Blogs from Kunming, Yunnan, China, Asia - page 25

Hey Everybody! So, I'm here in Kunming, pretty much settled into my apartment. The apartments for foreign teachers are gigantic! We get a huge living room (which is completely empty, of course...who'd have though I should have brought a rug and random wall hangings?), a nice bedroom (with two beds! So come visit me!), a bathroom (currently suffering from a cockroach infestation), and a silly kitchen (it is silly because it contains neither kitchen utensils nor any sort of cooking device). We don't start teaching until August 25th (or maybe later, who knows?), so Barbara and I have been spending lots of time reading in our apartments and wandering the city. The other day we went on a huge expedition to the city's Catholic Church (they get exactly one). The people we met were really friendly, ... read more

(Day 108 on the road)22 hours on the train and a few instant noodle-pots later ("Have instant noodles, will travel" as Karen called it) I arrived in Kunming. I also managed to loose another hat on the train, the 4th one since I set off for this trip, perfect Ben. On the plus side, the Lonely Planet had said the trip from Guilin to Kunming was 26 hours, so I was positively surprised when the train pulled into Kunming station after only 22h. What is strange about these night trains is that all the Chinese travellers sleep fully dressed. In Russia and Mongolia, people would go through proper preparations to go to bed, i.e. changing into their pyjamas and so on before going to bed. In China, the people just flop on their bunks, not much ... read more

Dear Patrons Welcome to our weekly news letter. The Staff at Different Perspectives try to bring a clearer picture of current events effecting China and Asia. Although we believe the international media driven primarily by western worlds interests, is bringing the public events as they happen, we at Different Perspectives are independent and non biased without an agenda for prestige or monetary profit. We simply feel the western world may be somewhat isolated from news that is local to our office here in Beijing, China. Thank you Different Perspectives Staff Edward I've been in Myanmar since July 1st. I came across the border at Ruili about 500km southwest of Kunming, China. A brief background on the logistics of arriving in Myanmar via a land border crossing. I had visa's in hand prior to leaving Beijing. ... read more

Hejsa alle Vi takker igen igen for de mange mails, det er altid dejligt at horer noget hjemmefra. Nu har vi taget hul paa vores fjerde uge (det gaar bare alt for staerkt.) og inden vi forlader Kina vil vi lige give lyd fra os igen. Efter vi skrev sidst havde vi en endnu en dag i Lijiang, som blev brugt paa en cykeltur udenfor byen. Vi cyklede ud sammen med Daniel, britten som vi ogsaa var i Tiger Springskloften med. Da vi havde lidt vanskeligheder med en af cyklerne, maatte vi vende om for at bytte cyklen og Daniel cyklede videre, saa dagen blev paa egen haand. (jacob kunne ikke lave cyklen selvom han laante en svensknogle af en kinesisk lastbilchauffor :-)) Naeste dag tog vi tidlig om morgenen til Lugu Lake, som ligger 7 ... read more

After finally leaving my hotel room having not eaten for two days I passed on my bug to Steve leaving him bed bound. I'm a bad wife I know. I went for a walk having not seen any of Kunming. Getting down the road I saw loads of commotion, people waving flags and shouting "China". Without realising it I'd caught on to the tail end of the Olympic torch relay coming through the city! It was really exciting even the little kids had China t-shirts and stickers on their faces (they really know how to do merchandise over here). I followed it for a while but sod's law I didn't have a camera on me. I ran back to the hotel, got the camera and two of the girls who were on the tour with us ... read more