Tuesday, April 28, 2009

My trip to Kunming 2006/2007

My second trip to Kunming started JANUARY 2007 as I had2 months break between my contract and I wanted to pass from Kunming go to laos and Vietnam and Burma as well.I had to stop in Kunming as they have consulate and issue the visas as well.

I stayed there for a week and I was hanging around in the arks and visiting stone forest ad enjoying the 17 to 20 c temperature which was amazing.



Kunming is located in South West of China and it is the capital of Yunnan province.It is called as "Spring city "due to mild climate ad enjoy eternal spring ( four Seasons in one).It has been a best destination of trade for so many centuries between Laos ,Vietnam , Burma and China.

The hubs are railroad to Vietnam and air and road paths from Kunming to Burma and Laos.
Kunming as so many other cities in China enjoying or suffering from combination of 2 different( modern and traditional lifestyles).Kunming has quite few nice parks and botanical gardens .
There is a lake calls as Dianchi lake which has so many seagulls from Siberia and it is a great destination for passing the weekend far from the hustle and bustle life and get out of the city.It looks like a glittering pear land has a very clean crystal water.
Stone forest is another attractions which is 80 km far from Kunming and as different type of stones with strange ,unique shapes



When you get into there you will find trees are capture between the stones.There is a legend story which says""There was an orphanage boy who was found by the family of Shepperd and grew up there and fell in love with their daughter and killed the family and runaway to the stone forest and lived happily with his lover afterwards."


There is a Village calls" Ethnic Village" which shows the costumes,tradion , lifestlye ,habits,food ,different kind of Art include(handycrafts and dance,printing,painting and calligraphy)of minorites in China and who are living in Yunan province to us.
aNOTHER ATTRAction in Kunming is Jingming street which worthsstrolling around and find out some cheap carp and bargin as well which is quite fun.

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