The last time I attempted to go to the Kunming Museum, the whole facility was closed for renovations. Admittedly, that was 2009 and I never bothered to check up on it since. Thanks for reminding me.

Other than the Flying Tigers exhibit, what other exhibits are there in the museum?

"Foreigners who travel and stay outside of the allowed stay or residence area"

???

Since when are there geographic limitations on where foreigners can go and stay (other than the obvious...Tibet and military zones).
I know that was the case in the 80s and early 90s but this is the first I've heard of it since then

How long has this place been brewing beer?
Very cool. Thanks for finding this and writing it up.

The purpose of the expedition was to assess the feasibility of developing a tourism industry running the river. My understanding is they pretty much came to the conclusion that although the river can be feasibly run by experts, the feasibility of training locals to provide river running services would be next to zero.

Not to mention the fact that the dams going up on all three rivers will make river running impossible.

So experts out there, now's the time to get out there and do this before it's too late!

I heard a story associated with the making of this film. Edward Norton was in Kunming assisting his father with the project, and went to Salvadores. He's such a low-key celebrity that no one there even recognized him.

Great to see articles about this part of Yunnan.

The specific bus route the author mentions from Baoshan which passes the bridge is the bus from Baoshan to Nansan (南伞), a county town in Lincang Prefecture on the border with Myanmar, itself a pretty interesting place. There may be others, but this is the only one I know about. The bus makes a ten minutes bathroom stop just before crossing the bridge.
It doesn't actually take the old Huitong bridge, but rather a newer bridge some 500 meters downstream. There's unfortunately not really enough time to see the old bridge during the restroom stop, and there's only one bus a day from Baoshan to Nansan, so you can't catch the next bus without spending the night, and that's difficult because ther'es no hotel there, just some run-down shacks selling tamarind and mangoes.

It's possible there are other buses that ply this route, but I can't confirm that. There's really not a lot along this route other than the Nujiang River. Very few settlements of any kind. Beautiful though!