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!
Riding into Kunming's future
Posted byHa haa, Ocean, is this you: en.kunming.cn/index/content/2012-06/28/content_3001224_6.htm
Some laowai flying out on the first day!
Riding into Kunming's future
Posted byCool, so for now the best way (cheapest probably and get to ride the new rail system!) to the airport is a bus to the East Bus Station then rail to the airport. Excellent!
The drought: Good and bad news
Posted by766,000 cubic metres of water a day...
Say 7,660,000 residents (roughly to make calculation easy) = 0.1 cubic metres of water per day or 100L per resident. By western standards, thats pretty good for a city (which of course includes industry water usage etc). But of course it could be better (how many people would use anywhere near 100l? For myself it equates to around 20-40L including a shower!).
The average for China for all water use is 700 m3 per person or roughly 2 m3 per day, but that includes agricultural users who are providing us city people with food which requires lots of water. Probably the biggest impact you could have for reducing your water consumption is: eat less meat as it requires so much water to grow, particularly beef. However that is indirect consumption so much less measurable than direct water savings.
Interview: Deng Ling
Posted byAhh OK, sorry, I must have skipped a paragraph before! The new photo threw me off completely!
Interview: Deng Ling
Posted byInteresting, did you update this article? You probably should have made an addendum to the bottom rather than actually re-write stuff... gets confusing for us readers... much better of Deng Ling on the drums though, girls playing drums are hot :-)