22/08/2009
The last two weeks have certainly been a "driving" tour of China, and today continued that theme.
Pat was given the go ahead to travel by the doctor this morning as her temperature was a normal 36.5. We had 600km to cover today, which fortunately was on good roads - not all expressway (dual carriageway) but at least the surface was smooth.
We didn't depart until 10:15 and had a one hour delay while we waited for a small landslip to be cleared from a road, so our arrival in Kunming was not until 8pm, followed by an hour and a half to find the hotel and sort out parking. My sister had booked into the same hotel, and we went off to find food at 10pm. After a fruitless search for a restaurant locally we took a taxi to a Lonely Planet recommendation, but when we didn't immediately find it a "pub" was spotted, serving western food. This was a major mistake as the food was mediocre and expensive, and the recommended restaurant was about 50m away. Worst meal ofthe trip so far.
We decided this evening that we would stay in Kunming tomorrow night aswell and use up our final extra day here where there are things to see, and also have a better final meal with Rachael before she flies to Bangkok.
Lat 25 01.55 N
Long 102 42.32 E
Town Kunming
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That seems to be a big town Mark, you must be getting used to driving in unknown towns with signs you can't read..are you using sat nav or is your guide sorting out directions for you?
ReplyDeleteI suspect if you bought a native chinese to the UK they would find our "chinese" restaurants just as bad as you found the pub :-)
Mostly we've been using sat nav (with scanned and calibrated versions of our paper maps) but in China, especially to the north and west the signs are only in Chinese so we relied mostly on Tracy. Her sense of direction isn't brilliant so there were a few times we ignored her when she was clearly taking us the wrong way.
ReplyDeleteTom also has a gps in his phone and has downloaded Nokia maps of most of the countries we are passing through. These have a lot more detail than my scanned maps but with such a small screen you get a very limitd view of the surrounding area.