Yes, I followed prompts on the site and hit a dead end. It doesn't work yet. I have an American friend who gets visas on arrival, but she is working there so it's a business visa. Seems for tourist visa, no can do.
I just got off the phone with the consulate in Kunming, and posted what I found out on this site's listing for the Myanmar Consulate.
Looking into getting a visa for Myanmar, I came across this, ostensibly a government site. www.myanmarevisa.gov.mm/howtoapply.aspx
Can anyone confirm this is legit? And works for an American?
My sense is that the problem has a lot to do with poor customer service and communication, compounded by the fact that so many travelers are infrequent or first-time fliers. It can't help that the new Kunming airport is a horribly planned monstrosity.
My sense is that the problem has a lot to do with poor customer service and communication, compounded by the fact that so many travelers are infrequent or first-time fliers. It can't help that the new Kunming airport is a horribly planned monstrosity.
Go do it now, and explain that you have been traveling elsewhere in China for those two months.
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Recently stayed at Lost Garden and Upland, which seem to be each other's only competitors in that neighborhood. I prefer Lost Garden— seems to be more comfortable rooms, and slightly better overall. I did spend one night in a horrible room there — one of their dorm rooms in the main building. It seems to have flooded and had one of the strongest mold odors I have ever smelled. But I had them move me the next day into another room (it was dorm 101, in the building that does not have a lobby or restaurant).
Definite room for improvement (roof terrace is not at all tended to, random boxes and stuff in hallways, very slow breakfast service), but as guesthouse/hostel options go in Kunming, it seems to be the best of the few things going.
This shop is pretty out of the way (they've moved to near the south gate) and it's not worth hunting them down unless you are tall and can't find a big enough bike elsewhere.
Not only do they charge almost twice as much as other shops (they are charging a premium for a Russian brand called Format), but I have found the service pretty un-friendly, despite the whole "We're a bike club" thing.
This appears to be closed — unless they sell dumplings half the time.
CLOSED THE LAST DAY OF EVERY MONTH.
Discovered after an hour-long cab ride...
They've opened a cafe across the street that needs a listing... Bird Bar Cafe. Possibly the best-looking cafe in Dali, good coffee and food.
US Ambassador to China visits Yunnan
Posted byLink, Walter, link!
Farmers protest land grab south of Kunming
Posted by@mike4g_air It's made possible by land swaps — this recent Sinica podcast gives a pretty good introduction to how they work, and how local officials use them to screw farmers.
popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/chinas-urban-billion
Interview: Shopkeeper Ms Tang
Posted byMore of this, please!
Interview: 'Cloth painter' A Ling
Posted byI absolutely love that second work! Wish I could see the whole exhibition...