Tag: Kunming
Unexpected Couchsurfing Experience #2
by Tsemer on Feb.12, 2010, under China
Our flight company was called “Lucky Air“. This could not have been a good sign. And indeed, the bus complied with the flight company’s name and was excruciatingly slow.
We could clearly see old ladies pushing wheelchairs faster than our bus.
It left at 09:30 instead of 09:10, and we didn’t like that the clock in the bus was 20 minutes early. Hmm.. Was our bus in the time zone GMT+8:20?
Dali, Longer Than Expected
by Cinnie on Feb.10, 2010, under China
Ok, so… remember Ohad writing about me getting a bit ill on top of the Cangshan Mountains? Well, it turned out that it wasn’t just a little bit, and it wasn’t just me as well. The following night and day, both Ohad and I couldn’t really move without running to the toilet, and we spent the day feeling miserable in bed. We actually somehow managed to sleep (on and off) throughout the entire day!!
The days after that we felt a bit better (with some ups and downs), but we still couldn’t hold down any other food than rice with chicken soup (thank you Knorr bouillonblokjes!). We decided to do the clever thing and NOT go up to Lijiang, but to stay longer in Dali instead. Feeling crappy and all, we still counted ourselves lucky to get sick in such a wonderful place as Dali, so we tried not to feel too sorry for ourselves..
Unexpected Couchsurfing Experience
by Cinnie on Feb.02, 2010, under China
So.. the plan was to catch a bus in Kunming and go directly to Dali. The only thing we’d have liked to do before was buy ourselves some tickets for a train ride 10 days later to Xi’an. We thought it to be a bit early, but because of the spring festival madness we were advised to be as early as possible. We found the train ticket office quite easily and after being re-directed about four times we seemed to have found the right line to be standing in. It took about an hour before we finally got to the ticket window where we got the great news that all the tickets for the coming 10 days were already sold out. What?! Sold out?! Yep. Guess so.. The only thing the ticket guy could sell us was a seating ticket, which somehow seemed not too attractive for a 36 hour train ride. We decided not to get down by this (and hoped for possible train tickets in Dali) and went looking for the bus station that would have rides to Dali.
