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Forums > Study > Looking for a quiet place with free WIFI

Hi Chicha78, I agree with you, which is why I don't go to the French Cafe very often. Even when I do, the owner has never said hi to me so I'd much rather go to the Slice of Heaven where smoking is banned and the owner is very friendly and the atmosphere is relaxed and quiet.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > first of two things I can not stand living in kunming

@zhulaoye, I don't get the whole "must keep windows open all the time". A well known cafe/bakery owner here in Kunming had a thief scale up 8 floors to her window, which was open to steal something. Strange that he didn't fall to his death on the way up and while I wouldn't worry about robbers trying to break into a room many floors up, I have an allergy for cold - I am used to the tropics so in winter my windows are always completely closed for months and even so, I still feel cold inside due to the singled paned windows and no heating.

I need 5 blankets and a hot water bottle to keep me comfortable at night. I don't understand how local people here who constantly keep their windows open don't freeze to death, when temperatures at night fall down to the freezing mark. Anyway, not generally my problem, but it has been an issue when I've shared my apartment with Chinese roommates. I close the windows, they re-open them, I close them again...

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Laos questions

Hard to say - essentially the only boat trips I am aware of include the Jinghong (Chiang Rung) to Chiang Saen (Thailand) trip, followed by the Huay Xai to Luang Prabang trips. Luang Prabang to Vientiane is rarely done by boat anymore, though I suppose that during the rainy season there might be some services.

As for the visa if you need one, if you catch the Jinghong-Chiang Saen service, you'll first end up in Thailand and can then purchase a Lao visa at Huay Xai (opposite Chiang Khong) on arrival. You could also get a Lao visa in Jinghong just in case.

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It's clear who the brainwashed one is in this story - the western traveler (Thor). The locals know that Ebola wasn't what it was purported to be, hence why there was no need to take any special precautions.

Kunming seems to experience more disruptive and severe flooding than low lying cities such as Bangkok and Jakarta. Could be of course that these cities tend to have very predictable rainfall patterns and while their drainage systems are often clogged with garbage, flooding tends to be short-lived and confined to local areas rather than city wide. Upcountry towns located near rivers are the ones sometimes impacted by more widespread and severe flooding, again almost always during the rainy season. Of course there are also various parts of China, particularly in the central part of the country where flooding is a regular occurrence.

Good article but a few inaccuracies. This border crossing opened as an international border to foreigners in possession of Myanmar visas on August 28, 2013, not only 2016. Since then it has been possible to visit this area then proceed to other parts of Myanmar by air (or vice versa). The on-arrival permit system for foreigners without visas is still in place, reportedly the requirement to have a guide (for 1000 Baht a day and payment must be in Baht) is still in existence if you don't have a Myanmar visa, but with the e-visa system now it would seem rather odd not to go for a Myanmar visa even if you're only going to Kengtung and coming back the same way - you'll even save money by not needing a guide. You can always hire a guide for trekking around Kengtung. Of course, a guide may also come in handy if you intend on traveling by car with driver, however, it is not possible to travel west of Kengtung towards Taunggyi by road, except with a permit, though I hear none have been issued since around Dec 2016.

Many thousands of Thais cross the border between Mae Sai and Tachilek daily, so the author is greatly misleading readers when he claims only 5000 crossed last year. If he meant 5000 non-Thai foreigners, he may have been right but there are surely as many (if not more) Thai daytrippers crossing this border as has been the case for years, as Chinese who cross to Mengla or Muse from their respective border towns on the Chinese side. This is partially the case due to Mae Sai being an official border crossing for many years (by comparison, Mengla is not an official crossing even for Chinese) and there is a large market on the Burmese side that Thais like to visit.

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