Kunming Stories


Kunming botanical garden and city

We got up at 8am and had breakfast which was an English breakfast it was ok, but not as good as the ones in the UK. We caught a taxi to The Botanical garden of Kunming which was about 30 minutes away on the edge of the city. It was so far that the taxi driver had to phone one of his friends and ask some locals for directions. Once there we paid to g...


A last impression

I’m in Southern China now, in Kunming to be exact. It’s really a unique city since it has Muslim, Christian and I Buddhist influences at the same time. Officially China is atheist and thus this is quite a contrast to the usual China. It’s my last city in China and I decided to make it worth my while; headed into town directly to check it out and also a...


17 hours on the top bunk

There wasn't really much else to do in Dazhai so I took an overnight sleeper train to Kunming in Yunnan province. To get to the train station I had to first take a bus to Guilin... where I was surrounded by a horde of taxi drivers all wanting to take me somewhere... one actually kept pushing a cell phone to my ear because apparently there was someon...


The Begining of the 5 Week Adventure

Greetings. This is an update of my travels. I have been on the road for over 10 days. Daniel and I flew out of Shenzhen and landed in Yunnan, the provience in the far south west. In Kunming, the captial, we visited the Stone Forest, which was spectactular. We met a guy from U.k who just moved to Kunming to learn Chinese. After a fun night of hanging...