I don't know if it's cheap, but you can try elong.com
They take international credit cards for a 3% service fee and have english speaking customer service.
Ctrip.com is same
It's not a practical solution, but you could live in Chenggong if you need fast speeds all day. There is probably brand new wire for an entire city there shared among like 30 families.
Wasn't there a moderator account created so GoKunming staff could reply or address things it felt incorrect or off topic. Deletion of posts and thread locking is literally heavy handed. Feels like a slap in the face to a long time contributor.
BillDan, don't go. The site will be less interesting without your contributions.
sean1 makes a good point. You should factor into your standard of living how many hours and how many students will be in your class to earn your 3500rmb with housing and chinese lessons. Also, since the school is providing the latter, you're left with x factors on the quality of those, unless you have checked things out for yourself already.
Short; You will eat and drink quite well.
Long; Part of the standard of living costs in Kunming are determined by how much you wish to pay for rent. You can pay more and live in a nice modern centrally located complex with western toilet and electric hot water. As you don't seem to know what type of housing you will be receiving or are just willing to take whatever the school provides, then the rest of your standard of living is mostly determined by how well you eat and drink. After deducting internet, mobile, transportation, and utilities, you should easily have around 3k rmb per month for food and drink, which is quite a lot for Kunming. You can eat local Chinese food for less than 30rmb a day. Other expenses are all within in your control more or less, such as eating Western food or traveling to other parts of Yunnan. Maybe not the traveling to other parts of Yunnan, since that's why a lot of people choose to come to Kunming.
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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.
Snapshot: Grand Canyon of the East
Posted byI think you guys went back for the food! Man that last picture is making me hungry.
Getting Away: Vang Vieng
Posted byRegarding the roads, my impression was the opposite. I left Vientiane for VV via bus and found the road ok. From VV to Luang Prabang the road was quite miserable.
Nothing better than floating down the river with some of your friends; however, avoid the bar with the giant concrete slide. A Swiss guy drowned last year after using the slide, and it's cause innumerable other injuries to party-goers. Also, the tube doesn't make up for not being a good swimmer.
Safety concerns plague national school lunch program
Posted byVery happy that poor kids are getting a free meal at school...Very sad they are forced to eat spoiled food at times.
I think the children should be given 3rmb food vouchers to be spent with the local chefs and vendors outside the school. No more troubles for the schools to operate a kitchen, and the children can decide with their pocketbook (aka vouchers) which vendors food tastes best. If no food vendors can make decent food for 3rmb per child, then the gov't knows why the schools are forced to use rotten stuff at times.
First-hand account: Setting up a guesthouse in Xishuangbanna
Posted byHas The Balcony Guesthouse opened for business? Would be very curious if there was an update to the article, which was excellent reading.