Yunnan part 3 - Kunming 1

Kunming

I woke up to a cold morning, it was around +5 in Guangzhou had some breakfast and left the hotel. Getting to Guangzhou’s airport took quite a long time from the down town area. It’s the same, when you come from the south to the Guangzhou South railway station, everything is far away. So I left my hotel early and arrived at the airport well in advance. At the airport everything went quickly and smoothly.

I arrived at Kunming around 15.30 and after walking through a long corridor at the airport, I found the metro quite easily. It was nice and not as crowded as the Guangzhou’s metro the night before and the morning on the way to the airport. I needed to change the lines and also that was quite quick. Not like in Guangzhou or particularly in Shanghai, where you sometimes have to walk a long way when you transit from one line to another.

The problems started when I got off the metro. In my map, the hotel seemed to be only a short distance away from the metro station but I made a mistake and started going around the athletics park where it was located, instead of going through it. I finally arrived at the area, where the hotel was but still had to search for it for a while. When I finally found it, it didn’t look great and when I got in, they said, they can’t have foreigners in this hotel. So I quickly booked another hotel, which was near the railway station where my train to Dali would leave the next morning. I walked back to the metro station, this time through the park and when I got near it, I decided to take a taxi.

It proved to be a good decision although I only understood this better when I came back to Kunming on my way back to Macau. Anyway, it was a long ride because there were quite bad trafic jams but it cost me only about 8€.

The room was nice and on 30th floor with a nice view over the city. It was getting late so I didn’t feel like going anywhere. Just had a meal nearby and bought some refreshments from a supermarket in the same area.