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Forums > Food & Drink > eat dog meat?

There were a lot of dog meat restaurants near the North Station but they all have gone. There are several dog BBQ places all over town (After eight in the evening). One place is at Cuiyu road.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Where to buy curtains in Kunming?

At O-Park in the south. West of Qianxing road. (O-Park East of the road has everything else for your house.). At the east side are about 25 curtain shops.

A cheap option is to buy rolling down bamboo curtains. Can be found at the same place.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Fish Pedicure?!

Well this fish pedicures are the latest fashion. Meanwhile in Europe a whole debate is started about this because there are quite some issues. They range from the point that they are not good for people and not good for the fish as well.

These fish apparently are algae eaters. To make them eat human skin they are first nearly starved to death because normally they would not do this.

In order to be comfortable the water is at about 27 degrees. This is ideal for all kind of bacteria and other pathogens. You stick your feet in what basically is a rich mix of diseases fed by previous users.

Good luck with it !

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Solar/Windmill/Deep Cycle Batteries/Building Supplies in Jinghon/Menla

If you can find a solar-power company there that provides quality systems and guarantees maintenance and preferably a performance guarantee package than yes. This will however not be cheap.

The underlying message from my earlier post is that you forget all about it.

What they sell just on the market in Thailand is Chinese products with an added price for import and transport.

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This is the parking place of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Looks like it happened at night because during the day this parking is full of cars and busses. The road is on the left of the picture and must be closed off as well. Clearing this will take some time because one cannot push the debris just over the edge because there is the Tiger Leaping Gorge itself. Might be nice to have a second big stone laying in the middle of the stream but that rock is bit too large to move in one piece.

As usual in reports in the local press the numbers are wrong. The big rock in the middle alone is 30 cubic meters (compared to the buildings in the back). The debris must be chopped up and even blasted to smaller pieces and then carted off. Pity that these horrible plaster murals on the hillside have not been destroyed.

I don't know when you went to Luguhu but the road between Lijiang and Lugu has improved enormously over the last few years and the new road between Lugu lake and Ninglang has been completed and is now one of the best roads in Yunnan. From there the road is the old road to Lijiang and a bit congested at certain spots. Indeed just outside Lijiang the road is a total mess because of road-works. The old road is completely destroyed by heavy trucks here going between the cement works and Lijiang (A common problem in China; modern trucks can carry more load then the road have been designed and build for and therefore destroy the roads).
I travelled this road earlier this month and it took me 5 hours to cover the Lugu Lake / Lijiang distance. Once the road works have been completed it might take 4 hours. That is half the time it took me in 2009.
Travelling from Xichang in Sichuan still takes a full day and from Chengdu I would do it in two days. (Many road improvement works here as well.).
Your statement that "the Sichuan side was much less developed than the opposite shore" I cannot agree with. On the contrary: Apart from Luoshui (The only village at the lake) the Yunnan side has hardly been touched by tourism while the Sichuan side has seen rapid touristic development.
One of the nice things of Lugu lake is/was that it is less over-run by tourists. Something that spoiled it for me in Lijiang and Shangri-La. A new airport will hasten the process of it becoming one more of the "shopping mall" tourist towns like Lijiang. Already now I noticed that more and more local business women (The local Mosuo culture is matrilineal and this mend that most shops, restaurants and hotels were owned and run by women) have been replaced by outsiders (Mostly Sichuan businessmen) and that part of the atmosphere has gone.
Note as well that the area has an access fee of 80 RMB per person.

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