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Forums > Living in Kunming > Visa-Overstay Amnesty

DUd you had a 6 months overstay, balls of iron ! I'm going to reapply for my Visa on the actual day of expiration and I'm already shittin myself...

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Timing of return to Kunming

Get that Wallet ready they will send you to a hotel near the Expo Garden where you will have to fork out 3200+Yuan to stay there for at least 14 days and will be woken up early in the morning and evening for tests every single day and won't be allowed to leave your room.Bring vitamin D because there won't be a drop of sunlight in 14 days.

Plus the food sux, one tiny meal a day, and you cant cook inside your room. Menu can be ordered but it is not good and it's expensive, take at least 4k RMB for the whole ordeal and you will have an idea what prison feels like since u can't leave your room not even to go to the lobby.
No you can't go to your apartment, nice try. You are approached at the airport and taken by hazmat guys directly to the hotel on a plastified bus/van.

And that is if they lifted the travel ban, which I dont think they did.
But then again, they might need to extort more foreigners since it's been a while they had any ''guests''.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Travel within Yunnan with proof of quarintine?

Long story short tomorrow is my last day of a 14 day forced hotel quarintine in kunming.
Am I gonna get a health certificate from them?

I don't live in Kunming I live in Wenshan, which is still in Yunnan, can I travel to Wenshan normally? Will I be quarintined again?
Is Tuodong Lu entry exit bureau

closed tomorrow (Saturday)?

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Returning from Thailand

Lucky you can do it at home,

arrived recently and they shoved me into a hotel quarintine and I had to pay 3000 rmb + no meals offered , if you have no money to buy the expensive hotel foods you may as well starve.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Returning from Thailand

I'm facing a similar situation, I am in Thailand right now and I will fly to Kunming on the 20th of March,.
But the thing is, I don't have an address in kunming., I live in Wenshan, which is an hour away from kunming

Are they gonna isolate or quarintine me in kunming then , I heard if you don't have an address in kunming it's 5.000RMB

to stay at a local hospital or hotel. I also do not have that money, so what are they gonna do? Allow me to go to my apartment in Wenshan or jail/deport me?
I hope they can allow me to take the bullet train to my apartment in Wenshan where I can remain in isolation safely.

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I live in Chenggong and need to take the bus to Kunming on the weekends to work. So I gotta take bus 170 and stop at the bust terminal Ju Hua Cun to take yet another bus to work.

This sunday I was standing at the bus stop waiting for my usual 10:30 bus. and it jut would't come, after waiting for half an hour and getting desperate. Some kind chinese then stopped his car and told me that the morning bus service was canceled and that I should take the subway!

Guess what, after taking the subway and paying 4 damned kuai, I stopped halfway between Chenggong and Ju Hua Cun and guess which bus I had to take? Yes 170, the same bus take I used to take and that took me directly to from Chenggong to Ju Hua Cun for 2 kuai...

So they force you to take the subway, spend double the money, just to make you have to take the same bus you used to take again later because

and the subway stops halfway your route.

Add that to the fact I need to take another three buses you got Chaos, by the way, you'll have a surprise whenever you reach the last stop of you subway route, get out to take a bus and marvel at the amount of people waiting at the bus stop. You're screwed...

Louis... you about are 5 years late.

Kunming nowadays has brown skies and chaotic traffic. The headline photo above is deceiving, I bet it was either taken a long time ago or during the end of a prolonged holiday; the sky just doesn't quite look like that anymore. I don't want to sound like a hater but the truth can be rather disappointing.

I have lived and worked in all of the cities quoted above (as well as Taipei n HK) in exception of Xiamen and Qindao... Kunming is not a bad place to live, however the recent industrial output here and lack of diesel emission control is destroying the only reason KM was big in the eyes and nose of expats: the environment.

IN A COUPLE OF YEARS FROM NOW, the PM 2.5 levels will be reaching 200 constantly, there will be no advantages to choose Kunming over any other chinese city. Yes it will be hazy and unhealthier because when combined with its high altitude the health effects will be worst than other cinese cities.

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Call before you go, I went there on thursday and there was no one in there,

I called one of the owners, and they said that they weren't going to open.

I lost my trip, I love the concept of the restaurant, No MSG and etc, but ended up having to pay for a cab ride and getting a growling stomach.

If the same thing happens to you, just go down the road until the road ends and the last 2 story restaurant across the street is very also decent. Order the sweet and sour fish and it also won't have any MSG.

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No Bus to Chenggong from the airport, had to go downtown and get a 150 RMB taxi.

I mean isn't this a district of Kunming? Then why not make transportation available?

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