http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Kunming en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:48:18 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:48:18 BST We arrived in Kunming at about 2pm. Kunming is 1890m above sea level so already you find yourself adjusting to the changes and notice the mild temperature compared with Hong Kong. We negotiated for our taxi at the airport and headed straight to the Camelia Hotel which was the meeting point for our Gap Adventures Southern China Adventure around South West China. Can't say it was the nicest pl http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-295855.html Hejsa alleVi 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 S http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-290233.html 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 exci http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-287491.html Today I went to the western hills just west of Xi'an suprisingly. The views were incrediblewe climbed to the top sat on a chair lift and walked back down visiting the various toaist temples and Bagoda's along the way. It was very nice to be out of the city for a change in a calm and peaceful setting.Sadly Helen couldn't make it as she has caught a stomach bug I imagine this will be the first of http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-284942.html The same day stretches six weeks long waking sleeping itrsquos the same denying routine denying necessity progress change accepting sunlight escaping cold watching an apartment blockrsquos shadow creep up the block like a giant sundial tracking the dayrsquos journey. Ants pass aboard buses crowded into minivans on three wheeled bicycles laden with boxes. Measuring time with qu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-261097.html 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 reali http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-259234.html STONE FORREST Great start as we were leaving the hostel it started to rain... determined not to get on the tourist bus we were left with no other option than get on the minibus and even we have asked if it goes straight to Shilin and were reassured that it does we have made one decoy stop trying to get us buy souvenirs but as we knew what was happening we have stayed in the bus and did not get c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-259223.html TO THE WARMER CLIMATEToday 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 i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-259079.html Hei igjen Naa er vi i Kunming. Har egentlig gjort veldig lite her. Vaert paa byen endel. Mye av grunnen er vel at vi for forste gang har hatt litt varmvaer.De andre har solt seg endel faktisk.Ble saa gira i Chengdu paa fotball saa da jeg kom hit lette jeg straks etter en fotball stadio. Var ikke saa veldig stor bare 3x kapasiteten til Grefsen stadion kanskje. Fikk likevel en fin rundtur i byen http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-253615.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-250490.html Xi Shan or The Western Hills Scenic Area stretches along steep straight up and down cliffs near Kunming. There are giant pines and many ancient temples. Old narrow pathways all built along rising slopes twist around to places surrounded by ancient trees and shrubs. Covered stone corridors connect each pavilion and room so one has the feeling of coming indoors and outdoors again and again. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-249170.html Among the most dramatic scenic attractions we visited on our trip to Yunnan Province was The Stone Forest referred to since the Ming Dynasty 13681644 A.D. as the 'First Wonder of the World.' An old local saying says that 'If you have visited Kunming without seeing the Stone Forest you have wasted your time.' It is true the Stone Forest is definitely one of a kind Approximately 270 millio http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-249135.html Bob and I Brian and Nancy Goeselt and their kids Christian 8 and Hannah 10 and six of our seven Newton students set off on Saturday February 9 for Kunming. Our guide Mike greeted us with a song and delivered us to the hotel which was neither new like everything in Beijing nor fancy but it was clean and more than adequate. In the morning we set off early for the Golden Temple Daoist http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-248948.html so i'm back in kunming. let me quickly get you up to date........i got to dali and breathed a huge sigh of relief. it was so nice to be somewhere familiar and to know that i'd be seeing mickey and other familiar faces really really soon. i checked into a hostel and hit the streets. chris had gone to find somewhere with a single room but i'd decided i wanted to travel a bit more on the cheap than http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-235455.html i am so fucking glad to be back in china it's unbelievable. i nearly kissed the ground after i walked through immigration at the border of vietnam but refrained for obvious hygiene reasons. the last few days in vietnam were somewhat of an ordeal but now i am safely delivered to the fatherland china home of youtiao fried bread sticks and hot doujiang soymilk for breakfast. familiar and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-231612.html The faux leather anorak pulled awkwardly over his hands legs bound with a blue scarf he sat painfully the train swaying from side to side. I couldn't help looking and he craned his head to look at me. I felt someone else's stare and looked up. Two men one small and chubby the other with a long thin shrewd looking stare standing in the gap between the carriages taking a deep toke on his http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-225088.html Toch weer noedel soep..De zonneschijn liet even op zich wachten tijdens onze dagen in Yangshuo. De afgelopen 3 dagen heeft het geregend maar we hebben uiteindelijk het zonnetje terug gevonden hier in Kunming.Na mijn vorige berichtje hebben we eind van de middag een boottocht gemaakt over de rivier. De regen heeft niet opgehouden wat jammer was omdat we nu niet buiten op de boot konden staan. He http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-224793.html Hey everyoneUnfortunately I'm a bit behind on my blog as you may have noticed. As I've now finally finished writing about NZ I'm going to miss out a chunk of October and let you know what I've been up to in November travelling around incredible Tibet.I'll catch up on October when I get a spare hour or two but to summarise we flew into Singapore where we spent two days mainly getting used t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-222021.html We have gotten so behind with our blog Sorry We still have more of China to share with you not to mention our month in Vietnam Wersquore now in Siem Reap Cambodia but here and Vietnam will have to wait for another daySo from the glitz of Hong Kong and Macau we arrived in the small town of Lijiang in the north of the Yunnan province in the southwest of the country. Yunnan offers visito http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-221124.html a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-219351.html It's very surprising to me that all of China has the same music I can go to whatever place I want and sing along to the Chinese and Western music since it's been the same ever since I first moved to China. I thnk it's pretty strange if every place in America had the same type of music people would go on strike. I'm just sitting now listening to the music as I'm waiting for my bus to Jinghong a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-204467.html I was just looking for a restaurant from the Lonely Planet but I didn't find the first one I was looking for so I went to the second one and on the way I found a great looking Korean restaurant but of course every good thing comes with its' bad. When I was eating there was a really loud little girl behind me her parents just ignored her. She made me think of how I know her parents and Cam and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-204466.html On the plane I started to feel really alone there was no one to talk to and nothing to do. I slept for a while but when I woke up I had the urge to talk to someone so I ended up missing Cam a lot. After I got off the plane I went to ask whether or not Camellia Hotel had a bus like it says in the Lonely Planet. Turns out there was no bus but the man put me on a bus going in that direction al http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Kunming/blog-202952.html