The larger hotels near Green Lake have travel agencies inside. Several free-standing travel agencies are nearby as well. You don't have to do it on-line.
I usually search for the flights I want on the internet and then go someplace where I can get ticketed face to face.
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am i dreaming to think that i can at least fumble through daily
life without reading or speaking ANY chinese???!!!
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Yes, you are dreaming.
You can live a short time in an akward "foreigner cocoon" while you pick up speed. But if you don't intend to learn Chinese, you'd be better off going somewhere else.
That's halfway to Chengdu. Not real close to Kunming.
It's SOP — standard operating procedure. They are not ripping you off. You need to do what they told you to.
Tonyaod's description (above) of the way it really works is superb: clear and accurate.
I would be very surprised if you are able to find one. Your best bet would be to seek out a TCM doctor 中医 for Tuina. 推拿
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The CNAC exhibit, which is on display now, February 2009, is extremely intersting and well done. Worth a trip. The museum charges no admission and the Number 1 Kunming bus goes there.
Film Review: The Sun Also Rises
Posted byI don't see this film listed as playing now. Has it come and gone, or did you see it as a video release?
New Kunming hospital to spearhead provincial heart health drive
Posted byIs this facility open and operational now, or still in the planning stages?
Interview: Tracking Kunming's trash with Adam Liebman
Posted by>>"does anybody know how these trash pickers are called in chinese?"
It's 收废品 for the people who ride around on the 3-wheel bikes 三轮车 and collect broken appliances. I'm not sure of the term for the smaller-scale "dumpster divers."
Recipe: Frogs carrying slate stones
Posted byThanks, Sabrina. I don't think they are in season yet (in Kunming.) What I'm seeing now in the markets are 毛豆。
Recipe: Frogs carrying slate stones
Posted byAre those 蚕豆？