and/or transfers money to foreign accounts in countries with zero corruption laws and/or launders said money through dodgy means. Man leaves country. Man pays foreign official to create identity with a tiny portion of said assets. Man can go anywhere without ramifications.

Only occurred about 1000 times before in China...

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If you:
1. Are an experienced kayaker/boaty
2. Are adventurous and in good shape (actively exercise, have stamina)
3. Would like a more free exploring experience

4. Have a decent phone with GPS that you can put markers on, know how to use and can waterproof

Then I recommend the following:

Catch the ferry to Cat Ba.

Stay on Cat Ba island in pretty much luxury
Go to the back of Cat Ba island early morning with a packed lunch and other energy goodies.
Rent a sea kayak (they have pretty decent ones for rent and rent for a whole day).
Go forth and explore.

You can see so much, up close and personal and can decide where you want to go and when. I spent 2 days doing this, going through caves to hidden grottoes, landing on amazing beaches, looking around the local water peoples villages... was gobsmackingly amazing and didn't have any tourist shite. Seriously recommend.

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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!