Forums > Living in Kunming > Western beggars by Greenlake Now I have seen it all, last night there was a white guy with a young blond girl laying guitar with a sign in Chinese asking for money for a plane ticket home. I have heard about laowai beggars in SH etc but first time in Kunming.
I hope the girl was his.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Train Ticket Booking Office If you book on Ctrip you can book two months in advance, not sure if that is for all trains but it was for a BJ train I was looking to book.
after you book and pay online you need to print and pick your ticket up at a ticket office or train station before you take your train, that costs 5rmb in Kunming.
As a foreigner we could not get our tickets printed at the smaller train ticket offices in town as they were not equipped to deal with passports and had to go to the train station. We printed our tickets for a train leaving from BJ at the Kunming train station.
Forums > Living in Kunming > a English name? I have seen that Qiao Zhi is a common way to translate George. You could use George as your English name.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Getting a cat vaccinated for travel to US The government approved vet place in LongXiang Jie has moved. About ten meters up the street towards WenLin Jie. It looks much cleaner and nicer. It's directly facing the street.
Kunming planning on adding more taxis soon
发布者I was in Qingdao last week, its a popular tourist destination, with a very hilly layout in some ways similar to Kunming, but not only is Qingdao much easier than Kunming to get a taxi, with much better traffic speed, this northern "mountain city" is also building a subway system,,,but unlike Kunming the local government has requested that the construction does not effect traffic, so all construction is being done off to the side of roads.
According to one taxi driver the impact on the every day life of Qingdao citizens is so minimal that many locals dont even know a subway is being built!,,
It is really very interesting to see how different cities in China are managed.
But it was bloody freezing,,something Kunming has under control!
New Kunming airport's first phase nearing completion
发布者For Europe I would say it will most likely be Amsterdam over London or Paris as there are quite a lot of Dutch companies here,,Plus KLM already has the rights for passenger flights KM to Holland, currently KLM is already flying direct to Chengdu from Holland.
New Kunming airport's first phase nearing completion
发布者and I guess Taxi drivers will make a lot of money until the light rail is ready,,2015?
Kunming Mayor Zhang Zulin to serve second term
发布者Its the norm in China when officials are being introduced or presented for a position that the media give all information, name, ethnic group, sex (especially if its a female), place of birth etc
Kunming government worried about drought repeat
发布者but on the other hand if the government needs a lot of raw material for chemical warfare then they have it in Dianchi.