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Forums > Living in Kunming > Idea about getting Taxi services better

To pay an extortion fee or bribe or whatever you call it only exacerbates the problem. Stop doing this. When the taxi drivers break the rules, report them so they get punished. The hardest problem to prove is Refusal of Service. In order to prove refusal of service, the burden of proof is on you so you must take pictures and have a recording. If you do not have these 2 pieces of evidence you are wasting your time. I have tried and have learned through trial and error. Just so you know, the biggest fine is for refusal of service - 1000 - 2000 RMB fine.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How long have you been in China? Kunming?

I have been in China for 11 years and spent 10 of those years in Yunnan. I left the USA for good with no intentions of ever going back. For anyone who has really travelled, you will agree that every country has good as well as bad people and good attributes as well as negative ones. Yunnan has been wonderful for me and I am happy to accept the good and a few inconveniences. Overall, China is a great place to live and it continues to change rapidly.

I travel often, at least once per week, and I have been to every nook and crannie in Yunnan and hope to explore more in the future. Going to out of the way places is great because the people enjoy meeting foreigners and are mesmerized when they see a foreigner. Staring has never bothered me and I take it as a complement rather then a burden. Unless you want to have deep conversations with the people, language is not a barrier. Especially, since the places I visit have few people who speak mandarin anyway. With my limited chinese, I have been able to visit so many places and been able to communicate with eye contact, gestures, a smile, and a piece of paper with my final destination written in Chinese and pinyin. With each passing day my vocabulary grows and I feel like Marco Polo travelling in China for the very first time.

When I am not travelling, I teach University students (English majors only) for free as well as a select few of primary school students who can pass PETS 1 test in the 2nd and 3rd (8-9 years old) grade. I dont have to put up with those rich kids who are lazy and dont want to learn because I can pick and choose only the best kids who truly want to learn.

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I have 2 balconies in my apartment so I have a small garden. I compost all my vegetable waste and I feed it to the worms in my worm garden. Over the years I have put all this into the red Yunnan dirt that I got from outside and now my soil is rich, loose and black.

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Even wiki is equally inept - The Ludila Dam is an under construction gravity dam on the Jinsha River near Lijiang in Yunnan province, China. Construction on the dam began in 2007 and was halted in June 2009 by the Ministry of Environmental Protection after it was being constructed without approval.

Near Lijiang? I can name at least 3 prefectures in Yunnan that are near Lijiang.

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Nothing annoys me more than reading an article that does not clearly answer the 5Ws. When the reader has more questions after reading an article that is proof to me of poor writing.

Is this dam in Lijiang or Dali? I am sure this dam has to belong to a certain county.

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The new Visa office is located at 118 Tuo Dong Road. There is no number on the building yet so do not bother to look for it. There are 2 passport photo shops on either side of the building. The office is located directly in front of the Kunming Museum. The bus stop is named - Shi Bo Wu Guan - Bus 1, 62, 109, 117, 145, 213, A1 and K3 stop directly in front of the office. Foreigners need to go to the 3rd floor. The Tuo Dong Stadium is located to the right of the office while Baita Road is located to the left of the office.