Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming new features and functionality But that's the whole problem @livingichina, GoKunming was the best game in town but there just seems to be no motivation to return to that now.
WeChat groups don't provide one central hub of information which this website and its various accounts used to provide.
It's also not just about information for events and such but also good English language news and updates as well as cultural/travel writing which was quite rich for many many years.
Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming new features and functionality Almost a year now since there was supposed to be more newly published content. Will this still ever happen again?
Forums > Living in Kunming > COVID 19 vaccine for foreigners @ ja yi this goes with my thread a little while back about GoKunming rarely publishing any articles or news anymore.
Last year at the start of the pandemic they were great with updates and communicating everything going on, now there's almost nothing ever published or written about anything.
This aspect of the website has gone downhill considerably.
Forums > Living in Kunming > What happened to GoKunming articles? @DanDare I knew about Patrick leaving but didn't know that Vera also left more recently.
I guess with borders still closed maybe it's harder finding anyone to take up the job?
Hope they do eventually find someone since as Ocean mentioned articles were always a major highlight of the website since way back when Chris and and Matthew were running things. GoKM admins, any updates on the status of things?
Forums > Living in Kunming > What happened to GoKunming articles? GoKunming used to regularly publish several articles per week on happenings around the city, travel, life in Yunnan etc?
What happened?
Now's it's no more than a few per month?
Why no coverage for instance regarding the migrant elephant herd?
The recent earthquake in Dali?
This aspect of the website has really declined.
Highway promises easier access to Meili Snow Mountain
Posted byKawagebo and Meili are the same. The former is the Tibetan name while the latter is the Chinese name.
Highway promises easier access to Meili Snow Mountain
Posted byBeen traveling this road for years so great to hear these tunnels will finally be finished to cut down on the travel time. I've been watching the ridiculously slow construction since 2011. When the rest of the new highway was completed around 2012-2013 it already cut the old six hour drive in half to three, so these tunnels should make the whole trip very reasonable.
Just a note, Baima is not actually part of the Meili range and a completely separate mountain though. Baima makes up the Jinsha-Lancang watershed divide while Meili makes up the Lancang-Nu watershed divide.
Snapshot: In search of Shangri-la
Posted byThat photo is on the trail from Yubeng village to the sacred glacial waterfall on Meili Xueshan or Khawa Karpo. It's a day hike from Yubeng, so involves a two night's stay in the village. To get there you need to drive to Xidang village a few hours north of Deqin on the Mekong and then hike about nine hours to Yubeng.
George Forrest: Scotland's Qing-era plant hunter
Posted by@Flengs, yes lots of info indeed, its a coffee table book in the sense of its size and all the photos, but its very well researched and a very thorough. Mueggler's book is also really excellent with a lot of info about Forrest's expeditions and much more affordable...
George Forrest: Scotland's Qing-era plant hunter
Posted byGreat article and summary of Forrest and his life! Always interesting to see others also writing about the historical French and Swiss presence in today's Cigu and Cizhong.
For some great work on Forrest in tandem with his more well known successor Joseph Rock, check out the excellent historical ethnographic book The Paper Road by Erik Mueggler. A fantastic archival analysis of what these men were like in the field given through the eyes of their local Naxi assistants.
A separate biography on Forrest full of great photos tiled George Forrest Plant Hunter is also a great read. Mandarin Books on Wenhua Xiang sometimes has copies but be warned, it is a large coffee table style book so expensive.