Look for the tennis courts by the parking lot on the south side of the hotel, the gym is just behind the tennis courts. Everytime I go there I meet nice kids in their early 20s that ask if I'm interested in boxing, so I'm guessing that it should be easy to set up lessons or sparring sessions if you want.
It might be worth re-posting this in the forum section of our Sichuan sister site, GoChengdoo (www.gochengdoo.com)... your GoKunming login info is also valid on GoChengdoo, so no need to re-register.
Local media also has links to FB and even Twitter, check out the links at the top of en.kunming.cn/
Sites can get blocked, but like Wikipedia, the NYT, BBC, etc, they can also be unblocked. The fact that nominally state-run media has FB and Twitter accounts suggests a disconnect that may one day be rectified.
French Cafe and Slice of Heaven are both good places to check. I have had some ridiculously rich and rummy chocolate cake at Sandra's. I believe As You Like does lemon cake and carrot cake. Pretty sure The Box, Salvador's, Mazagran and even the Camel Bar's new restaurant should also be able to sort you out.
I'm not sure how far in advance you need to order with any of these places... it might be worth looking into sooner rather than later.
Error corrected, thanks. The English report I cited made a few mistakes in the conversion of Chinese numbering to Western-style numbering, including saying there were 474,000 foreigners living in Yunnan... I mistakenly thought I'd caught them all.
Great show all around... one of the highlights for me was during the aforementioned sound problems, when Sinne decided to finish the second song (I think) without the microphone and nailed it. Janus, JQ and Martin were all in top form too. JQ mentioned that they might pass through Kunming again in half a year or so, I'm sure they'd pack the house again.
I remember an old guy with a monkey that used to take photos with tourists on one of the stone bridges in Dayan several years back, pretty sure that was someone else but I may be wrong.
My favorite Tengchong-style restaurant in Kunming. Their ersi and erkuai are trucked over from Tengchong and are the real deal — Kunming ersi and erkuai do not compare.
The restaurant itself is a bit jumbled, but there are a couple of tables outside in the courtyard that are nice to sit at when the weather's pleasant.
Don't believe them when they say they don't have lufu.
Book Review: China on the Wild Side, Volume II
发布者@laotou: They're 180 yuan each at Mandarin Books... I think I saw them for 110 yuan at the Beichen Prague, but I may be wrong.
Yunnan census results released
发布者Error corrected, thanks. The English report I cited made a few mistakes in the conversion of Chinese numbering to Western-style numbering, including saying there were 474,000 foreigners living in Yunnan... I mistakenly thought I'd caught them all.
Interview: Sinne Eeg
发布者Great show all around... one of the highlights for me was during the aforementioned sound problems, when Sinne decided to finish the second song (I think) without the microphone and nailed it. Janus, JQ and Martin were all in top form too. JQ mentioned that they might pass through Kunming again in half a year or so, I'm sure they'd pack the house again.
Interview: Eddy Di Natale & Lucio Cascavilla
发布者@Giddyup! - Well spotted, it is indeed The Box's bathroom.
Getting Away: Shuhe
发布者I remember an old guy with a monkey that used to take photos with tourists on one of the stone bridges in Dayan several years back, pretty sure that was someone else but I may be wrong.