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Forums > Living in Kunming > Air Quality!!! Kunming Not So Good.

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I too like per capita rankings. But then I realized the environment could care less if a mound of garbage comes from 100 small people or 10 big wasteful ones. Is that fair? Nope. Does Planet Earth care about human math? Nope. It just sees a large mound of garbage coming it's way.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Short-term storage in Kunming?

It's usually giant room with tagged bags. I have never had a problem as they require ID, but I have never left bags longer than 6 hours. They will allow overnight, but it should cost a bit more.

The Shanghai airport has individual lockers with magnetic cards. Never tried Kunming airport.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Short-term storage in Kunming?

I've been able to find storage at most train stations in China for 10-15rmb per day. It's usually outside around the station entrance. Sometimes they have english directional signs saying Left Luggage. Never tried to the Kunming train station since I take my bags home.

Some bus stations also offer the bag storage, but the ones in Kunming are all so far out, it would suck to go there and find out they don't.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Air Quality!!! Kunming Not So Good.

Very few factories exist in Kunming. Not that Kunming wouldn't love to have them, but logistics and lazy labor pool make Kunming a very unattractive place to open one.

However, the 2nd ring road and beyond is just one apartment construction site after another. Add in the growth in trucks and cars others have mentioned plus a drought, you have more than enough reasons why Kunming air is on the fast track downhill. Whether this can be reversed in the future, or we will end up like Chengdu will remain to be seen.

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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.