unfortunately no. A visa is a payable document. If a visa is waived it means you don't need a visa. So for instance, most Europeans don't need a visa for Thailand. That stamp in your passport is not a visa. Because in Suvarnabhumi airport there's a line for visa on arrival (for Chinese, for example) and a line for people who just have a visa waiver (i.e. don't need a visa).
No, that is a visa waiver. A visa on arrival is something that you buy at the port of entry into a country, and it still is a visa and subject to rules and your possible non-eligibility for it. In Vietnam, the only visa on arrivals are currently handed out upon presentation of an invitation letter at one of the country's two main international airports (i.e. Noi Bai in Hanoi or Tan Son Nhat at Ho Chi Minh City).
Still waiting for Belgium to be on the list. Given the level of our cooperation, it's hard to believe we still haven't got visa exemption.
you also can't do it with your normal Chinese bank card. Seems it's just not done here, while in Belgium it was the commonest practice ever, saving you a trip to the ATM.
I'm sure the tuition in Germany is done in English, otherwise your relative may give up hope right away. It will take at least a year of intensive studying for a Chinese to learn German to the level where they can attend a university class.
So, hoping that tuition will be in English, some 3 months of basics should suffice to just get around Germany, buy bread and order beer etc.
do wear sunglasses and walk into stuff on a regular basis if you go with Ray Charles
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First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.
When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.
Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.
The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.
In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.
Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.
Super place. Really cool interior, lots of good beers and drinks, fun toilet inside the telephone booth, and an interesting clientele.
Cons: pretty hard to find, no matching glasses for the imported beers, and home brews need some work.
Teaching and support lamentable.
Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.
While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.
Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.
Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.
One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.
I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.
Heavy rains wreak havoc around Yunnan
Posted bynot the nujiang nor the tiger leaping gorge or any other canyon are safe around this time. massive boulders coming down.
You do wonder how much people here actually learn from experience. I know the climate is usually dry, but the rains are annual. Yet, when it suddenly started raining during my bike trip coming down Changchongshan, we saw three accidents, including a minivan on its head.
Governor: Provincial highway bathrooms China's worst
Posted byMain problem is that people don't know they have to flush. They grew up in a place with only a septic pit so they forget about it. Then no one wants to clean up afterwards and the whole cycle (no pun intended) continues.
So yeah, education.
I think most public facilities in Kunming are actually alright, including the one on wenlin jie. It gets a lot worse on the highways. Although I may want to make an exception for the one nearby Nordica on a bad day.
Hani terraces garner UNESCO status
Posted byThere are just more of them in Yuanyang and further in Lüchun County. Hundreds of kilometres of endless rice terraces, from 200m in altitude to a whopping 2000m. Also the ones south of Shaxi may not be part of an over 1000-years old Hani agricultural tradition.
Granted, if you just want a nice picture, you can go elsewhere.
Hani terraces garner UNESCO status
Posted byDoes that mean that there will now follow some unbridled terrace building and exploiting, even to the furthest mountain tops where the Hani have so far kept their hands off (in keeping with their own legend and pure logic, which says that everything will die if they deforest the mountain tops).
Probably. Sad. Hopefully UNESCO shows a little more guts in this matter than in the case of Lijiang.
20 years in Yunnan with Jim Goodman
Posted byif you argue on the internet, you've already lost. get on topic.