Error corrected, that's what happens when I skip my lunchtime coffee...

What was he doing with his leg in a motorcycle?

This writer is so interesting

Yesterday I spent 4 hours at Moon Lake Hot Spring and it was awesome! Ticket is 68rmb, including light refreshments. Clean, professional, and good service. I'll be going back very soon. Thanks for telling us about it!

HI,
I went to grade school and H.S. with Mike.

He regularly kicked my ass at basketball when we where kids. I sucked! Mike was MUCH better than me. ha ha.

He was a great guy! I am extremely saddened to hear of Mike's passing, as it seems we would have had A LOT in common here in our later life.

He will be greatly missed. I feel I have missed an opprotunity to re-connect with a lost friend. Someday we will have a laugh together again, I am sure of it!

Moon Lake Hot Spring website www.moonlakehs.com

You forgot the best thing about Yuxi city, there's a Walmart! Just kidding. Anyway thanks for the tip about "moon lake" hot springs resort being the best. 2 days ago we checked out some "hot springs" in the area and it was a joke; just swimming pools with warm water. You could also mention Fuxian Hu (lake), a huge and incredibly beautiful lake good for swimming in the summer. By the way, I live and work in Shanghai, but my gf is from Chengjiang town, Yuxi county (on the north side of Fuxian Hu).

A fantastic gesture in honour of a truly great person.

He'll always be missed down here in 'banna too.

i want to find the owner o this guesthouse in Ruili, He is from Burma old friend of mine.
could you send me on my personal email : michszt@hotmail.com
My name is Michael i am french

I think it depends on which China one wants. There is the China that is comprised primarily of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc. consisting of breakneck development, gridlock, highly-polluted air as well as access to most international products and services, and somewhat sophisticated infrastucture with prices to match. yet most Chinese do no live in places like that. Although there over a hundred cities with populations of 1 million or more, the vast majority of people live in tiny rural communities, doing subsistance farming and living in very poor conditions. Kunming is a city situated between the two extremes.

Kunming is also a compromise. The local government has great aspirations, but lack of a well educated population, lack of finances and the squandering of what funds are available has Kunming mired in pitifully overloaded infrastructure. The pace of life and the incomparable weather are what make Kunming such a livable city. Is this China Lite? I'm not sure, but I think it's much closer to the life for the majority of Chinese than the hustle and bustle of Beijing or Shanghai.

Do You know, when Yang Li Ping will come to Kunming with her show?
Günther

I wanna know Peter's hotmail.

Chris, thanks so much for heads up. The campaign is indeed a worthwhile one. Kunming faces a traffic and infrasturcture problem of monumental proportions. The existing road system is not adequately maintained and is already over capacity. One can only wonder what it will be like 365 days from now when there are another 146,000 cars on the road.

On another note, I'm sure that private auto restriction for next Saturday will not be in effect for the "white license plate goon squads" who manage to break every traffic law with impunity.

The Jatropha plant is not of African origin. I haven't an opinion about the remainder of the note, but one should get basic facts right (and vapours??)

amazing how even the biofuels movement is completely fragmented, pitting methods and crops against each other in an enormous lose-lose debate.

in honor of the total futility of fighting over how to address global warming, i'm going to hold my rant on this issue. the only person i know doing anything really profound at the moment is colin. any gokunming coverage of his fossil fuel boycott plannned?