Shirlin -- Stone Forest

Shilin is a day-trip from Kunming, and is notorious for being tourist filled and crowded. We sprung for a taxi ride to take us the 120 km trip outside of the city instead of taking a 4 hour round trip bus ride. The taxi saved us valuable time, leaving us ahead of the crowds so that we practically had the place to ourselves.

Yunnan Province :: Kunming and Tiger Leaping Gorge

February 20th 2010
Time and travels in Yunnan Province The good ol’ US of A, as we all know, makes regular use of time zones. Excluding Alaska and Hawaii, with their own special place in time, Within the ‘lower 48,’ people operate on four major time zones and all around the world a similar effort has been made to respect the traditional notion usually, but not always, the middle-of-the-sky-ish location of ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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