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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Car off-road accessories in KMG

@alienew
They really do. Never had on the road issues but know a guy that did.

Go to any vehicle inspection place and you will find a heap of bull-bars in the corner whose owners abandoned them because they didn’t want to pay again for getting them refitted. Ones I forgot to remove the bull-bars from my car and was straight away sent to that corner. They wanted 200 kuai for undoing 8 bolts, so I went home and did it myself as I have done that every other year ;-)
On my motorbike I had to reinstall the rear seat for every test. Never used that and had it removed in order to carry gear in a better way.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Car off-road accessories in KMG

@alienew
In China cars have a passport with picture. At the annual vehicle check the car has to look exactly like that picture. Even painting on the sides like logo’s and advertisement are not allowed. One of the reasons why they are rather anal about this is that at the vehicle inspection places they make some money on the side removing items from your vehicle (And reinstalling them again if you even pay more) at rather inflated prices.
On the road you can be even fined if your vehicle is not conform the picture.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Cycling from Dali to Tiger leaping Gorge

Yes on the ground navigating this route is a piece of cake hundreds of geographically challenged tourist do it every day ;-)
The cycle route more or less hugs the waterfront.
The G5611 is a motorway. You are not allowed on that with your bike.
PS
In China you will need the Chinese version of Google maps:
www.google.cn/maps/@25.7984751,100.1602391,11z
The international version does not work here without VPN.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Car off-road accessories in KMG

Not really but might be hard to find proper equipment here. This because most of the stuff one sees here is not for off-road use but for show-off use. There is some off-road crossing near Dongchuan on a valley filled with boulders but that is basically it in off road terms in Yunnan. For real off-road stuff you have to be more in the north west of China.

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Good memories of the place also I never was there during Christmas.
Were invited to stay at the church guest accommodation (No guesthouses in those days) and had the local food (Very good) and local wine (Very bad).

The 70 years of support for the upkeep is not quite right. The cemetery was quite neglected during the communist time because it was honouring KMT soldiers. The Yunnan historian Ge Shuwa found it back in a rather neglected state. Since then, as well because of the changed political climate, things have changed; the place is under protection and during the last couple of years the stone engravings have been neatly painted red again. Since a few years the ground contains as well a memorial hall which is one of the better museums of Yunnan that not only tells the story of the battle for Tengchong but as well all about the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the battles to reopen the Burma Road again. In the garden you can find statues of both Stilwell and Chennault brotherly standing next to each other. In reality they hated each others guts.

Higher production of coal based electricity with less coal is due to outfacing of older less efficient coal based generation plants. Next to that there is a reduction of coal use in other applications then electricity generation so percentage wise coal based electricity generation goes up (as a percentage of total coal use).
Geezer might be a mathematician but that does not mean he understands numbers.

Indeed still a lot of China's electricity consumption is coal based. But things are changing. In Yunnan more and more coal based plants are phased out because there is surplus of hydropower. Over the last years enormous amount of wind power generators have been installed and near Dali is one of the biggest solar farms in China.
Changes include as well the use of wind power to create fertiliser.
The other change is that Kunming's traffic has turned into stop-go-stop traffic. Electric propulsion is in this case can be less polluting then fossil fuel driven propulsion. Carbon and NOx emissions per km might be lower in these situations even if the electricity is coal based.

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