Let's hope it's newbie staff and not policy. If not, it just got 30-42usd more expensive. It still seems weird that they would care. What if Laos didn't let you in for some unforseen reason. China would strand you on that road? Nice enough road though, lots of shrubbery.
@Napoleon. Read his prior post. It's Vietnam he is referring too.
Why can't they revalue to some nice number like ten or five. Dividing by six is too hard for me.
The China exit and reentry are in different buildings. Just exit and walk to the reentry building and see what they say, cause that's all that matters. If they let you back in, without the Laos stamps, then that's that. Asking the China officials at the exit building is pointless. After exiting wait 30min to an hour. Might take sometime to log your exit into their system.
Cool, didn't know about the graphite powder.
@laofengzi. Yeah, air quality is great but getting splashed with sewer backflow not so great haha.
There is severe flooding in Myanmar, India, and Pakistan this year. Luckily, we are at the tail end of the monsoons. Definetely going to be more rainy for us, but so far liviable.
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Never gotten sick once at Sals. Their food is TexMex, so yeah, not authentic Mexican food, but pretty authentic as TexMex goes. Burrito wrap has improved a lot. Like the draft beer option now.
If you haven't had dairy products in a while, and do eat here, best forgo the sour cream. Nothing wrong with it, in fact it's the best sour cream in Kunming, but if you've eaten Chinese for month or months with no dairy intake, your system will react to sour cream or probably any liquid dairy product not so well. Maybe that's what happened with nailer and tallamerican.
Update:
It's now 5 working days for regular processing. So I submitted my application a bit before 5pm on a Friday and was told to pick it up next week Friday after 5pm.
Cost is now 400rmb for a single 30 day entry. Or that was what I was charged anyways. There are no posted prices and its cash only with no receipt except for your passport pickup. That's like $65 USD.
You can pay another 150rmb for 2 day or 100rmb for 3 day processing. For 400rmb, they should process it in three days like they used to before, but now you'd pay 500rmb. The office is still like deserted most of the time, so why does it take longer now and cost extra. If you opted for 2 day, thats like $90 usd. All other neighboring countries charge like $25usd.
The rest of and cope review is still good for hours and location.
Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.
Like everyone else says, best Indian food in Kunming. They have lunch plates and dinner plates. Show up before 1pm for lunch.
They are on the 4th floor of the half empty shopping mall. Best way is too take the elevator past the KFC around the corner from Starbucks.
Most individual dishes can feed only two hungry guys, so order more if you are starving. Naan order can take care of one only.
Five stars for the food. Go with Yereth's recommendations, plus any vegetable the waitress says is fresh.
Beware that Xue Fu lu is one way, so many taxis have to take a roundabout way to get here.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
Posted byThe roads near Tengchong are ruined by the sheer number of trucks carrying logs. You can tell the trade is one way, as the side of the road coming from Burma is much worse than the direction heading back. Heavy laden trucks in; empties back for more jade or timber.
Red panda detained, held for questioning
Posted byIn extra time, Humans 1: RedPanda 0.
Kindergarten prices in Kunming set to triple
Posted byWhy is there a 3:2 ratio of boys to girls.
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted by松化坝 should be corrected to 松华坝.
Yunlong Dali is not the same as Yunlong Reservoir. The comment by Wen Tao is accurate.
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
Posted byThose neighborhoods have the least guangxi and probably pay the low or subsidized rates. I live right across a major street from one of those, but in a modern highrise. Will be interesting to see if my water flows unabated while they get reduced pressure. If so, would be completely unfair.