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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Ortlieb or Vaude saddlebags

There are a few outdoor shops around that sell Vaude gear. I would think they would be able to order in some saddle bags if you guarantee you will buy them, but this is China, maybe not.

A quick google search for HK shows ortliebs there: www.ortlieb.de/international/_display.php?country=cn

But you would need to get to HK or get someone to pick up (its a pity I didn't know before hand as I was there 5 days ago and could have gone to the shop to see if they had what you are after). You could contact them and see if they can send them to you, if they have them. Its likely they speak at least a little english!

If you get desperate, there is an outdoor shop near the SW corner of Ren Min Xi Lu and Huan Cheng Xi Lu which has a full touring bike setup in the window (well did a little while ago). This included panniers but I didn't check the brand. That store is a pretty good outdoor store in general actually (for stoves, clothes etc) but is quite expensive.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Hong Kong visas for Chinese

Cool, thanks, I will pass on the info.

I am just amazed you paid for something 400 years ago, that is some serious foresight and how old are you? You must have found the secret of eternal life! What is it???

The paragraph above is a joke, ha haa, I understand what you mean :-)

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Ha haa, Kunmingteacher, you have pedalled a classic global warming misapprehension. To see why, just like understanding climate is complex, you have to read the complex answer as to why, as stated here:www.realclimate.org/[...]

If you think about global warming logically, we are stripping forests at an amazing rate and replacing them with carbon (be it CO2 or methane) producing environments. At the same time we have created machines and electrical systems that pump billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere every year combined with a massive population. Do you think changing the fundamental way a complex system operates will have zero effect? It's like claiming that going from heaps of exercise to zero exercise will have no effect on your health. Dreaming.

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Cheers Geezer, dang, we are going to miss it then. I saw this one was on the 23rd last year so was hoping for similar time.

There is a line on that site you posted that says "Horse races" in Zhongdian for the 12the of June, but thats still a bit early for us, bugger.

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One has to wonder if the real motivation of reintroducing rhinos is because they are running out of horn and need the population to increase in order to get more horns... I bet some poachers are salivating at the picture!

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!