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Forums > Living in Kunming > Chenggong

You will find a distinct lack of all of the above. Get a really big refrigerator as restaurants aren't plenty either.

There is a spa next to the Howard Johnson. That was the only thing I thought useful out there.

If you teach at the uni, maybe you can use the student's gym facilities.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Where to get dry ice in Kunming?

Dry Ice - never seen it used or for sale in Kunming. Even regular ice is pretty hard to come by.

I have seen plastic coolers for sale in the camping or auto sections of Carrefour or Walmart. The coolers were a bit pricey. Regular plastic food containers of all shapes and sizes sold there too.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Japanese encephalitis vaccine?

@HFCAMPO

Sorry to say, but you are the person who began and falls into the "confuse you even more regarding your question"

I posted two links that addressed Natsymir's question directly and didn't rail against or evangelize vaccines. Your reply decidedly turned this into a pro/anti vaccine thread. I'd prefer not to have this spiral into a bloated thread similar to the Laowai thing, so I think comments from now on should address the OP's question.

HFCAMPO, appreciate your other insightful posts related to travel. We disagree on vaccines, but adults can agree to disagree.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > How to get to Fuxian lake?

@ludwig

"Beware of the kidnappers, though" !?!? That got my attention!

Please elaborate as I plan on biking down to the lake sometime during the summer.

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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.

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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.

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Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.

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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.

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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.