Kunming Travel Blogs

With tears in my eyes and pain ripping through my heart I bid Yangshuo farewell. Okay, I leave Yangshuo. That's that. I'm heading back to Guilin to catch a train to Kunming, a sweet 18 hours away. First up is the one hour busride to Guilin, and that one turns out to be nervewrekcing. Buses leave (…

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) We decided to stick around the hostel for all of the day on New Years Eve and meet some people to go out with that night. We met a few cool people and enjoyed a barbeque and a few beers whilst relaxing round a fire, in th…

A few people had told us how good sleeper buses are, but I can't recall exactly who these "people" were; which is good because if I ever catch up with them ..... I never, ever want to travel by sleeper bus again.  We had decided to give this a try as we couldn't book an overnight train and it…

在昆明郊区也可以玩马术，生活真的很美好！ Also may play the horse-riding in the Kunming suburb, life is really happy!

I know it sounds crazy......, there are tables set up in the zoo for people to play mahjong, and there are many of them playing mahjong in the zoo???? Never heard before?? Cute isn't it??

After a bumpy night on the sleeper bus, we finally reached Kunming, right on schedule.  We got in quite early, at around 7am.    Now, here's where things would get interesting . . . finding our hostel, but better yet, finding someone who could tell us how to get there . . . and in…

在那里有温泉，更可以象鸟儿一样飞行——玩儿滑翔伞。 Has the hot spring in there, may look like the bird same flight, plays the paragliding.

We last wrote from Chengdu (population 10m) which is east of the Tibetan plateau, when were pleased to be back in civilisation. The city is also known for its Panda Breeding Research Institute, which we visited. Cute cuddly giant pandas playing in the enclosures and baby ones in incubators watched …

Before flying over to Kunming this afternoon, we made the quite strenuous climb up Mount Deicai for a fantastic view over Guiling.  It's quite a steep climb with lots of steps, but found a lovely breeze at the top.  Also lots of great Chinglish signs such as "no striding" (ie: don't run) …

After a lovely 9 month vacation I have started working again, the good times had to end eventually. Kindergarten: sit down, stand up, jump, run, happy crazy.... Good fun and lots and laughter and smiles from the kids but after just one day I was exhausted. Unable to walk, climb stairs or even do so…

We flied from Lijiang to Kunming for transfer to HK. We only had few hours so we just walked around the city and went to the Kunming zoo. The zoo was pretty old and the cages for the animals were dirty, some animals were missing too. I think it is not worth to go (the entrance fee is quite expensi…

Went to China, Kunming, Yunnan Province with 16 photographers from various countries, at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture. Spent two weeks photographing the Torch Festival of the Yi People, Stone Forest (Shi Lin) and touring the Yunnan Province.

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Round trip in China, including a week in Tibet. City's visited: Beijing, Xian, Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse, Chengdu, Lijiang, Dali, Kunming, Yangshuo, Hong Kong.

Chengdu-Kunming-Dali-Lijiang-Zhongdian I never have seen anything like this, I absoluty loved it in China and I recommend everybody to go there!!