Kunming Videos

Kunming is a pretty nice city.  As already mentioned, the temperature is quite cool - a welcome change of climate for us after Laos and Vietnam. It has lots of nicely laid out park areas throughout the city, and there's miles and miles of shopping streets, huge malls with all the fancy and pricey brands. We also found an area which was more youth/fashion orientated which was interesting. Although the power was out over a few blocks of this area, so the kids were waiting outside stores checking their phones, and the shop assistants were playing cards or majong. Everywhere we go there are those little Chinese toy dogs that look like little dragons. And of course you can smell food being cooked and offered every block. There's some delicious stuff on offer. I had a half doz steamed buns with chicken inside, and dipping sauce for something like 2$ including a drink . We're finding China much cheaper than SE Asia. 

Also of note - all the scooters are electric, great except you cant hear them coming 

so be careful crossing the road ( or the the footpath for that matter as they often take cunning shortcuts). 

On our first evening here, I went for a wander and came across a huge town square, with all manner of outdoor entertainments and recreations taking place. The mass aerobic/dance session was my favourite. Must have been over a hundred people in the circle - old and young. The asian approach to exercise and wellbeing is very different to ours, and from our perspective offers much humourous visual entertainment to our eyes. Also interesting was the outdoor karaoke with some very enthusiastic participants. All good fun. 

China01-KUNMING01 from tgoodwin on Vimeo.