Take but #55 to the old West bus station, get off and walk to the opposite of the street. Walk down the alley you see descending and you'll find a cluster of zhaodaisuo (hostels) serving students, and maybe you. The Think UK apartment complex is next door. I don't know the prices but they can't be too high. Expect simple accomodations.
Richard Dawkins: by reputation, a first-rate geneticist, but a crap historian. At least not a vile cheer-leader for mass-murder in Iraq and Afghanistan, like his competitor, C. Hitchens.
You might also try Bai Yun Tao Bao City, on Bai Yun Lu, a block or so east of the intersection with Bei Jing Lu. It's a couple blocks east of the site of the former huge open air market on Bai Yun Lu. I suspect that about 1/2 the vendors have moved to Tao Bao.
Kunming's reservoirs, rivers drying up
Posted byYet some people still pretend there's no global warming.
Kunming's Qiu He era ends
Posted byI miss the urban villages, with their unique businesses and human scale.
Rising food prices driving inflation across Yunnan
Posted byThat's what happens when you take a lot of farmland out of production. The food has to come from somewhere else and probably costs more.
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
Posted byEverybody has to earn a living somehow and performing at Dwarf Empire probably beats some other things. Don't like it? Don't go.
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
Posted byDwarf martial arts sounds kind of interesting!