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GoKunming is the online resource for Yunnan Province and its capital city, Kunming. We offer up-to-date information regarding events, local businesses, news, nightlife and travel, as well as incredibly active user-generated classified and forum sections. GoKunming is southwest China’s largest and best English-language website.
Yunnan drought update
Posted byCloud seeding is based on shaky science at best and claiming to have done it with (obvious) little result seems more like an attempt to get a couple of cheap points with the public. As to the ingenious Long-range-intelligent-fire-bla-bla-bla I am fairly certain that helicopters can do a much better, faster and safer job spreading fire repressing chemicals.
Getting away: Yuanyang's rice terraces
Posted byChris; just as I said, your writing creations will improve. ;-(
When the cage smashers come
Posted bya fantastic read. thanks for writing!
Getting away: Yuanyang's rice terraces
Posted byHere's some info from Yunti Hotel's website (www.yunti-hotel.cn/), I think you'd enjoy Building B's gumnasiums and spacious farking lot:
"Yun Ti Hotel is located in Xin Jie LaoCheng Yuan Yang, YunNan China-the home of cloudy sea and terraced field, At present it is the only one three stars hotel with complete set of profection and high standarel service[...]
"Building A has 113 rooms with vievo rooms、parlour rooms、stand and rooms、sweet rooms、set of lunnry rooms、magnifilent hall. Nefied halls's bar. High –tech bussiness center and supermarket int it and guests will fell at home.
"Building B has a functional hall which can contain2400 presons. It has gumnasiums KTV rooms、bars、some meeting rooms、sanna roomsand a large farking lot."
GoKunming Weekend Preview
Posted byAlso, tonight (Friday) 8:00pm at Nordica:
Four Seasons - Spring
A Showcase of Female Artists in Yunnan
Getting away: Yuanyang's rice terraces
Posted byMatthew; Thank you for that. I think that I have been under a silly misunderstanding (?) I always assumed that the writer originates the tag words and, thus, may not have covered everything. Now, I guess that you guys do that?
Getting away: Yuanyang's rice terraces
Posted bythe travel tag link will help you find travel-related stories: www.gokunming.com/en/blog/tag/travel
and (albeit brief) hotel descriptions are on the listings pages for the hotels: www.gokunming.com/en/listings/itemlist/yuanyang/hotels/
Getting away: Yuanyang's rice terraces
Posted byChris; No doubt, your new window view has had an affect on your writing creations (Actually, this story may have been conceived before the new view, but let's pretend otherwise).
Is it not possible to have a section of this Website specifically set up to permit easy searches to well-written travel stories. Yes, we have Lonely Planet, but there's also an important niche for stories like this.
I can't imagine that you'll not offer this story to every airline that flies into China, for example.
Fantastic pictures - can't wait to return.
One small critique; hotel descriptions would be nice.
When the cage smashers come
Posted by"After contemplating a sinkful of dirty dishes in need of attention, I decide to head down the street for a beer in the sunshine" 呵呵
When the cage smashers come
Posted byWow. I am jealous of your view.
When the cage smashers come
Posted byChris; Now, living away from Kunming, your story is a joy. Will you, now, relocate your office back to the apartment with the fantastic new view. Which reminds me of the saying, "A writer is working his hardest when staring out the window".
Kunming will be totally renovated with the removal of the 'cages'. I look forward to seeing the result.
My only fear is that landlords will reinstall things back inside the window.
By the way, who gets the financial compensation - there's a fortune in metal there.
More swimming options around Kunming
Posted byIs there the option of buying a pass for discounted admission?
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
Posted byShame on all of you - absolutely ridiculous. This is NOT a solution to discrimination. I find it grotesque and abhorrent, and I can't believe anyone with any sense can indorse this sort of thing.
Chinese society is about strength and power. Look up anything on the lives of disabled people in China and you will see what I mean. Nurses will talk openly and smiling about how babies detected with potential disabilities are terminated before birth, how difficult it is to find work as a disabled person.
These people have been forced to live a life - regardless of how it is "better than suicide" - which is massively degrading. There's a myriad of jobs somebody could get regardless of their height. To say they "love doing it" is absurd. Even from some of the quotes in THIS article, it's clear that even THIS isn't true. But if any of them are happy, it seems only because the alternative is much worse - the fact they can only do bar and promotional work otherwise (also degrading).
Nobody should go there.
The whole venture (and it IS a business venture [see above]) should be boycotted, in the hope that China are forced to stop discrimination. This will be difficult though, because China is built on tasteless consumerism, and everybody in the west is too busy being dazzled by their economic prowess.
GoKunming Weekend Preview
Posted by^Sounds like another Kunminger gone off the deep end. Maybe these endless days of nothing but sunshine are frying our brains.
GoKunming Weekend Preview
Posted byin the limit as δt approaches zero (and as the sum of all my beers approaches ∞), can i get Newton-Raphson sauce on my iterated ribs? (mmmm, apples; goes great with pork)