Forums > Travel Yunnan > 开远 kaiyuan The park is very pretty at night when all the old buildings are lit up with brilliant lights.
I walked north of the city along the old French railroad, through an industrial area, then through a tunnel, and into a very hazy valley full of open pit mines. It wasn't the pleasant experience I'd expected so I have up after one day and hitchhiked back to the main highway with some police who were concerned for me and didn't think it was safe that I was there.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Sichuan steam train Nice article and video essay from The Guardian on a one of the world's last operating steam trains
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/china-steam-train-sichuan
Forums > Living in Kunming > 8 killed, 18 injured in Yunnan construction fracas agree with Annonymous Coward and mike4g_air
this comment as relayed by ChinaSmack about sums it up:
"哪里有压迫,哪里有反抗"
"where there is oppression there will be resistance"
Forums > Food & Drink > Just what exactly is Yunnan cuisine? @Alien
Sorry, Yunnan has a 54.64% forest cover rate, not two-thirds.
Still, that's pretty impressive.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Road from Deqen to Yongping I second what b galipeau said.
Chinese maps have a tendency to show "complete" roads which haven't even begun to be built yet, but are planned for 5 years off in the future!
I tried to do exactly what you are talking about doing last year and got into big trouble, nearly died trying to cross a landslide on the old Mekong road caused by construction of the new road high up on the cliff.
From Weixi north you're fine, but from Weixi south (actually from Baijixun south) the road was still very much under construction when I was there last year, and judging by the state of the work at that time I'd guess it still is.
Further south, in Lanping County, there is also major construction still going on.
Your best bet, if you're trying to get from the far north to the Baoshan area, without taking the main route through Dali, is as follows:
Weixi - Lanping - Yunlong - Yongping
You could also hike over the mountain from Cizhong to Nujiang, then go down the Nujiang to Baoshan
High-speed railway connects Yunnan's remote Lincang County
发布者Wow!
Video: Romance in Kunming's Yunfang and M60
发布者I like how the cover image is New York and not Kunming
Video: Romance in Kunming's Yunfang and M60
发布者In the words of my wife "太无聊了,我看不下去"
Obituary: A Mei, a Yunnan music icon
发布者This is so sad. She will be missed, but her music will live on.
Kunming Metro Line 4 and Line 6 (phase 2) officially in operation
发布者胜利堂 gets translated as "Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall"?
Seriously?
What's wrong with "Victory Hall"?