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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Traveling overland from Yunnan to Thailand

You will have to get a Lao visa at the border - the bus will stop there for you. You have to be out of China by midnight of the 30th. Advise you not to take the bus all the way to Chiangmai, it's too long a bus ride. You can get a bus from Jinghong to Luang Namtha in Laos any morning about 10 o'clock.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > You Think to Much?

I like the Taoist story, but I also think that 'being practical' - a Chinese virtue - can be overdone and can be merely another word for selfishness and sometimes for hopelessness and passivity in the face of Authority/Power in regard to the real possibilities of changing things for the better.
On the other hand, I sometimes think too much.

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When I hear Blackwater I think of armed mercenaries - as Peter says, American - but not the sort who fought as the Flying Tigers. I hope we hear accurate reports as to what these guys/this guy is/are going to do here in this super-rapidly growing economy.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.