30 March is an exciting day. It kick start my 10 days
Kunming-Dali-Lijiang trip in China. It has been long awaiting and pre-book for
9 months. We started to set off from home to airport to this Yunnan province in
China, where renowned as spring city. Spring city get its name from its mild
weather ranging from 2 Celcius to 26 Celcius all year round. Yunnan province
especially Kunming, Dali, Lijiang received many local tourists and Westerner
tourists came here to escape from their own country/province tremendous weather
during summer season and winter season.
We took 7.10am morning AirAsia flight from Johor Bahru to
Kuala Lumpur International Airport KLCC-LCCT. It took around 30 minutes to
reach KLLC LCCT airport. While waiting for the flight from Kuala Lumpur to
Kunming Changshui airport, we rest and ate our lunch noodle at Noodle stall.
The bowl is very big and attracted my eyesight. Surprisingly the noodle inside
the big bowl is pathetically small portion. It’s noodle portion is like the
noodle we normally eat at street hawker, and the noodle taste is so so.
1.10pm is our anticipating timing. We onboard to AirAsia
flight to start our journey for Kunming Dali Lijiang holiday trip. It took us 4
hours to arrive Kunming Changshui airport. We are approved by a local travel
agent to offer transfer service from Changshui airport to Wuhua prefecture
where our pre-book apartment located at RMB120.
It took 40 minutes to reach there. She is nice and politely
(recommended). She is Ms Li and reachable at (0)13908875542. Her travel agency
does provide couch service and tour guide service. My apartment is located at
higher education area where a lot of local universities located there. Due to
lack communication, my apartment located at 6th floors and the fact that all
apartments below 7 storey in China have no lift. The owner do have lower floor
apartment too at the same building too bad were occupied.
The owner is kind enough and uses his own car to bring us to
look for accommodation nearby. The owner Mr Wei Jie is very helpful and
informatics (highly recommended). The place is good and suitable if you are
looking for more quiet location than hustle bustle city to stay and for family.
Mr Wei Jie is reachable at 15368113109 (can use WeiXin). His apartment did
receive Westerner tourists. Those tourists always stay for 2 weeks to 1 month.
The light system inside the apartment staircase is very energy friendly. It
will sense the sound (sound sensitive)to light up the lamp bulb.
For the 3 days in Kunming, we visited Cui Hu (CuiHu Lake),
Yunnan Nationalities Village and Daguanlou.
Cui Hu and Yunnan Nationalities Village are worth to visit, but “Daguanlou”
in my view are not worth to go in my view. We took taxi for RMB 30 from
Daguanlou to Yunnan Nationalities Village with 20 minutes of journey.
Yunnan Nationalities Village entry fee is RMB 90. However you
can buy it at RMB 70 through hotel staff at Kunming Yicheng hotel next to
Yunnan Nationalities Village. Inside Yunnan Nationalities Village have 26 minority
villages. There have performance events everyday as scheduled. Since its inception
at year 1992 Feb, it has display to the tourists the vivid living style of
these minorities in Yunnan, their building structure and architecture, their
customs and cultures, their clothes, religious, and minorities characteristic’s
dance and sing.
Taken area of 1270 acres, Yunnan Nationalities Village is well
known locally and oversea for its cultural theme park. It is China tourism
board designated golden period travel destination. It is also first batch of
China first grade AAAA tourism scenic area.
It is recommended to
visit here since morning. With the performance presented, it can takes up whole
day inside Yunnan Nationalities Village. If not watch all performance and have
more time, you can visit Yunnan Nationalities Museum which is located just
opposite the Yunnan Nationalities Village.
Personal expense:
Johor-Kuala Lumpur by AirAsia: RM 50
Kuala Lumpur – Kunming by AirAsia: RM 400 (9 months book in
advance)
Accommodation: 1 night Apartment: RMB 158 ; 2 nights hotels:
RMB 337
Yunnan Nationalities Village ticket: RMB 70
Airport transfer: RMB 120 ; Internal transportation: RMB10
The fact of Kunming: Due to its location where all year
round’s mild weather within 2 Celcius to 26 Celcius, Kunming is dubbed as
Spring City. It becomes hot spot for local Chinese and Westerner to escape from
tremendous weather from their own country or province during summer season and
winter season. Kunming, Dali and Li Jiang off-peak season are March and April.
Al the apartments below 7 storey in China are within lift
including hotels. However, some hotels which meet the government requirements are
upgraded with lift after applied to government. So you must ask the
receptionist if the hotel have lift unless you don’t mind to take staircase to
go up to your room at 6th floor.
Due to strict restriction and rules enforced by Chine
government to protect foreigner tourists, not all hotels or inn or
accommodation are allowed to rent out to foreigner. So you must careful to
check if the hotel is allowed for foreigner or not when you do the booking. A
lot of complain hotline signboard also printed and display at obvious public
location and inside shops.
The streets at Kunming, Dali, and Li Jiang are clean. Early
4am, the cleaner start to clean up the streets to maintain the street’s cleanliness
for the whole day. The road traffic condition is still quite messy. Many
drivers still not abide to traffic light laws and code of conduct. Since 2012,
government starts to implement point penalty system like Singapore. Total 12
point are given and deducted based on the type of violation drivers have made.
12 point is deducted directly if you drive after drink. The point penalty
system is introduced aimed to reduce the accidents that happen frequently in
the China.
Kunming humidity is low and dry. It will let our lips and
skin easily chapped. We should prepare the body lotion and lip balm in advance
before travel there and apply it when we are there.
The internal transportation fee within the city are cheap,
ranging from RMB 1 without air-con to RMB 2 with air-con. The fee is regardless of how many stops you
are taking, as long as it is within its route.
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