Forums > Living in Kunming > earplugs in Kunming Anyone have any idea where to buy earplugs in Kunming?
I tried the main pharmacies, and Watsons, to no avail.
By the way, just to be clear (since the manager at Watsons wasn't), when I say "earplugs" I'm talking about the rubber or foam things you stick in your ears when you want to block sound, not earphones, which are for listening to music.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Purchasing tickets for the South Asia Expo Anyone have any idea where to purchase tickets?
Searched for the Expo on Baidu, found a half-assed website, which doesn't contain any information about tickets, and the contact information provided on the website doesn't work.
Can we just show up and buy tickets at the door? I'm just worried that with all the security concerns they may demand to see my ticket before they let me into the grounds...
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Where to find cheap tents? I bought all my camping gear from a little store behind the WalMart at Xiaoximen. The tent was on sale. About 150, I think. It's held up pretty well.
Forums > Food & Drink > New Thai restaurant? Thanks. That definitely looks like the place I was told about. I went right down that street. Don't know how I missed it.
Forums > Food & Drink > New fruit in the market Fruit in Kunming does seem expensive, but it's cheaper than in a lot of other bigger Chinese cities. Fruit in Beijing, for example, is through the roof.
Of course, it depends on the supply chains. Shandong peaches and Xinjiang melons are going to cost more in Kunming.
But lucky for Kunming, it's close to a lot of fruit-growing regions, both temperate and tropical.
My favorite fruit season in Yunnan is winter, when we get strawberries, oranges, and my favorite, sugarcane.
Although I do look forward to Mango season every summer. I heard Yuanjiang's even got a Mango Festival.
Life in Kunming: A cabbie's perspective
Posted byYereth,
How did you take that picture where the cab in the foreground is perfectly clear but the background is blurry?
A glimpse into the life of a Kunming fruit seller
Posted byVery cool article. I've often been fascinated by the paths that commodities take from the farm to the market. I think those of us foreigners living in Yunnan are very lucky. Much of the produce we get is coming from this very province. There are a lot of people in our home countries who can not say that. There are a lot of people in other provinces in China who cannot say that, either.
On a related note, here's a series of maps I made a while back of agricultural commodities in Yunnan:
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Kunming launches first sightseeing bus
Posted byA cooler Kunming day tour would be by bicycle.
Hiking from Daju to Lugu Lake, part 2
Posted byA few things have changed since this article was researched.
The bridge over the Yangtze at Fengke is now open. And the main road from Ninglang to Lijiang is closed from 2014 until at least 2016. All traffic from Lijiang to Lugu Lake now passes along the new road through Fengke.
I was in this same region by bicycle a few weeks ago, following the new road, but criss-crossing with Adam and Yang Xiao's trail at times. You can read about my experience here:
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Hiking from Daju to Lugu Lake, part 1
Posted byA few weeks ago I did a bike ride which overlaps a lot with the hike Adam describes here. Not exactly, of course. Adam was on the old trails, and I was on the new road. Still, it was an amazing place for cycling. Read about it on my blog here: matthartzell.blogspot.com/[...]