Blogs from Kunming, Yunnan, China, Asia - page 27

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 ... read more

HEADING TO LAO BOARDER As we had to leave China by the 03.03 we knew we have to head down to the boarder so the plan was to pick our visa today get ticket and cross the boarder. Buying ticket was not that difficult, sleeper bus to Jinghong than change to Mengla, then to Laos easy peasy... You would have to see the sleeping bus, me and Reni knew we would get quite close on this trip, but never realised how close that would be until we had to sleep on this bus with other three Chinese people at the back. 10 hours on this bus was a killer but we have arrived at 6 am next day to Jinghong and than caught MINI bus to Mengla. When we say MINI bus we mean exactly mini ... read more

The trip to Kunming was (once I'd got the ticket) probably the easiest so far. I think this was largely due to the fact that I met an American guy, Canadian girl and a Chinese pilot, who was on vacation, on the train. I believe that they had already been on the train since it set out from Beijing, at this point well over twenty four hours into their journey. Boredom had obviously set in with them and I could sense that they were grateful of some fresh blood. Without further ado we made our way to the restaurant carriage where my new Chinese friend proceeded to order what seemed like all the food they had on the train. This in turn was washed down with a steady flow of beer. It wasn't a surprise therefore ... read more

Aujourdhui on quitte la Chine pour le Laos. On a passe des mois supherbes dans ce pays extraordinaire. Les dernieres jours on a eu dans le sud de la Chine, a Guilin, Yunhshou et Kunming. Le soleil et la chaleur arrive et avec le paysage vert. Notre dernier jour en Chine est consacre a la bouffe et .... La suite viendra du Laos. Bisou Nathalie, Sara, Lisa et Heiko... read more

hallo euch allen, einigen haben wir erzaehlt wie befaenden uns quasi auf dem weg nach dali, einer alten und vermutlich sehr schoenen stadt in west-yunnan. nun ja, die plaene haben sich mal wieder spontan geaendert aber diesmal aus freien stuecken. haben nochmal ueber den aufwand und die zur verfuegeung stehende zeit nach gedacht und kamen zu dem schluss, dass sich 10 stunden busfahrt nach dali und dann weitere 17-22 stunden busfahrt zur chinesich-laotischen grenze fuer volle zwei tage stipvisite nicht lohnen. wir merken wohl langsam alle, dass auch das reisen anstrengend werden kann. also... wir sind nun quasi auf dem weg nach laos. nicht zu frueh und nicht zu spaet, genau richtig also. die letzten wochen (wohl eher tage) in china haben wir im sueden verbracht. zuerst guilin, dann yangzhou. einige wenige eindruecke koennt ihr dem ... read more