Forums > Travel Yunnan > New Airport Hotels Second thought.
There is that car hire guy who is always on here. He may do an airport run and will cost less than a hotel and be more reliable a taxi. And as you are leaving early he may still be able to work the rest of the day.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > New Airport Hotels @Ambelu
If you cannot pre-book the taxi, and even if you do, make sure to tell the taxi driver the NEW AIRPORT and the DISTRICT. There is a risk that a tired driver on autopilot, or an inexperienced driver, will take you to the site of the old airport.
Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKM forum meetup? I am out of Kunming at the moment.
Forums > Food & Drink > What do Chinese people think about coffee? @AlexKMG
Seriously, if you go into Starbucks and ask people, you will only be asking that group of people who like coffee. People who don't like coffee don't usually frequent Starbucks. That group may represent 90% of the population or they may represent 1% of the population, and therein lies the problem.
This research if for a Master's.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Buying airplane tickets online? Best websites in China? @AlPage48
You are quoting for an internal/domestic flight. For internal flights we do NOT use Xpedia. For the reason you stated.
The OP's enquiry was about international flights, which is a different market sector. For international flights we use Xpedia.
Earth's budget deficit at 160%, hope stems from trees
发布者As the late Prof. John Maher (economist) told me, globalization is not sustainable. In the 1980s 20% of the world's population used 80% of the world's resources. What happens when another 20% (China) wants to use resources at the same rate?
Report: Three Parallel Rivers plagued by unregulated mining
发布者Does anyone know what the beasts are in the second picture? They appear similar to capybara. Although I know capybara are S.American.
Yuxi begins experiment as one of China's 'Sponge Cities'
发布者It will also play a major part in flood prevention further downstream. I lived just outside Gloucester, England in the late 1990s. We had floods year after year caused by the large paved areas of the cities in the Midlands, up to 100 km away.
With large paved areas the water cannot soak into the ground and slowly dissipate into the ground water system. Instead the water runs straight into drains and then is piped directly into water courses. This then over flows into rivers.
In the case of Gloucestershire, to protect the large towns downstream of the cities, they basically opened the floodgates knowingly sacrificing the smaller rural towns and villages further downstream.
The idea of a sponge city is beneficial to the city, if water can be saved for later use, prevention of flash flooding in the city itself during heave downpours, and for the areas downstream that get flooded as a result of run-off from paved areas.
This is a phenomenon that has been known for many years, but as cities (especially in China) are getting larger and larger, so are the problems that they cause.
Larung Gar: Sichuan's extraordinary Buddhist retreat
发布者Yes, great photos.
Report: Yunnan to have universal preschool education by 2020
发布者Let us hope that pre-school curriculum is not just a preparation program for the mainstream curriculum. There would be so much scope to develop children's other intelligences, leading to more rounded individuals, who can better cope with the things life will throw at them. Just having more of the same, starting earlier, will only give you what you already have; which everyone admits needs improving.