You find yourself on train station in Kunming. You take public bus nr. 73 to the East bus station or Dong Zhan (better yet, take 73 G, because it's direct, and a bit faster). This is where you get buses to the, more or less, south, so, also to Mile. For some reasons, the area is not written about so much. The name itself is a Chinese version of the name Maitreya Buddha – but, according to some stories, the name actually belongs to another person, a local tribal chief who lived there long time ago. The names are written with the same Chinese characters and pronounced the same, but now the chief is forgotten, and people think about Buddha when they say Mile. »This is the place where clouds fell in
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