Dali
Location: Dali, Yunnan, China
Local Time: Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 10:39am
Well, it has been a busy couple of days. We left Jinghong Friday evening, and travelled all night by sleeper bus. Don't take the seats at the back of a sleeper bus. There are not separate beds, just 5 bets, each about the width of my shoulders, and about 1.5 feet too short for me. I am not taller than everyone here, so other people must have the same problem.
So, we arrived in Kunming Saturday morning. With a little bit of effort, we figured out which of the five bus stations we had arrived at. We checked out luggage into the Left Luggage counter, and bought tickets for the bus in the evening going to Dali. Or so we thought.
Next, we started out wandering Kunming. We found a great vegetarian restaurant where they make everything look like meat. Of course it doesn't taste like meat, not even close, but it was tasty. We had fried asperigus with mushrooms (at least there were 3 or 4 mushroom slices on the plate), lemon 'chicken', and vegetarian dumplings. The dumplings were especially wonderful.
We lingered in the restaurant sipping tea and staring at the street one floor below us. Kunming has a big air contamination problem. Not so bad as Mexico City (which is a really beautiful place you should go to even with it's little problems), but not good.
Next we started looking for a book store I wanted to find. We walked up to the university area and wandered around until we found it. The university area of Kunming is very internation, with cafes and restaurants with many types of food, as well as many foreigners. Lots of postings for english teachers. If you want to teach english in China, fly into Kunming and start looking for postings.
We started walking back towards the bus station, but we were running out of time, so we caught a south bound bus on Beijing Lu. Luckily it stopped right in front of the train and bus station, so we hopped off, claimed out luggage and went to the bus station.
When we were in the bus station we finally noticed that our tickets were not for a sleeper bus, and did not go to Dali, but to Xiaguan, which is close to Dali. Apparently this happens to many people, and the guidebook warns to be careful, but we weren't careful enough.
At about 11:30pm we arrived in Xiaguan. There we caught a taxi to Dali, and managed to find a room for the night. A hot shower, and off to bed. I slept very well last night.
Local Time: Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 10:39am
Well, it has been a busy couple of days. We left Jinghong Friday evening, and travelled all night by sleeper bus. Don't take the seats at the back of a sleeper bus. There are not separate beds, just 5 bets, each about the width of my shoulders, and about 1.5 feet too short for me. I am not taller than everyone here, so other people must have the same problem.
So, we arrived in Kunming Saturday morning. With a little bit of effort, we figured out which of the five bus stations we had arrived at. We checked out luggage into the Left Luggage counter, and bought tickets for the bus in the evening going to Dali. Or so we thought.
Next, we started out wandering Kunming. We found a great vegetarian restaurant where they make everything look like meat. Of course it doesn't taste like meat, not even close, but it was tasty. We had fried asperigus with mushrooms (at least there were 3 or 4 mushroom slices on the plate), lemon 'chicken', and vegetarian dumplings. The dumplings were especially wonderful.
We lingered in the restaurant sipping tea and staring at the street one floor below us. Kunming has a big air contamination problem. Not so bad as Mexico City (which is a really beautiful place you should go to even with it's little problems), but not good.
Next we started looking for a book store I wanted to find. We walked up to the university area and wandered around until we found it. The university area of Kunming is very internation, with cafes and restaurants with many types of food, as well as many foreigners. Lots of postings for english teachers. If you want to teach english in China, fly into Kunming and start looking for postings.
We started walking back towards the bus station, but we were running out of time, so we caught a south bound bus on Beijing Lu. Luckily it stopped right in front of the train and bus station, so we hopped off, claimed out luggage and went to the bus station.
When we were in the bus station we finally noticed that our tickets were not for a sleeper bus, and did not go to Dali, but to Xiaguan, which is close to Dali. Apparently this happens to many people, and the guidebook warns to be careful, but we weren't careful enough.
At about 11:30pm we arrived in Xiaguan. There we caught a taxi to Dali, and managed to find a room for the night. A hot shower, and off to bed. I slept very well last night.
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