Forums > Travel Yunnan > Get An Invitation Letter from Chinese Travel Agenc do you have itinerary with hotel bookings? if so no letter needed. if not then you kinda need a sponsor/local chinese person to be responsible for you when here. dont think they really want backpackers here anymore. shame to say. maybe package tours but who wants to go on one of those. lots of other more welcoming places in asia.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Circumcision say 12... common age for winkie cropping in islam too
Forums > Living in Kunming > Advice on working as a tour guide for Spanish ppl points to note. chinese are bad tippers, generally, if they do tip well it can be conspicous, but even if not will be new rich middle class. until recent tipping in china was illegal and the tipping culture hasn't really developed yet. budget coach packages especially stingy. these are people looking to pay the least, and they in turn are being cheated sby the tour company at every corner, and you are the face of the company. as for discarding people, no surprises in china, unless you are family or you are of some other value, you are just a thing to be used. cold hard reality here.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Circumcision there is a bigger issue, the society you were born into. easy as outsiders to judge others as primitive, savage, etc. hey it could be worse you could be an infidel. parental responsibility also includes yuor child being accepted in the society theyu were born into. many are circucised at a coming of age ceremony, everyone in the community would know if they didnt get done. in cultures with extended family vertically and horizontally have a wide network. how can i recommend a relative as a husband to my network if i know he is considered unclean, even if i dont have a problem with him not being done. even if he gets married his wife will know on the wedding night and the marriage would probably be annulled. so now the child is condemend to grow up under a cloud and not be able to participate in cultural and reeligious life of his family and community. this would be a lifetime of pain.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is Chenggong a ghost town? come on rainfly, even the government workers had to be forced to go to chenggong. no prizes for guessing who you work for as a cheerleader
We're number 2! China releases "livable cities" index
Posted byfair go. but qd has nice sea walks and kunming transit not that great either really. as for floating condoms, you find that in europe too, and certaily would nt swim dianchi. sure it was a condom, and not a cuttlefish in a wetsuit ;-)
Rainy season arrives in Yunnan with a vengeance
Posted bysounds like spin. would require spending. it will be like the keep dianchi green initiative, anything that looks like we are doing something not involving cost. one solution would be to direct all of the water down the metro tunnels, might as well use them for something.
Lijiang vendors strike, protesting old town entry fee
Posted bythats like more than a few mill for every km of road and buildings
Lijiang vendors strike, protesting old town entry fee
Posted bynumbers dont add up. $433m buys a hell of a lot of maintenace, specially with china labor costs. where is the money going?
Chinese village turns to mass divorce in face of impending demolition
Posted bysad thing is, those who do not divorce will be ridiculed by those who did. if if if they get two apartments. remember what article said about this.