Day 24 and 25/ 24. a 25 Den (26. - 27.02.2008)

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TO THE WARMER CLIMATE
Today we were hoping to go to warmer part of China Kunming. How little did we know.

But first we thought we should really see at least some of Chengdu's Temples so we GREEN RAM TEMPLE won our votes. Managed to find it with out any major problems, only we were not exactly sure that the temple we have found ourselves in front of was the one we wanted, but hey we were there so in we went.
It was very beautiful temple, however we were still puzzled which one it actually was, until we met two people from our hostels who confirmed we were in the right temple. And to our tradition we got stop by Chinese family who wanted to take a photo with us. We think we are most probably on dozen photos in families over china.

TRAIN TO KUNMING
Hard sleepers are the best, only we wish we could actually speak Chinese so we could have a proper conversation with the passengers. But a one very curious young boy, phrase book pen and paper and we are rolling... it was fun... we don't thing we have met such a nosey little Parker like this Chinese boy..

ARRIVAL KUNMING...
where the hell is the warm weather... it was colder than in Chengdu... you got to be kidding us... later on we have found out from fellow travellers that two days ago is was sunny and they were walking in T-shirts, only when we arrive the day after it decides to snow and rain... nice one Mr. Weather... cursed with bad spell of weather....

The same day as arriving to Kunming we went and applied for Lao visa and visited Western restaurant, where we had lovely spaghetti, shame on us, but we did really fancied something "normal" . We found our way back to hostel by using public bus, as we are so good and taking the public transport by now. In hostel we have met up with Mike (Irish) and Adda( polish) who we met back in Chengdu, had few beers and arranged to go next day to see Stone Forest and as we were freezing our asses off anyway it started to snow...

DO TEPLYCH KRAJU
Dnes jsme doufaly, ze se konecne dostaneme nekde kde je tepleji - Kunming. Jak malo jsme jen tusily.

Nejdrive jsme se vsak rozholdy, ze bychom preci jen mely videt nejake chramy v Chengdu, takze "GREEN RAM TEMPLE" vyhrala. Podarilo se nam to najit bez jakychkoliv velkych problemu, pouze jsme si nebyly jisty jestli je to opravdu ten pravy chram. Ale vypadolo to dobre tak jsme tam vlezly.
Bylo to tam moc a moc pekne, ale porad nam vrtalo v hlave, v kterem chramu to vlastne jsme, ale pak jsme potlaly dva lidicky z naseho hostelu, kteri nam potvrdili, ze jsme tu spravne. A zase tradicne jsme zkoncili na fotografii jedne cinske rodinky, mame takovy pocit, ze nase ksychty ma na fotkach alespon pul ciny.

VLAK DO KUNMINGU
"Hard sleepers" jsou nejlepsi, jen bychom strasne rady rozumely cinsky, alespon bychom si mohly pokecat. Ale nas nejake jazykove bariery nezastavy, jeden strasne zvedavy cinsky chlapec, tuska a papir, knizecka z frazema, balicek karet a uz jedem...

PRIJEZD DO KUNMINGU
Kde je do haje to teplo.. je tu mnohem chladneji nez v Chengdu... to si delate prdel.. pozdeji nam ostatni cestovatele zdelili, ze pred dvouma dny tady bylo slunecno a vsichni chodili v trickach, pouze kdyz my dorazime tak se na druhy den rozhodne snezit a prset.. pekne... smula se nam lepi na paty... no spise spatne pocasi...

Ten samy den jsme zazadaly o Laoske visa a dali si papani ve restauraci pro cizince, spagety, mnam, no jo ono clovek po delsi dobe potrebuje neco domackeho. Z nasi skvelou orientaci ve MHD jsme se dostaly zpet do hostelu, kde jsme potkaly Mika ( ir) a Addu ( polka), ktere jsme uz potkaly v Chengdu. Dali jsme si par piv a domluvili se na dalsi na vylet na Stone Forest.. no a protoze nam byla uz tak kosa tak se jeste rozhodlo zacit snezit ...

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