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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

There are lots of hotels and hostels in KMG.

Perhaps someone can recommend a good one near to the Uni that taxis will know about.

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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

Spring Holiday is 9-15 Feb 2013. The 16th is a Saturday and this will be a working day. However, new students may start the following week.

Be prepared, all travel during the holiday will be more expensive and flights can be hard to book.
Book early.

Check semester start dates for your course. It might be you will fly after the holiday.

Consider arriving a week before to acclimatize, as we are at about 6000ft (1900m) altitude here. You can also then get a feel for Kunming in slow time and enjoy the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) on the 9th (eve) and 10th.

When flying check the best route. Shanghai to Kunming is a premium route and discounts are rare. There are direct flights from Kuala Lumpur to Kunming on Air Asia, I believe. Air Asia flies to KL from most other global air transport hubs. You may also be able to fly into Chungdu, before transiting to Kunming.

Just some thoughts.

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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

The spring courses usually start immediately after the Spring Festival holiday.

Follow the procedure for visa as laid out by YNU. If they say come on a tourist visa, then maybe you will have to, but I don't think they will. I have been known to be wrong though.

My comments before were more advice against playing fast and loose with the visa system. People have come unstuck. But if YNU advise a certain course of action it will be within the rules. The universities are more accountable to central government for the foreigners they are responsible for, as compared to the private schools.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 101 Good Reasons to live in China

I am pretty sure there is an under reported drug problem here as well. They have recently introduced new regs to control some of the OTCs because they contain the main ingredient of a hard drug (meth? can't recall). Yunnan is also a centre for cross border trade, remember the Mekong River Massacre last year. This was not about small shipments.

As a result of the trade there are many users of several hard drugs. It is not all just weed.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Voicemail on China Mobile

My wife's iphone has the voice sms type app. (record a message and send). She is using ChinaUnicom.
I know this is not answer-phone, but if you cannot get an answer, you could follow up with a voice message.

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It is not so much the extra pressure on the environment that global tourism will cause, it is the effects that would occur if birdwatching becomes a more national phenomenon. I have seen the disruption caused by twitchers in the UK. If we multiply the potential for problems by the numbers factor (just look at any tourist site in Yunnan), this does require a lot of serious thought. The thought of a 'Birdline' China is a bit scary.

The guest houses lakeside may well have been permanently hit, but how long ago was that? 1 or 2 years now? A year is a long time in Chinese business development.
The guesthouse trade will migrate a few hundred meters, creating new opportunities, if it has not already done so. I think the recovery has already taken a strong hold. Judging by the level of business I saw last week, and speaking to one local business owner.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.