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2 copies of the translation should suffice. I don't recall needing more than that.

Yunnan is too close to Tibet, so any reason that isn't related to tourism or long road trip to border areas or Sichuan.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Renting a car to see Yunnan independently

It's highly unlikely there are legitimate outfits in Beijing that can provide you a valid driving license for China. Of course, this being China, they might be able to provide you a valid license using some illegit means. However, that comes at a price and risk should the license turn out not to be official. That money would be better spent on a driver for such a short trip.

Getting a valid license via the traditional transfer/paperwork/exam method will consume more time than 2 weeks allow.

There are flights to Lijiang, and you could use that as a jumping off point for Tiger and Shangrila via buses.

That being said, one of the best drives in Yunnan would be the eastern ring road from the east Tiger entrance to Shangrila, and buses don't take that route.

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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.