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High-speed train from Kunming to Dali

michael2015 (784 posts) • 0

I've always avoided Dali & Lijiang because of the traffic (and I hate flying). This looks like a great opportunity to explore, in addition to the cities along with way.

OceanOcean (1193 posts) • +5

It'll now take longer to get to the Kunming high-speed station than to travel Kunming to Dali!

bilingualexpat (219 posts) • 0

Update: the fastest train will take only 1 hour and 48 minutes.

While the slower train 2 hour and 10 minutes.

Perhaps the faster one leaves from Kunming Railway Station.

GoK Moderator (5096 posts) • 0

It could just as easily be the other way around. Leave from Kunming Station and then travels slow to the high speed network, connecting at Kunming South.

We will have to wait and see.

bilingualexpat (219 posts) • 0

That would be counterintuitive and unproductive if you look at a map.

Traveling from Chenggong to Kunming City to Dali is a single Northwesterly diagonal path.

Going from Kunming Station to Kunming South then back towards Kunming Station again and onward to Dali would extend the trip beyond 2 hours and 10 min.

Philou (208 posts) • 0

Tickets are now sold online so we can check: www.12306.cn

For example, 1st train in the morning, the fastest from Kunming Station (1h48min):
D8660/8661
昆明南 7:22-7:40 昆明
昆明 8:12-10:00 大理

ricsnapricsnap (193 posts) • 0

Are they crazy?! 32 minutes waiting time in Kunming station? What for? Having the male attendants going

outside

to smoke one after the other one?
What a waste of money and resources. They build the fast railway network, but then it's managed like shit.

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