Learning Mongolian gaoxing? I also didn't hang out at Salvadors too much, but I didn't find anyone snooty there, well not any more snooty than sitting in a nice cafe in the West.
Anything in Mongolia that is interesting? I thought about biking through there at one point, those massive wide open plains.
@JanJal - you probably can. But we don't want to risk that you cannot or that someone in the airline you board in the foreign country (Chinese airline) says "you cannot board the plane, because you cannot legally enter Hong Kong" even if you are in transit only. Or some official in Hong Kong doesn't quite know the rules (or is being obtuse).
As Tiger says - never assume. I think we will keep avoiding Hong Kong until all PRC citizens have free entry.
We are living outside China now. When we return to visit we actively have to avoid Hong Kong as the Chinese Embassy in our country apparently cannot process a Hong Kong entry visa for Chinese citizens from outside the main cities. So it doesn't get any better if you try to visit Hong Kong from overseas.
Ha haaa, great comment. Particularly ugly or plain apartments are now to be referred to as "sky turds". That is 95% of the ones you see when you look around.
Pretty easy way to test if this is a genuine Chinese person or not - ask them to start replying to questions in Chinese. Then get your wife/friend to read it to see if it makes sense.
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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!
Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.
We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.
If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.
Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!
One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)
This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.
You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.
Great bus though if you can catch it!
Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!
English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!
20 years in Yunnan with Jim Goodman
Posted byBrilliant story, good work GoKM! It explains who it was when I was in Chiang Mai and saw this crazy looking dude blasting around on his bike... Will definitely have to look his books up being completely unfamiliar with them.
Snapshot: Fuxian Lake from the air
Posted byGreat shots Mike, brilliant. With industry a new arrival, it probably won't be long before the lake is polluted to hell, I guess we should go and enjoy it while we can.
Metro Line 1 begins passenger trial period
Posted by40 seconds to get in and out? Its probably not enough time because everyone tries to get in and out at the same time, just like most subways on the Chinese mainland... something tells me if passengers obeyed the "exit to the sides" and "let everyone get off before you get on" rules, 40 seconds would be plenty of time. Instead there will be the middle-older women/men pushing past the people getting off to ensure they can get on.... meanwhile causing a massive deadlock bottleneck of passengers at the entrances/exits.
Yunnan's Party Secretary lays out vision for the future
Posted byLooking on google maps... that looks like one HELL of a water diversion. I don't get it though, will they pipe the water in? Dianchi is in a basin, as I understand it, with the catchment area of the rivers flowing into Dianchi only being within said basin which includes Kunming city and up into Jindian in the NE and similarly in the NW. Does this mean the water will have to be either taken over or through the mountains to get here (both must be via a pipeline)? Correct me if my understanding is incorrect, this seems pretty hardcore!
How bad is Kunming's air?
Posted byYou only have to think about my last fairly logical statement about complex systems (and study systems theory a bit) and the evedenciary recorded warming since the mid 1900's to realise global warming, or better "climate change", is not just a theory, but actually happening. I aren't saying don't keep questioning, I encourage particularly scientific evidence to the contrary, but denying human caused climate forcing now is equivalent to claiming the earth is flat. There is simply too much change in too short of a time span without a massive meteor or volcano to explain the current trend without attributing it to the human caused conditional change. If you still doubt it's us causing the change, I encourage people to suggest another cause of a 1 degree climb in global temps in a century.