Kunming has really gotten better and better. Making toilets free and more available is a great start. When you eat food from China, chances are you will experience 'the runs'. We need more toilets for sure.

I see everyone's so quick to poo poo the idea...

I wonder if it will be possible to check the "real-time concentrations of nitrogen, ammonia and PM2.5" inside a stall before and after your own visit.

There's an app for shat.

So...how many flies are acceptable this time around?

Things have improved a lot. I'm not sure that I am ready for Weechat though.

No one's getting high off these crops lol, not unless you're looking to smoke a couple of bushes.

0.3% THC compared to the usual norm 20% it says, near enough comparing it to like drinking an alcohol-free beer :o)

Seriously? And I suppose the soldiers can smoke pieces of their uniforms in times of need? Amazing...

The crop will produce fibers for military uniforms after PLA testing found them best in high humidity, tropical climates.

If u look on a certain historical semantic on asian societies, from tantric buddhism to hinduism, and see where kings and queens been buried that may work as a tool for finding the location for the dali and nanzhao kings. Look at the symbolism of rivers and mountains (shibaoshan in yunnan). Which river would be most holy? Where is the confluence? Where is Mt Meru....

Agreed. Far too many cars around. I never understood why people who live in cities want to own them. I rent cars occasionally when I want to drive in the countryside and I might buy one if I lived in a remote area but owning one in a city is just self defeating. I guess it's just a keeping up with the Jones's thing

The website dedicated to the Burma Road www.burmaroad.online has a whole page focused on Yunnanyi.

Actually, renting out cars rather than selling them might limit their unnecessary use, although instituting such a system would probably require a massive change in the global economy.

Note Jim's website and his numerous books and articles, available at Mandarin Books and/or through the website. In addition to what we see on gokunming there is at least one novel and a long poem on the Long March and God knows what else - he periodically surprises me with stuff I hadn't known existed. Also about a million photos.

No personal criticism intended, but the phrase 'car obsession' is accurate and global, with obvious effects everywhere.
Yunnanyi: any traces of the old WWII airstrip?