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Century Yindu Square, Erji Road, Guandu District, Kunming, Yunnan, 650200, China
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Hi,
I am living in Hong Kong (originally from Australia).. I will be visiting Kunming in July (2nd to 6th)
Does anyone have any tips? or even better, would like to meet up and introduce me to the city ?
hope to hear from you,
- Robert.
hey Robert,if only for visiting some famous scene in kunming 2-3 days is enough, but for feeling and experience the local life in kunming, 5 days is not enough.
for the travel information ,you can see the tips in VT.there are a lot.
any question you can contact me by lvhongxia@yahoo.com, that is my yahoo messenger and msn id also
lanny
In the southwest, which includes Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, chillis and huajiaos are something present in almost every dish, except CHICKEN SOUP.
So if you do not like chilis and huajiaos in your food, always ask the waiter if the dish you order is spicy, and request for less spice, or no spcie. The wholesale market at Chenggong is something to see. HUGE, truckloads of veges parked there, and vendors go by "how much per 500 KG".
Now in June, chinese peaches (shui jing tao) RMB 2 per KG are in available abundance.
Especially in April.
Mulberries(about RMB 10 per KG), Kunming cherries (RMB 12 per KG) and pineapples (skin peeled, eyes taken out, about RMB 0.50 to RMB 1 each) are in abundance.
And some pancakes they stick to the wall of a big urn. Much like the indian "naan", the urn that is. Very tasty. You can choose between savoury ones or sweet ones. 50C each.
You will also find locals eat all kinds of veges including: the pumpkin flowers, the young leaves of pumpkin, pumpkin flowers (yellow), and some white flowers which I can't figure out.
It's an experience, and offers plenty of insights to the local cuisines.
In my opinion, this may be useful information, as we surfed the internet before our trip to find out if and when it is possible to go from Kunming to Tibet by air and how long it will take to get the permit, and we read so many different versions that we were quite confused. The only thing that was clear was that it will take at least 3 days to get the permit - which is totally wrong!
Again the Camellia hotel should be one's choice, they now have a more obvious small travel agency in front of the hotel where you can book anything: flights, bus tours, hotels, etc.
Mr. Chen is very efficient and speaks English well. We told him that we would like to go to Lhasa and that we don't want to spend too much time in Kunming as we have already been there before, and he asked if we would like to go the next day! He checked if there were any seats left on the plane next morning and then just said he would have to hurry up now to get the permit! Apparently it's possible to get the permit within half a day, and the next morning he picked us up at our hotel, drove us to the airport and accompanied us as far as he could. I was a little worried because we didn't get any piece of paper, only a stamp on our boarding passes (which we kept with us in Tibet all the time), but obviously this was ok, as we never had any problems. It seems that there are flights to Lhasa every day, they are going via Zhongdian and on our flight there were still many seats available.
One way flight is approximately € 120 - 140.
This is a chain restaurant serving beef noodles.
Fast food setting. People enter, pick their type of noodles, collect their food, sit down and enjoy the rest of the meal.
You can add as much toppings (chopped coriander, chopped spring onion are among the choices) The beef rice noodles are quite some thing. The semi-clear soup has full beefy flavour. And the coriander really makes the whole soup drinkable to the last drop.
Big bowl 4 yuan. Small bowl 3 yuan. Both are actually quite large. So it's really the degree of hunger that matters.
You get a choice of fat or thin noodles.
A short trip out of Kunming takes you to this cool temple. Its a big compound sort of thing with lots of parts to look around. There are a whole army of clay monks of an extremely lifelike quality great architecture and a little waterfall setting out the back. The place atracts a lot of crowds but keep wandering and you may find the smaller compund where there are still active monks living.
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