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Forums > Living in Kunming > Living in Dianchi Road or KIA/Guandu neighborhoods

The KIA is off Guangfu lu, NOT in Guandu area, just to be clear. Its pretty far away, but not too bad at all. Lived out that way for a couple of years now and its fine. The Wicker Basket south (www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item/32966/wicker_basket) is where most westerners congregate out there and most seem to live in and around that little neighbourhood. There is a small "Kiwi cafe" just up the road from Wicker Basket too which make OK kiwified western food.

It can be a bit of a mission accessing Wenlin Jie area however, there are buses that go and a subway from the Nanya mall in the far future (probably 5 years away). But if you are keen on cycling its about 30 minutes by bike (average person speed) or about 20 if you are fast! By e-bike is about the same a little bit quicker probably for most.

Guandu area is even further, but with the addition of the subway nearby I am sure it now feels a lot closer! Getting a subway to Chuanxin Gulou Station station and busing or walking from their to Wenlin Jie is a decent option now (though I haven't done it personally). Expat services are few and far between out Guandu way though with Napa Valley being the closest I believe? There are your normal supermarkets out there too though.

There may be a Metro going up on the South Side of Da Shang Hui too, intersection with Guangfu Lu, which should considerably improve the services out there (if the sign I read was to be believed!).

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Who will win the World Cup?

Brazil-Portugal final, Brazil coming out on top and completing the fairy tale! Providing Portugal lose tonight to Germany putting them on the opposite side of the playoffs to Brazil.

Would have put Spain up there before the start, but after that shocker against Netherlands... can't rate them!

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Cultural Colonialism

Who here is anti China mm? Tonyaod has been fair as far as I can tell,just a little excitable. However you evade questions put to you constantly...

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Forums > Food & Drink > World Cup Breakfast

Tough pool, Uruguay and Costa Rica! Both will be fighting pretty damn hard now... England might be lucky to get through this one, one more slip up and its all over red rover!

Oh and they also lost last night by 1 point to the All Blacks, just to rub it in a bit more! :-p

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Ha haa, Kunmingteacher, you have pedalled a classic global warming misapprehension. To see why, just like understanding climate is complex, you have to read the complex answer as to why, as stated here:www.realclimate.org/[...]

If you think about global warming logically, we are stripping forests at an amazing rate and replacing them with carbon (be it CO2 or methane) producing environments. At the same time we have created machines and electrical systems that pump billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere every year combined with a massive population. Do you think changing the fundamental way a complex system operates will have zero effect? It's like claiming that going from heaps of exercise to zero exercise will have no effect on your health. Dreaming.

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Cheers Geezer, dang, we are going to miss it then. I saw this one was on the 23rd last year so was hoping for similar time.

There is a line on that site you posted that says "Horse races" in Zhongdian for the 12the of June, but thats still a bit early for us, bugger.

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One has to wonder if the real motivation of reintroducing rhinos is because they are running out of horn and need the population to increase in order to get more horns... I bet some poachers are salivating at the picture!

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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.

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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!)

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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!

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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!